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Bolingbrook, IL (PRWEB) February 08, 2022 Will County attorney Sonni Choi Williams is pleased to announce her candidacy for 3rd District Appellate Judge.
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Illinois Supreme Court issued the following announcement on Mar. 9.
Justice Robert L. Carter and the Supreme Court of Illinois have announced the appointment of Christina M. Cantlin-VanWiggeren as an At-Large Circuit Court Judge in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.
Ms. Cantlin-VanWiggeren is being appointed to fill the vacancy created by the appointment of Judge Eugene P. Daugherity to the Third District Appellate Court. The appointment takes effect on March 22, 2021, and will conclude on December 5, 2022, when the vacancy will be filled by the winner of the November 2022 general election.
“I would like to thank Justice Carter, the Illinois Supreme Court and the screening committee for this appointment,” Ms. Cantlin-VanWiggeren said. “I look forward to serving the citizens of the 13th Circuit as a member of the judiciary.” Justice Carter recommended the appointment to the full Court following a review of applicants by a seven-person screening committee, which
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The Illinois Local Government Lawyers Association recently announced its awards at the Association s Annual Meeting on February 18, 2021. The award for litigation is annually given to attorneys who litigated a case of significance to local governments over the previous year.
The Awards Committee selected attorneys who significantly participated in the case of I-57 LLC v City of Champaign, City of Urbana, Urbana and Champaign Sanitary District, Village of Savoy and Village of Bondville (2020 IL App (4th) 190850). The case was decided in favor of the governmental entities by the trial court and the decision was affirmed by the 4th District Appellate Court in August 2020. Attorneys receiving the award were Jim Martinkus, attorney for the Sanitary District, Jim Simon, Urbana s City Attorney, as well as Tom Yu and Fred Stavins of the City of Champaign Legal Department.