Bar Groups Split On Two Cook Retention Candidates
From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Two Cook County circuit judges have received negative retention ratings from several bar groups.
But other members of the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening, along with the Suburban Bar Coalition, believe Circuit Judges Ann O’Donnell and Laura Marie Sullivan should be supported by voters.
O’Donnell, who presides over felony preliminary hearings at 5555 W. Grand Ave., received a thumbs-down from the Chicago Council of Lawyers, the only alliance member providing written summaries of its evaluations.
She was the lone judge among 73 circuit or appellate judges up for retention Nov. 4 that received a negative rating from the council.
The council’s summary says many lawyers criticized O’Donnell’s judicial temperament “as being unduly flip, sarcastic and rude.”
The summary also says some lawyers criticized O’Donnell’s method within the past year of refusing to appoint an assistant public defender to a number of indigent defendants. Instead, she believed family members should have paid for a private lawyer.
In addition to the council, the alliance also consists of the Asian American Bar Association, the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, Cook County Bar Association, Decalogue Society of Lawyers, Hellenic Bar Association of Lawyers, Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois, Illinois State Bar Association, Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago, the Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois.
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From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Two Cook County circuit judges have received negative retention ratings from several bar groups.
But other members of the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening, along with the Suburban Bar Coalition, believe Circuit Judges Ann O’Donnell and Laura Marie Sullivan should be supported by voters.
O’Donnell, who presides over felony preliminary hearings at 5555 W. Grand Ave., received a thumbs-down from the Chicago Council of Lawyers, the only alliance member providing written summaries of its evaluations.
She was the lone judge among 73 circuit or appellate judges up for retention Nov. 4 that received a negative rating from the council.
The council’s summary says many lawyers criticized O’Donnell’s judicial temperament “as being unduly flip, sarcastic and rude.”
The summary also says some lawyers criticized O’Donnell’s method within the past year of refusing to appoint an assistant public defender to a number of indigent defendants. Instead, she believed family members should have paid for a private lawyer.
In addition to the council, the alliance also consists of the Asian American Bar Association, the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, Cook County Bar Association, Decalogue Society of Lawyers, Hellenic Bar Association of Lawyers, Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois, Illinois State Bar Association, Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago, the Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois.
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