Illinois State Bar Association election ballots must be returned by Wednesday, May 10, to either the Illinois Bar Center in Springfield or the ISBA Chicago Regional Office.

Ballots that were mailed early this month include a statewide third vice president contest between two candidates: John G. O'Brien of Arlington Heights, a member of the ISBA Board of Governors, and Prof. Mark E. Wojcik of The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, past chair of the International and Immigration Law Section Council.

The winner will become ISBA president in 2009.

There are four candidates for one Cook County vacancy on the Board of Governors. They are Patrice Ball-Reed, Paula H. Holderman and Letitia Spunar-Sheats of Chicago, and Mauro Glorioso of Westchester.

A contested board election also is on ballots for Area I (18th Circuit, DuPage County). Incumbent governor Richard D. Felice of Wheaton is challenged by Steven B. Levy of Naperville.

Election candidates for five other board seats are uncontested, and they are therefore elected pursuant to policies and procedures.

They are current board members Kim E. Presbrey of Aurora, incumbent in Area III (12th, 13th, 16th, 21st Circuits), and Dennis J. Orsey of Granite City, incumbent in Area VIII (3rd, 20th Circuits); Anita M. DeCarlo of Chicago, Cook County Under Age 37; Elizabeth L. Jensen of Peoria, in Area IV (10th, 14th, 15th Circuits), and Carl L. Draper of Springfield, in Area VI (7th, 8th, 9th Circuits).

There are 28 candidates for 23 Cook County seats on the ISBA Assembly.