The following list of offices in the Illinois State Bar Association are to be filled by the 2022 annual election.
- 1 – Office of Third Vice-President (Cook County)
- 10 – Seats on the Board of Governors
- 132 – Seats on the Assembly Cook and Downstate
For Third Vice-President – Cook County – 1 to be elected
No incumbent*
For Board of Governors
Cook County – 5 to be elected
Incumbents:
Area 2 (Circuits 17, 19 and 22) – 1 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Tamika R. Walker
Area 5 (Circuits 5, 6, and 11) – 1 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Mark C. Palmer
Area 7 (Circuits 1, 2 and 4) – 1 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Ted Graham, Jr.****
Under Age 37 – Outside of Cook County (Circuits 1-23) – 1 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Diana Taylor
Under Age 37 –Cook County – 1 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Daniel Saeedi***
For Assembly
Circuit 1 – 2 to be elected
Incumbents:
- Tambra Cain**
- Megan Orso
Circuit 2 – 2 to be elected
Incumbents:
- Morris Harvey
- James M. Ruppert**
- Jennifer L. Thompson
Circuit 3 – 4 to be elected
Incumbents:
- Melissa Greathouse
- Jo Anna Pollock
- Jennifer Shaw**
Circuit 4 – 2 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Dennis Berkbigler**
Circuit 5 – 1 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Kaylan Huber
Circuit 6 – 5 to be elected
Incumbents:
- Keith Fruehling
- Sally Kolb
- Brian McPheters
- Shane M. Mendenhall
- Bridget Schott
Circuit 7 – 5 to be elected
Incumbents:
Circuit 8 – 1 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Natalie L. Oswald**
Circuit 9 – 1 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Emily Sutton**
Circuit 10 – 4 to be elected
Incumbents:
Circuit 11 – 3 to be elected
Incumbents:
Circuit 12 – 5 to be elected
Incumbents:
Circuit 13 – 2 to be elected
Incumbents:
- Douglas B. Olivero
- James T. Reilly**
Circuit 14 – 3 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Jennifer L. Kincaid**
Circuit 15 – 1 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Vacant
Circuit 16 – 5 to be elected
Incumbents:
- Deborah Lang
- Lisa M. Nyuli**
- Susan W. Rogaliner
- Colleen G. Thomas
Circuit 17 – 4 to be elected
Incumbents:
- Susan Goldberg
- John J. Holevas
- Mark Rouleau
- Donald L. Shriver
Circuit 18 – 16 to be elected
Incumbents:
- Robert Bahr Anderson**
- Robert J. Anderson
- Joseph Beck**
- Lee Ann Conti
- J. Amber Drew
- Raleigh Kalbfleisch
- Stacey McCullough
- Brian R. McKillip
- Donald Ramsell
- Marissa N. Spencer
- Angel M. Traub
- Richard J. Veenstra**
- Marc D. Wolfe**
Circuit 19 – 11 to be elected
Incumbents:
- Graham Jeep
- Markham Jeep
- Lindsay Roalfs**
- Michael Strauss
Circuit 20 – 5 to be elected
Incumbents:
- Thomas J. Hunter
- John O’Gara
- Kristin Olson
- Tom Speedie
Circuit 21 – 1 to be elected
Incumbent:
- Vacant
Circuit 22 – 3 to be elected
Incumbents:
Circuit 23 – 2 to be elected
Incumbents:
- Mary F. Petruchius**
- Richard Turner
Cook County – 44 to be elected
Incumbents:
- John Bailen**
- Maria Barreiro
- Michael G. Bergmann**
- Dan Breen**
- Bianca Brown
- Edward J. Burt**
- Robert H. Butzow
- Tomas Cabrera
- Leonora Carlson
- Anita M. DeCarlo
- Gerardo Julian Delgado
- Al Durkin
- Karen McNulty Enright**
- Robert Fioretti
- Brian E. Fliflet
- Mitch Friedman
- Judson M. Graham**
- Russell W. Hartigan
- Kristen Hudson
- Anthony Iosco**
- Jennifer P. Irmen**
- David J. Kupiec
- Brian LaCien**
- Samuel Levine**
- Lisa Longo
- Marilyn Longwell
- Kenneth M. Lubinski
- Jameika Mangum
- Kenneth Matuszewski
- Mary L. Milano**
- Dina Ninfo**
- Katherine Amari O’Dell**
- Maureen Pikarski**
- Ashonta Rice
- Andrea Schleifer
- Letitia Spunar-Sheats
- Mario Sullivan
- Carlos Vera
- Edward John Wasilewski
- Cory White
Nomination
Members who wish to be candidates for office must reside in the proper geographic jurisdiction, must meet other requirements for a particular office, and must be in good standing with the ISBA at the close of the nominating period.
Voting Address
Bylaws Sec. 1.11 reads: For purposes of voting and candidacy for ISBA elected office, a member’s voting address shall be their primary legal office as designated by the member. If a member’s primary legal office is not within the State of Illinois, such member may designate their Illinois residence as their voting address; if no voting address is designated, the member shall be considered a non-resident member.
Nominating Petitions
Given the current Covid-19 pandemic and associated restrictions on in-person gatherings, the opportunity and ability of candidates seeking ISBA elective office to collect and submit nominating petitions with original signatures has become materially impacted. In accordance with paragraph 3.4 of the ISBA’s Policies and Procedures on Association Elections, the ISBA Executive Director, with the approval of the Bar Elections Supervision Committee, is taking the following necessary and reasonable actions to ensure a timely 2022 ISBA election: (1) nominating petitions will be entirely electronic via the ISBA website; (2) candidates must generate a nominating petition on the ISBA website using the form provided; (3) beginning on or about November 1 members will be able to view and “sign” (via electronic assent on the ISBA website) all available nominating petitions for whom they are eligible to sign; and (4) the number of required nominating petition signatures remains the same as set forth in the Policies and Procedures Association Elections. Nominating petitions will be available for candidate generation on or about October 1, 2021 on the Petitions page.
Acceptance Period
Nominating petitions can be signed no earlier than October 1, 2021, and no later than 4:30 p.m. on Monday, January 31, 2022. Candidates will be updated weekly on the number of signatories on their petition. At the close of the acceptance period, all ballot positions will be determined by lot amongst all the candidates for the same office.
The ISBA Bylaws and Policy and Procedures on Association Elections, and additional pertinent information, may be found on the ISBA website on the ISBA Elections page.
Voting
All members of the Association in good standing (except non-lawyer members) are eligible to vote for the office of third vice-president. Eligible members residing in the areas in which there are contested elections may vote in the appropriate Board of Governors and Assembly race.
The 2022 Election will be conducted by electronic voting. Paper ballots will be utilized in some instances. Full details on the voting process will be provided to the full active membership well in advance of the formal election.
October 2021
Robert E. Craghead
Executive Director
By policy, a member’s dues must be paid by March 1, 2022, for the period ending June 30, 2022, to be eligible to vote in ISBA Elections.
* Under the bylaws the third vice-president automatically succeeds to the office of second vice-president; therefore, there is no incumbent for this office.
** Ineligible to succeed due to term limitations.
*** Ineligible to succeed due to age limitations.
**** Ineligible to run in Board Area 7 due to address change.