Alliance releases ratings for Cook County judges seeking retention

There are some "holes" in the grids that follow. Joyce Williams, the Administrator of the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening, cautioned that readers should remember "that evaluations are on-going" and that readers should not take the absence of a rating (a hole in the grids) "to mean that the final rating will be negative. The investigators and evaluators volunteer their time and efforts to ensure competent individuals will be elected to the county’s courts."

Williams also asked readers to "remember that the ratings from the Alliance member bars are 'advisory'; they are not endorsements and are not intended to be viewed as such."

With that preface, then, herewith the current Alliance grids for Cook County judges seeking retention (click to enlarge or clarify any image):

The Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening is comprised of the Arab American Bar Association (AABAR), the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Chicago Area (AABA), the Black Men Lawyers’ Association (BMLA), the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago (BWLA), the Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL), the Cook County Bar Association (CCBA), the Decalogue Society of Lawyers (DSL), the Hellenic Bar Association of Illinois (HBA), the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois (HLAI), the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association (LAGBAC), the Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA), and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI), all working collaboratively to improve the process of screening judicial candidates in Cook County, Illinois.