From the McHenry County Circuit Court:
JUDGES WILL TAKE ON NEW CALLS UPON JUDGE COWLIN’S RETIREMENT
In anticipation of the retirement of Circuit Judge James S. Cowlin on January 30, 2024, Chief Judge Michael J. Chmiel has entered an Administrative Order to further address the looming vacancy in the judicial roster of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit.
“We continue to be all-hands-on-deck at the Judicial Center,” says Chmiel who entered Administrative Order No. 2023-22 on December 28, 2023, to address the vacancy being created through Cowlin’s retirement.
“This year has posed great administrative challenges starting with the temporary loss of a judgeship early in the year due to a quirk in the law, the passing of a judge, the unanticipated retirement of now two judges, and changes in the law.
“Our team continues to rise to meet these challenges, which is expected of the good people we have who work to meet the ever-evolving needs of McHenry County.”
Associate Judge Jennifer L. Johnson will take on the “Criminal I Misdemeanor Jury Call” in Courtroom 301 in the Criminal Division while also continuing to serve as the primary back up for the judges in the Problem-Solving Court Division.
After helping the Circuit develop new Alternative Dispute Resolution approaches through a relatively short stay in the Civil Division, Associate Judge Mark R. Facchini will take on the “Criminal Misdemeanor Non-Jury Call” in Courtroom 104.
In addition to his administrative duties and recent assignment to Initial Appearance Court, Chmiel will handle the Small Claims and Arbitration cases of the Circuit and continue the work on ADR and initiatives to address Artificial Intelligence in the Circuit.
A vacancy created through the unexpected passing of Judge Michael E. Coppedge on November 13, 2023, is in the process of being filled in March of 2024.
The vacancy being created through Cowlin’s retirement is scheduled to be filled through the General Election in November of 2024, but could be filled sooner through an appointment of the Supreme Court of Illinois.
“We tell ourselves we get what we can handle, and while we continue to leverage technology, we will continue to serve the legal system to the best of our abilities,“ Chmiel explains.
The new assignments are scheduled to take effect February 1, 2024.
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In years past, a Republican has held the Supreme Court seat covering McHenry County. That resulted in Republicans being appointed to fill out the term of a retiring judge, which, in turn, gave that appointee a headstart on getting elected.
Now that a Democrat holds the seat, in all probability, a Democrat will be appointed until an election selects a permanent replacement.
One of the worst Judges ever to be seated on the Court IMO.
A product of nepotism.
Cowlin says he’s a Republican.
He’s a uniparty fraud who is weak and has a limited intellect.
He is in power because he cowered to the will of Al Jourdan decades ago.
His father was smart; Jim is a dolt.
Jourdan like weak, feckless, begging dolts like Cowlin.
Result – the void is filled by the sluge of the democrat party and guys like Cowlin would rather that happen than a strong conservative with principles become judge.
Weaklings like Cowlin HATE competence and strength – they recoil from political conviction and honor.
Hs family had nothing to do with his first appointment as an associate judge in 2008.
His father had died two years earlier and retired in the 1990s.
No family members in any public office.
He was selected by the circuit judges in the same sort of process going on now to replace Judge Coppedge.
Then the kicker Thomas appointed him to the circuit bench in one of his better choices.
So your nepotism claim is baseless.
As to his ability as a judge, can you be more specific?
He is a calm, quiet, humble guy, drives a modest car, low profile, and all that translated to the bench into a good demeanor, patient, no ego to handle or cater to.
Some judges try to be a personality on the bench; that just gets in the way and makes you worry about how to deal with them.
Give us boring judges who are smart, listen to the evidence, and know the law.
Jourdan? Now you’re really reaching.
He was gone from the local party and public office in the 1990s.
He ended up on RTA board by the time Judge Cowlin was picked.
His power to influence judicial selections was long gone.
What Law firm was Coppedge with prior to his appointment in 2015?
As Martin references, you have Bears Kickers, Alderman’s Wives on your States highest court, you’ve had Greylord and your last Chief of Police in your largest city, is now doing ‘slip and fall” huckster lawyer commercials in Dallas now.
How do you take any part of the Law and the Judicial there seriously in that hellscape?
What McHenry County Judge is also connected to Bob Thomas?
What McHenry County Judge is connected to Thomas and Algonquin Township?
Why not Chris Zorich?
He played for the Bears, has a law degree and once plucked my business card out of a fishbowl drawing at some event, for a $50 gift card.
Many judgies in McHenry Co are incompetent.
Most are corrupt.
Most are democrats in reality.
Most moms are……….
CLM’s bitchy lying falls apart, so Crabby Grammy pitches in with even more vague claims, cuz ya gotta complain about something!
One possible problem with Zorich becoming a judge is that I don’t think he was ever able to pass the bar.
Martin, our Grand Jewish Diviner who can explain away everything, even the Jewish stranglehold over Congress.
Yet he is very wrong.
The deal with Fat Al, the 19th Ward Jourdanian sausage transplantee, was made to Cowlin’s sire before he expired.
Sorry Martin, Jews ain’t so benevolent, wise or altruistic.
“We are seeing the true face of Zionazism and Talmudic Judaism, where genocide, child murder and terror are ‘Holy’ acts. Over the years, if you merely quoted the Book of Joshua, or the incessant calls for genocide in the Torah, or honestly described the genocidal nature and provenance of the ‘festivals’ of Passover and Purim, you would be censored and vilified as an ‘antisemite.”
Martin, why should we be so goyish to send treasure and expendable biological units called GIs to secure Israhell’s borders while our own are nonexistent???
Answer Martin!
But you, you filthy little ghetto creature, never will!!!!
https://www.jta.org/2021/01/20/politics/all-the-jews-joe-biden-has-tapped-for-top-roles-in-his-administration
Upset Mom, CLM and JT, please do keep up triggering the house troll jews, they might stroke out!
Monk, please don’t read: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/la-danse-mossad-robert-maxwell-and-jeffrey-epstein/
We hung and shot your idols at the end of WWII, thanks to my dad, uncles, and a few million like them. The Nazis received trials. Josef Kramer and 44 other Bergen-Belsen staff referred to their victims as the dregs of the ghettos. He talked like you. Then he choked on those words.
Nobody wants to work with Chmiel, they are dying to get out of there.
Martin needs to be de-zionized.
Jews, the perpetual victims, also the perpetual parasites, also the perpetual enemies of mankind!
Gandhi, McKinley, Popes Pius X, XI and XII, Chas. Lindberg, Huey Long, Musk, Henry Ford, Thos. Edison, Billy Graham, James Forrestal, Patton, Perot, Petain, Marconi, Dickens, U.S. Grant, Shakespeare and Hemmingway can’t all be wrong!
Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, talked about Jews exactly as you do.
You do it anonymously, and are too much the coward to speak that way openly or in your own name. Steicher hung after his trial at Nuremberg.
“Hate Has No Home Here” Sign Triggers Comment —-
The anti hate people who, Cal says, triggered a bunch of you Caliphatians, put signs in their yards and windows and march publicly.
By contrast, you’re too ashamed of your beliefs to share them publicly.
Put your bigoted, racist crap on a sign and put it in your yard if you are so sure you’re right.
You won’t.
You hide here under cover of anonymity in your safe space with mostly like-minded angry old white men.
I never claimed nepotism.
Old man Cowlin was respected and an effective lawyer and citizen.
Jim was a wuss son who did nothing.
He was a Jourdan man – a dolt who did what he was told.
With Jourdan’s influence, he was chosen BECAUSE he’d do what the Uniparty wanted.
I NEVER suggested nepotism…you losers who benefit from the corrupt system incorrectly presumed that.
Then the attacks on me based on the false pretense started.
The Uniparty hates success.
The Uniparty hates meritocacy.
The Uniparty hates Trump.
The Uniparty wants a legal-judicial system that runs by fiat and not by facts/evidence/direct reading of the law.
You want what the democrats want: AUTOCRACY.
Bring back the Kraken with your evidence and law, then.
As far as Trump and the election fraud people, dozens of courts in federal and state jurisdictions, criminal and civil, have looked for any evidence.
Rudy, Fox, Powell, Trump’s own cases: they all admitted they have no evidence.
Every time this is pointed out, you just go back to the victim stance, and claim these forces are all out to get you.
You want to find some election interference, go read the Mueller Report.
Jourdan was long gone as a local political force – he held power up to the mid 90s – in the Republican Party by 2008, when Judge Cowlin was appointed by a vote of the circuit judges.
Coppedge was with ‘Cowlin,Naughton,Curran & Coppedge’.
Chmiel was a clerk for Bob Thomas and Algonquin Township attorney during the Miller years.
He and Cortina who was also Algonquin Township attorney were sycophants to Herb Franks IMO.