Illinois State Bar Association releases judicial evaluations for Cook County

These evaluations are for candidates for judicial vacancies in the upcoming general election on Nov. 2, 2010. Click here for these evaluations in printable PDF format. First District – Appellate Court (all ballots) (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Jill K. McNulty)

  • James Epstein HQ

First District Appellate Court (all ballots) (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Denise M. O’Malley)

  • Aurelia Marie Pucinski NQ

First District Appellate Court (all ballots) (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Leslie E. South)

  • Mary Katherine Rochford Q

Cook County Circuit (all ballots) (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Richard B. Berland)

  • William H. Hooks HQ

Cook County Circuit (all ballots) (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Philip L. Bronstein)

  • Terry MacCarthy Q

Cook County Circuit (all ballots) (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Francis J. Dolan)

  • Susan Kennedy Sullivan Q

Cook County Circuit (all ballots) (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Marsha D. Hayes)

  • Raymond W. Mitchell HQ

Cook County Circuit (all ballots) (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Daniel J. Kelley)

  • John Patrick Callahan, Jr. Q

Cook County Circuit (all ballots) (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Carol Pearce McCarthy)

  • Maureen Masterson Pulia R Q
  • Daniel J. Gallagher D Q

Cook County Circuit (all ballots) (to fill the vacancy of Hon. James P. O’Malley)

  • Thomas V. Lyons Q

Cook County Circuit (all ballots) (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Ronald C. Riley)

  • Sandra G. Ramos Q

To find your Subcircuit, check your voter registration card First Subcircuit (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Sharon Johnson Coleman)

  • Thaddeus L. Wilson Q

First Subcircuit (to fill the vacancy of Hon. John O. Steele)

  • Sharon Dolores Oden-Johnson NQ

First Subcircuit (to fill additional Judgeship A)

  • Bonita Coleman-John NQ

Third Subcircuit (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Thomas F. Carmody, Jr.)

  • Allen F. Murphy Q

Third Subcircuit (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Daniel P. Darcy)

  • Edward S. Harmening Q

Third Subcircuit (to fill additional Judgeship A)

  • Daniel Malone HQ

Ninth Subcircuit (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Sandra R. Otaka)

  • Geary W. Kull Q

Ninth Subcircuit (to fill additional Judgeship A)

  • Steven James “Steve” Bernstein Q

Eleventh Subcircuit (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Barbara Ann Riley)

  • Ann Finley Collins Q

Fourteenth Subcircuit (to fill additional Judgeship A)

  • Daniel J. Pierce Q

Fifteenth Subcircuit (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Marcella C. Lipinski)

  • Linzey D. Jones HQ

Fifteenth Subcircuit (to fill the vacancy of Hon. Thomas Paul Panichi)

  • George F. Scully Q

Fifteenth Subcircuit (to fill the vacancy of Hon. William Michael Phelan)

  • John C. Griffin Q

Key to Ratings WQ-Well Qualified Q-Qualified HQ-Highly Qualified NQ-Not Qualified Candidates for Judicial Retention Should This Judge Be Retained? SUPREME COURT – FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

  • Charles E. Freeman Yes
  • Thomas R. Fitzgerald Yes

APPELLATE COURT – FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

  • Joseph Gordon Yes
  • Shelvin Louise Marie Hall Yes

COOK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT

  • Sophia H. Hall Yes
  • Irwin J. Solganick Yes
  • Alexander P. White Yes
  • Donald J. O’Brien, Jr. Yes
  • Vincent M. Gaughan Yes
  • William D. Maddux Yes
  • Robert W. Bertucci Yes
  • Richard J. Billik, Jr. Yes
  • Jennifer Duncan-Brice Yes
  • Thomas M. Davy Yes
  • David Delgado Yes
  • Deborah M. Dooling Yes
  • Timothy C. Evans Yes
  • Allen S. Goldberg Yes
  • Susan Ruscitti Grussel Yes
  • Cheyrl D. Ingram Yes
  • Raymond L. Jagielski Yes
  • Dorothy F. Jones No
  • Daniel E. Jordan Yes
  • Carol A. Kelly Yes
  • Bertina E. Lampkin Yes
  • Jeffrey Lawrence No
  • William O. Maki Yes
  • William D. O’Neal No
  • Robert J. Quinn Yes
  • Leida J. Gonzalez Santiago Yes
  • Daniel J. Sullivan Yes
  • Sharon Marie Sullivan Yes
  • Susan F. Zwick Yes
  • Susan J. McDunn No
  • James P. McCarthy Yes

Should This Judge Be Retained? COOK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT

  • Paul P. Biebel, Jr. Yes
  • Nancy J. Arnold Yes
  • Arnette R. Hubbard Yes
  • Thomas Lee Hogan Yes
  • Nicholas R. Ford Yes
  • Charles P. Burns Yes
  • Thomas P. Fecarotta, Jr. Yes
  • Denise Kathleen Filan Yes
  • LaQuietta J. Hardy-Campbell Yes
  • Nathaniel R. Howse, Jr. Yes
  • John Patrick Kirby Yes
  • Diane Joan Larsen Yes
  • Daniel Joseph Lynch Yes
  • Kathleen Mary Pantle Yes
  • Kevin Michael Sheehan Yes
  • Paul Stralka Yes
  • John D. Turner, Jr. Yes
  • LeRoy K. Martin, Jr. Yes
  • Paula Marie Daleo Yes
  • Laurence J. Dunford Yes
  • Robert Balanoff Yes
  • Jeanne R. Cleveland Bernstein Yes
  • Kathleen Marie Burke Yes
  • Kay Marie Hanlon Yes
  • Michelle D. Jordan Yes
  • Thomas J. Kelley Yes
  • William J. Kunkle Yes
  • Clare Elizabeth McWilliams Yes
  • Mary Lane Mikva Yes
  • Patrick T. Murphy No
  • Timothy Patrick Murphy Yes
  • Sheryl Ann Pethers Yes
  • Jim Ryan No
  • Edward “Ed” Washington, II Yes

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Posted on September 22, 2010 by Chris Bonjean

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