{"id":4060,"date":"2022-06-02T16:26:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:05:11","slug":"primary-judicial-evaluations-for-june-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/primary-judicial-evaluations-for-june-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Election Judicial Evaluations for June 2022 are Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Among the Chicago Council of Lawyers\u2019 most vital projects are our state judicial evaluations. This crucial public service to help the citizens of Illinois vote for qualified judges. The quality of our judiciary is a critical part of our democracy, and informed voting for judges is necessary if we are to have good judges who are independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><strong>The next judicial election in Cook County is on June 28, 2022, during the Illinois primary election. <\/strong>Voters will be asked to make decisions about candidates from their political party they wish to see run for that specific judicial vacancy in the partisan general election. Uncontested primary candidates advance automatically to the general election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-Judicial-Election-Ballot-Order-Report-final2.pdf\">Click here for the Council&#8217;s evaluation report of candidates running in the 2022 primary election<\/a> (you can also find a ballot summary <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/CEQJ-sample-ballot2022-Final2.pdf\">here<\/a>). <\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chicago Council of Lawyers is also part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjudges.org\/faq\/\">Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Evaluations<\/a> (\u201cAlliance\u201d), which is a group of 12 bar associations that collaboratively evaluate judicial candidates in Cook County. The Alliance receives information about candidates\u2019 performances and recommends whether they are qualified to be, or remain, a judge. Although they receive substantially similar information, each bar association in the Alliance issues its own recommendation as to the candidates\u2019 fitness to serve on the bench. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjudges.org\/\">You can find the Alliance&#8217;s primary evaluation on VoteForJudges.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 8, 2022, the general election will occur in Illinois. During the general election, candidates that advanced from the primary election will run against a candidate from the other party and sitting judges running for retention will also be on the ballot. The Council is seeking information from the public to inform our retention election evaluations: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScA7aXT_X-vF_9M3fdaDnVRC4Ojvbl6p1EP05N9vX_ojgrENQ\/viewform\">Please fill out this confidential survey if you have personal, professional, or other first-hand experience with the judges on this list<\/a>. You may submit this form more than once if you would like to comment on multiple judges.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>For more information on the Council&#8217;s judicial evaluation process, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/state-judicial-evaluations\/\">ChicagoCouncil.org\/State-Judicial-Evaluations<\/a> or contact <a href=\"mailto:malcolmrich@chicagoappleseed.org\">Malcolm Rich<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the Chicago Council of Lawyers\u2019 most vital projects are  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[31,63,33],"class_list":["post-4060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judicial-performance-and-accountability","tag-judicial-ballot","tag-judicial-evaluation","tag-state-judicial-evaluations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Primary Election Judicial Evaluations for June 2022 are Live! 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