Past & Present Circuit Judges

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

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