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Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County (pre-1964 reorganization) (10 P) Pages in category "Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
Cecil A. Partee: [63] First African American male to serve as the State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois; James K. Chelos: [10] [11] First Greek American male elected as a judge in Cook County, Illinois (1952) James Benton Parsons (1949): [36] [37] First African American male to serve as a Judge of the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois ...
Pages in category "Judges of the Superior Court of Cook County" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 25 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 ...
(In the Circuit Court of Cook County, which contains Chicago and is the largest of the 24 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 are appointed by circuit judges, under Supreme Court rules, for four-year terms. An ...
Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County (1 C, 41 P) Pages in category "Circuit Court of Cook County" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
A Cook County Circuit Court courthouse in Rolling Meadows. The Illinois circuit courts are trial courts of original jurisdiction. There are 24 judicial circuits in the state, each comprising one or more of Illinois' 102 counties. [1] [2] Six circuits comprise solely of a single county; these are Cook, Kane, Will, DuPage, Lake, and McHenry. [3]
Richard Jones Hamilton, First Circuit Court Clerk of Cook County, 1831–1841. On January 1, 1964, the circuit courts of Cook County were unified. [1] Before this, there were more than 200 separate courts in Cook County. [1] In its unified form, it now had a single, popularly elected, clerk of court. [1]