Past & Present Circuit Judges

Time of Service
 Judge
1862 - 1878 Theodore D. Murphy
1877 - 1897 Clark W. Upton
1897 - 1903 Charles H. Donnelly
1901 - 1914 Charles Whitney
1912 - 1936 Edward D. Shurtleff
1914 - 1930 Claire C. Edwards
1930 - 1951 William L. Pierce
1930 - 1951 Ralph J. Dady
1945 - 1972 William M. Carroll
1946 - 1958 Charles Jack
1951 - 1962 Bernard Decker
1957 - 1960 Sidney H. Block
1961 - 1964 Thomas Moran
1962 - 1969 Phillip W. Yager
1963 - 1967 Glenn K. Seidenfeld
1964 - 1976 LaVerne A. Dixon
1964 - 1977 Charles S. Parker
1964 - 1979 James H. Cooney
1946 - 1966 Minard E. Hulse
1968 - 1970 Minard E. Hulse **
1970 - 1980 Fred H. Geiger
1970 - 1980 Lloyd A. Van Deusen
1970 - 1984 Harry D. Strouse, Jr.
1972 - 1972 L. Eric Carey
1972 - 1977 William Gleason
1972 - 1983 John J. Kaufman
1973 - 1980 Henry H. Caldwell
1973 - 1980 Thomas R. Doran
1974 - 1986 John L. Hughes
1976 - 1993 Roland A. Herrmann *
1977 - 1983 Robert K. McQueen
1978 - 1996 Henry L. Cowlin
1980 - 1984 Leonard Brody
1980 - 1999 Jack Hoogasian
1980 - 1986 Lawrence D. Inglis
1980 - 1996 William D. Block
1984 - 2000 Charles F. Scott
1984 - 1989 Fred A. Geiger
1984 - 1999 Bernard E. Drew, Jr.
1984 - 2007 Michael J. Sullivan *
1986 - 2004 John R. Goshgarian
1989 - 2006 Stephen E. Walter
1991 - 2010 Raymond J. McKoski
1991 - 2006 Henry C. Tonigan, III
1991 - 1998 James C. Franz *
1992 - 1994 Susan Fayette Hutchinson *
1994 - 1996 Conrad F. Floeter *
1996 - 2008 Jane D. Waller
1996 - 2004 Ward S. Arnold *
1996 - 2002 Barbara Gilleran Johnson
1996 - 2007 Sharon L. Prather *
1996 - 2002 Thomas A. Schermerhorn, Sr. *
1997 - 2017 Margaret J. Mullen
1998 - 2000 Haskell M. Pitluck *
2000 - 2012 David M. Hall
2000 - 2016 Christopher C. Starck
2000 - James K. Booras
2000 - 2007 Maureen P. McIntyre *
2001 - 2008 Mary S. Schostok
2002 - Victoria A. Rossetti
2002 - 2007 Michael T. Caldwell *
2004 - 2014 Fred Foreman
2005 - 2007 Michael J. Chmiel *
2006 - 2016 John T. Phillips
2006 - 2008 George Bridges
2007 - 2021 Valerie Boettle Ceckowski
2008 - Jorge L. Ortiz
2008 - 2022 Diane E. Winter
2008 - 2020 Jay W. Ukena
2010 - Daniel B. Shanes
2010 - Mark L. Levitt
2012 - 2016 George Bridges
2012 - Patricia S. Fix
2012 - 2019 Thomas M. Schippers
2014 - Mitchell L. Hoffman
2016 -   Christopher R. Stride
2016 - Christen L. Bishop
2016 - Charles W. Smith
2018 -   Joseph V. Salvi
2020 - Reginald C. Mathews
2020 -  Marnie M. Slavin
2021 -  Michael G. Nerheim

Special Notes

  • * - Denotes Circuit Judges of McHenry County. McHenry County was part of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit from 1957 until separated into the 22nd Judicial Circuit beginning in January 2007.
  • ** - Requested to return from retirement