Two McHenry County lawyers won’t have to worry about keeping an office open after McHenry County Circuit Judges vote who should be appointed to two new Associate Judgeships resulting from local population growth.
At a salary of over $171,000, it’s not hard to understand why.
The following press release is from Chief Judge Michael J. Sullivan. [When originally posted, page two of the press release was missed. It contained the names of four Assistant State’s Attorneys in three counties:
McHenry:
- William P. Stanton
- Demetrios P. Tsilimigras
Winnebago:
- Tiffany E. Davis
Cook:
- Mary E. McClellan.
Their names have been added to the alphabetized list.]
The prospective judges are
- Neil O. Anderson of Spring Grove
- Michael T. Bartlett of Lake in the Hills
- William (Randy) R. Baudin of Prairie Grove
- Joel D. Berg of Harvard
- William J. Bligh of Crystal Lake
- Michael E. Coppedge of Crystal Lake
- Kevin G. Costello of Crystal Lake
- Tiffany E. Davis of Woodstock
- Mark R. Facchini of Crystal Lake
- Robert W. Fetzner of Crystal Lake
- Raymond M. Flavin of Woodstock
- Camille A. Goodwin of Woodstock
- Joseph Gottemoller of Crystal Lake
- Robert L. Gray of Crystal Lake
- Robert H. Jackson of Crystal Lake
- Richard C. Kelly of Crystal Lake
- Cynthia D. Lamb of Crystal Lake
- James K. McBride of Johnsburg
- Mary E. McClellan of Holiday Hills
- David R. Missimer of Woodstock
- George A. Mueller of Crystal Lake
- Howard J. Rigsby of Woodstock
- Cynthia A. Schaupp of Algonquin
- Jennifer Siegler of Crystal Lake
- William P. Stanton of Crystal Lake
- Henry H. Sugden, III, of Woodstock
- Demetrios P. Tsilimigras of Cary
- Norman D. Vinton of Crystal Lake
- Marjorie L Worth of McHenry
If appointed, Fetzner would have to resign his D47 School Board seat , right?
You can view the current Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Judges and Associate Judges here.
http://www.state.il.us/court/circuitcourt/CircuitCourtJudges/Judges.asp#22nd
Here is the application form for the Associate Judge position. It gives some clues as to what criteria may be used to select the judge. Can the completed application form of the winning candidates be FOIA’d? Obviously redacting confidential private information such as social security number.
http://www.state.il.us/court/Administrative/Forms/Assoc_Judge/Assoc_Judge.pdf
Here are the rules about appointing an Associate Judge.
http://www.state.il.us/court/SupremeCourt/Rules/Art_I/ArtI.htm#39
Here’s the best job descriptions I could find for an Associate Judge in Illinois.
http://www.state.il.us/court/Kids/IL_Jud/Circuit.asp
http://www.ehow.com/info_11414901_much-money-associate-judges-make-illinois.html
The latter link refers to an October 2010 article from the Illinois Policy Institute claiming the Illinois judiciary is the 2nd highest paying in the country.
Not one single Hispanic name on the list.
A lot of people have fantasy football picks, I do fantasy associate judge picks:
My picks in no particular order are
William P. Stanton of Crystal Lake
William J. Bligh of Crystal Lake
Michael E. Coppage of Crystal Lake
Henry H. Sugden, III, of Woodstock
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Strong second tier picks:
Camille A. Goodwin of Woodstock
Joseph Gottemoller of Crystal Lake
Robert W. Fetzner of Crystal Lake
BTW Coppage, is spelled Coppedge
Correction make. Wish Judge Sullivan had made the press release so I could have copied and pasted.