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Bar Association of Chicago, Puerto Rican Bar Association, and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois. The Council, in addition to participating in the evaluation process with the Alliance, also utilized the research conducted by the Judicial Performance Commission of Cook County (JPC). The JPC does not evaluate judges for the purpose of ...
The Cook County Bar Association (CCBA), the nation's oldest association of African-American lawyers and judges, was founded in Illinois in 1914. Arkansas attorney Lloyd G. Wheeler, [1] moved to Illinois in 1869 to practice law and he, along with 31 other Black lawyers, began to meet informally to plan protests against discrimination in hotels, theaters, and restaurants, and to address judicial ...
Cecil A. Partee: [62] First African American male to serve as the State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois; James K. Chelos: [10] [11] First Greek American male elected as a judge in Cook County, Illinois (1952) James Benton Parsons (1949): [34] [35] First African American male to serve as a Judge of the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois ...
Theis became a judge in 1983, serving as an associate judge in the Cook County Circuit Court from 1983 to 1988, a full judge in the circuit court from 1988 to 1994, and state appellate court judge from 1993 to 2010. [5] From December 1997 until December 1998, Theis additionally served as president of the Illinois Judges Association. [6]
CHICAGO - The Republican candidate for Cook County state's attorney, Bob Fioretti, is considered an underdog against the Democratic favorite, retired judge Eileen O'Neill Burke.. But on Monday ...
(The Center Square) – Cook County is at No. 6 on the Americans for Tort Reform Judicial Hellholes list. ATR has been publishing the annual Judicial Hellholes list for more than 20 years.
A Cook County judge who controversially banned a law clerk from the county’s main courthouse for using a cellphone in her courtroom will undergo training and mentoring, officials said. The order ...
Pamela Leeming: [31] [81] First Pakistani American female to serve as an Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County (2009) Jessica Arong O’Brien: [36] [37] First Filipino American (female) judge in Cook County, Illinois (2012) Anita Alvarez: [82] First Hispanic American female elected as the State's Attorney for Cook County, Illinois ...