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Albert B. George: [7] [8] First African American male judge in Illinois (1924) Bernard P. Barasa: [9] First Italian American male judge in Illinois (c. 1920s) James K. Chelos: [10] [11] [12] First Greek American male judge in Illinois (1952) David Cerda: [13] First Latino American male judge in Illinois (1965) and serve on the Illinois ...
There are two kinds of judges in the circuit court: circuit judges and associate judges. Circuit judges are elected for six years, may be retained by voters for additional six-year terms, and can hear any kind of case. Circuit judges are elected on a circuit-wide, or "at-large", basis or from the county or sub-circuit where they reside ...
County elected offices in Illinois include seats on the county board and the offices of sheriff, coroner, circuit clerk (for the courts), county clerk (for the county government), state's attorney, and treasurer. Counties of 60,000 or more have a recorder of deeds separate from the country clerk.
For decades thereafter, the office served not only as the Circuit Court's clerk, but also served as the ex-officio county recorder of deeds. [2] This ended in 1872, when the county's recorder of deeds was again created as a separate office. [2] On January 1, 1964, the more than 200 courts of Cook County were unified. [3]
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The circuit clerk race is for a two-year unexpired term because former St. Clair County Circuit Clerk Kahalah A. Clay resigned last year to take a job as the chief legal counsel for the Illinois ...
To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge. A vacancy is filled by the judge highest in seniority among the group of qualified judges. The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first.
CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man’s rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the bench after a judicial oversight body found he ...