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Circuit judges are elected on a circuit-wide basis or from the county where they reside. In the Circuit Court of Cook County, which contains Chicago and is the largest of the 22 circuits in Illinois, circuit judges are elected from the entire county or as resident judges from each of the fifteen subcircuits within the county. Associate judges ...
There are 25 judicial circuits in the state, each comprising one or more of Illinois' 102 counties. The jurisdiction of seven of these circuits courts are solely within the confines of a single county; these are Cook, Kane, Will, DuPage, Lake, McHenry (all Chicago metropolitan area counties), and St. Clair in Metro East.
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 ...
University of Illinois (BS) University of Iowa (JD) Rita B. Garman (born November 19, 1943) is a former American judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois. She represented the Fourth Judicial District on the Supreme Court. She was elected by her peers to serve a three-year term as chief justice from October 26, 2013, to ...
Daley Center is the central courthouse, and one of six courthouses for the County One of the Circuit Court's courthouses. The Circuit Court of Cook County is the largest of the 24 circuit courts (trial courts of original and general jurisdiction) in the judiciary of Illinois as well as one of the largest unified court systems in the United States – second only in size to the Superior Court ...
Illinois Appellate Court. The Illinois Appellate Court is the court of first appeal for civil and criminal cases rising in the Illinois Circuit Courts. In Illinois, litigants generally have a right to first appeal from final decisions or judgements of the circuit court. Three Illinois Appellate Court judges hear each case and the concurrence of ...
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 ...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts: The court is based at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse in Richmond, Virginia.