Williams Elected Third Vice-President and Full Results From the ISBA Election
Sonni Choi Williams has been elected Third Vice-President of the Illinois State Bar Association. Ava M. George Stewart won the Cook County seat on the Board of Governors and Amanda G. Highlander won the Area 8 seat on the Board of Governors.
Third Vice-President
- Perry J. Browder, 2,107
- Sonni Choi Williams, 2,541
Board of Governors
Cook
- Howard H. Ankin, 851
- Ava M. George Stewart, 1,129
Area 8 (Circuits 3 and 20)
- Amanda G. Highlander, 244
- Jennifer A. Shaw, 147
The following races were uncontested. Each candidate is therefore, pursuant to the Bylaws of the Association, automatically elected.
Board of Governors
Area 1 (Circuit 18)
- J. Matthew Pfeiffer
Area 6 (Circuits 7, 8, and 9)
- J. Randall Cox
Assembly
Cook County
- Eric J. Anderson
- Thomas M. Battista
- Deidre Baumann
- Sandra M. Blake
- James Alward Cook
- Ajalteria Marie Favors
- John M. Fitzgerald
- Eugene F. Friedman
- Lesley D. Gool
- Matthew R. Huff
- Marjorie Rose Kennedy
- Donald H. Kiolbassa
- Dennis M. Lynch
- Ashly A. McCants
- Hope F. Mercado
- Timothy E. Moran
- Ashley Meghan Murray
- James C. Murray, Jr.
- Paul G. O’Toole
- Robert T. Oleszkiewicz
- Marcos A. Resendiz
- Elisabeth A. Ritter
- Curtis B. Ross
- Evan W. Schanerberger
- Mark E. Wojcik
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Member Comments (4)
it is good to see diversity in the results of the elections,
it is sad to see that so few isba members voted.
Great diversity, but 4,648 voters in 3rd VP election divided by 28,000 members is only a 16.6% voter turnout. Yes, it would be good to see more voting members. I learned of the candidates from the ISBA web site video and hope more members watch such a tool in the next election and then vote. Keep up the good work ISBA! JLK
The ISBA couldn't have made voting any easier. It was open for a month. I received several reminder emails. Each email included all the info I needed to login. The candidate statements were all published in the IBJ and online IBJ. It was only a few clicks to complete.
Maybe the 80+% who didn't vote were unclear what they were voting for or why it mattered?
Maybe some are ISBA members for the benefits (ISBA Mutual Insurance, Fastcase research) and don't care about governance?
Best wishes to the new leaders. Keep up the great work, ISBA team!
Sonni has been involved in the ISBA for more than 20 years.She has been involved in diversity of our organization.. She works very hard and will be a credit to the ISBA.