ISBA elections, board appointments fill Assembly seats

 

ISBA Assembly elections were conducted this year for 88 seats in the judicial circuits outside of Cook County. In some circuits, insufficient numbers of candidates filed, so the vacancies were filled May 18 by the Board of Governors.

In addition, 39 of the 88 Cook County seats were up for election, and additional vacancies were created by the elections of Russell W. Hartigan and Mark E. Wojcik to the Board of Governors.

Following are the names of all ISBA members elected or appointed to the Assembly in May.

1st Circuit – Rhett T. Barke and Carey C. Gill of Carbondale.

2nd Circuit – Jon J. Racklin of Olney

3rd Circuit – Christopher J. T. Bauer of Greenville, and Jennifer A. Shaw, Christopher P. Threlkeld and Scott Turner of Edwardsville.

4th Circuit – William W. Austin of Effingham and Daniel W. Austin of Taylorville.

5th Circuit – Brian L. Bower and Barbara L. Delanois of Danville.

6th Circuit – Darrel F. Parish of Decatur, John T. Phipps of Champaign, and Michael P. McCuskey, Bradford J. Peterson and John E. Thies of Urbana.

7th Circuit – Jennifer M. Ascher, Paul Bown, James W. Chipman, Raylene DeWitte Grischow, Timothy J. Londrigan and April G. Troemper of Springfield.

8th Circuit – Nolan Lipsky of Petersburg.

9th Circuit – Jeremy Stewart Karlin of Galesburg.

10th Circuit – Susan Dawson-Tibbits, Donald R. Jackson, Phillip B. Lenzini, Sonni Choi Williams and Richard W. Zuckerman of Peoria.

11th Circuit – Scott D. Drazewski, Don C. Hammer, Thomas M. Harris Jr. and Robert Varney of Bloomington.

12th Circuit – Jeff Allen of Shorewood, and Eric P. Hanson, Edward J. Jarot Jr. and Barbara N. Petrungaro of Joliet.

13th Circuit – Herbert J. Klein and Rebecca Leynaud of Peru.

14th Circuit – Robert H. Alvine and Curtis L. Trevor of Moline, and Robert T. Park of Rock Island.

15th Circuit – Edward J. Mitchell of Lanark.

16th Circuit – Peter J. Flowers and Douglas B. Warlick of Geneva, Philip J. Lengle of South Elgin, Rory T. Weiler of St. Charles, and Heather M. Fritsch, Mary F. Petruchius and Richard L. Turner Jr. of Sycamore.

17th Circuit – Cheri A. Greenlee, John J. Holevas, Margaret L. Kreitlow and Donald P. Shriver of Rockford.

18th Circuit – Steven B. Bashaw of Lisle, Kimberly A. Davis and Michael C. Wiedel of Downers Grove, Thomas A. Else of Oak Brook, Glenn R. Gaffney of Glendale Heights, James Reichardt of Villa Park, Fred Spitzzeri of Naperville, and Joseph M. Beck, Brenda M. Carroll, Neal W. Cerne, Kent A. Gaertner, Connie R. Gessner, Mary E. McSwain, Donald J. Ramsell and Thomas F. Sullivan Jr. of Wheaton.

19th Circuit – Gretchen E. Fisher and Gary L. Schlesinger of Libertyville, Joann M. Fratianni of Lake Forest, and Deborah L. Goldberg, Kevin M. Kane, Torrie M. Newsome, Tara H. Ori, Mark W. Simons, Perry S. Smith Jr. and Nancy S. Waites of Waukegan.

20th Circuit – Donald J. Bingham of Pinckneyville, David Cates of Swansea, and Jamie L. Bas, Brendan F. Kelly and Robert C. Nelson of Belleville.

21st Circuit – James L. Tungate of Watseka.

22nd Circuit – Michael J. Chmiel of Woodstock, H. Case Ellis of Crystal Lake and Robert C. “TJ” Thurston of Huntley.

Cook County – Sandra M. Blake of Oak Park, John L. Fioti of Bartlett, Michael T. Huguelet of Orland Park, Julia Jensen Smolka of Park Ridge, and the following from Chicago:

Kimberly J. Anderson, Gina M. Arquilla, Dennis J. Beninato, Scott A. Blumenshine, Gawain Charlton-Perrin, Marisa T. Cipolla, Umberto S. Davi, Karen A. Enright, Michael V. Favia, Gail T. Friedman, Joseph M. Gagliardo, Robert L. Gamrath;

Kelley A. Gandurski, Gregg A. Garafalo, Leslie A. Hairston, Robert H. Hanaford, Stephen G. Kehoe, Pamela J. Kuzniar, James S. LasCola, Brian P. Liston, Adela C. Lucchesi, Bryan P. Lynch, Mary L. Milano, Daniel E. O'Brien, Robert T. Oleszkiewicz;

Kevin E. O'Reilly, Patrick J. Quinn, Jeanne M. Reynolds, Marni E. Richman, Phillip J. Salerno II, Andrea M. Schleifer, Julie Ann Sebastian, Alon Stein, Ava M. George Stewart, Kevin T. Veugeler and Zeophus J. Williams.

Representatives of four law schools were elected to law student seats on the Assembly:

Robert B. Anderson of Chicago-Kent College of Law, Corey Leatherman of The John Marshall Law School, Joshua R. Traeger of the Loyola University School of Law, and Deborah A. Hilst of the Northern Illinois University College of Law.