Jorge L. Ortiz

Current Assignment: Civil Division, Presiding Judge of Civil Division
Chief Judge: 2016 - 2018
Elected as Circuit Judge: November, 2010; Retained November 2016
Appointed as Circuit Judge: By Supreme Court, August 25, 2008
Associate Judge: 2002 - 2008
Undergraduate: Loyola University, 1985
Law School: John Marshall Law School, 1989
Career Highlights: Appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to the Illinois Judicial Conference and to the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice; Presiding Judge of Civil Division, 2014-2016; Presiding Judge of Family Division, 2008-2010; Illinois Child Support Advisory Committee, 2008-2010; National Judicial Child Support Task Force, 2009-Present; Board of Directors and Executive Committees, Illinois Judges Association and Illinois Judges Foundation; Private Practice; Prosecutor for Villages of Lindenhurst and Fox Lake; Assistant State's Attorney