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He served as an assistant public defender in the Office of the Cook County Public Defender from 1991 to 2003, where he represented indigent individuals in both civil and criminal proceedings. From 2003 to 2014, he served as an associate judge on Cook County Circuit Court, a state trial court of general jurisdiction based in Chicago. [2] [3]
The number of public defenders, their salary and other issues related to public defenders have been controversial. Eric Holder , the United States Attorney General in 2013, phrased the current issues of the public defender system as a state of crisis and saw the current system as a failure to uphold the Sixth Amendment as well as Gideon. [ 39 ]
The Illinois Courts Commission, composed of one Supreme Court justice, two Appellate Court judges, two circuit court judges and two citizens, has the authority after notice and public hearing to remove from office, suspend without pay, censure or reprimand any member of the judiciary for willful misconduct in office, persistent failure to ...
The Illinois circuit courts are ... to serve or resume office. The circuit court also shares ... Circuit by Public Act 97-0585. The circuit came into effect on ...
Ocasio joined the bar in 1989, and spent four years as a public defender in criminal cases. He left his job as a public defender to run the Illinois Attorney General's regional consumer fraud office in Chicago. Eight years later he would return to the public defender's office, where he supervised 18 other lawyers.
Lisa Holder White (born 1968) is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court since July 2022. She previously served as a judge of the Illinois Fourth District Appellate Court from 2013 to 2022, and as a trial judge in the Illinois Sixth Judicial Circuit Court from 2001 to 2013. She is the first Black woman to be ...
Shadid was in private practice from 1983 to 2001, additionally acting as part-time public defender in Peoria County from 1986 to 2001 and a commissioner of the Illinois Court of Claims from 1996 to 2001. [4] In December 2001, Shadid was appointed to the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Illinois. [6]
Judge of the Circuit Court of Illinois for the 20th Judicial Circuit; In office July 1, 2013 – September 18, 2020: Appointed by: Supreme Court of Illinois: Preceded by: Michael N. Cook: Succeeded by: L. Dominic Kujawa, Jr. In office September 2010 – December 2012: Appointed by: Supreme Court of Illinois: Preceded by: Michael O'Malley ...