Recent appointments and retirements

1. ​Pursuant to its Constitutional authority, the supreme court has appointed the following to be circuit judge: 

• Raylene Grischow, 7th Circuit, January 7, 2019 
• Gail L. Noll, 7th Circuit, January 7, 2019 
• Jonathan C. Wright, 11th Circuit, January 7, 2019 
• Michael A. Strom, Cook County Circuit, 9th Subcircuit, January 10, 2019 
• Lynn Weaver-Boyle, Cook County Circuit, January 11, 2019
• Gerado Tristan, Jr., Cook County Circuit, 14th Subcircuit, January 11, 2019 
• James T. Derico, Jr., Cook County Circuit, January 18, 2019 
• Kerrie Maloney Laytin, Cook County Circuit, January 18, 2019 
• Celestia L. Mays, Cook County Circuit, January 25, 2019 

2.​The circuit judges have appointed the following to be associate judge: 

• Douglas E. Lee, 15th Circuit, January 2, 2019 
• Brian L. Bower, 5th Circuit, January 3, 2019 
• Colleen R. Lawless, 7th Circuit, January 4, 2019 
• Julia A. Yetter, 16th Circuit, January 16, 2019 
• Scott Sliwinski, 21st Circuit, January 18, 2019 
• Jeffrey K. Watson, 20th Circuit, January 18, 2019 
• Scott Kording, 11th Circuit, January 22, 2019 
• Patricia L. Cornell, 19th Circuit, January 24, 2019 
• Casey Bloodworth, 1st Circuit, January 25, 2019 
• Roger B. Thomson, 8th Circuit, January 25, 2019

3. The following judges have retired: 

• Hon. William Robin Todd, 4th Circuit, January 18, 2019 
• Hon. Brian R. McKillip, Associate Judge, 18th Circuit, January 24, 2019 
• Hon. Diane Joan Larsen, Cook County Circuit, January 25, 2019 
• James P. McCarthy, Cook County Circuit, January 28, 2019 
• Thomas R. Allen, Cook County Circuit, 10th Subcircuit, January 30, 2019 
• Lori R. Lefstein, 14th Circuit, January 30, 2019

4.​The following judge has been reinstated: 

• Hon. Jeffrey S. MacKay, Associate Judge, 18th Circuit, January 2, 2019