Vacancy of the Hon. Robert W. Cook

For Appellate Justice - Fourth District

Democratic Primary:

- No Democrat Filed For This Vacancy

Republican Primary:

- Thomas R. Appleton
     - Response to ICJL Questionnaire
     - Candidate Resume
     - Appellate Court Biography
     - Campaign Committee: Citizens for Appleton
     - Response to the Chicago Tribune Questionnaire
     - Rated "Highly Qualified" by the Illinois State Bar Association

Bar Poll Results:

Latest News:

Justice Appleton Announces Candidacy For Appellate Court
(Source: Springfield State Journal-Register, August 29, 2009)

Justice Thomas Appleton has announces his candidacy for the vacancy on the Fourth District Appellate Court created by the retirement of Justice Robert W. Cook. The election will be held in 2010.

Appleton, a resident of Springfield, was assigned to duties as a justice of the appellate court by Illinois Supreme Court Justice Rita Garman in December 2001 and has served as a justice of the appellate court since then. Appleton was elected as a circuit court judge for the Seventh Judicial Circuit in 1992. He will be running in the Republican primary.

Appleton has served as a member of the Illinois Judicial Conference and was appointed by the supreme court as co-chair of the court’s Special Committee on Rule 23, which dealt with an administrative order that placed restrictions on appellate courts. He twice has been selected to serve on the faculty for the Illinois Judicial Education Conference.

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