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Anne M. Burke
Anne M. Burke (Democratic Party) was a judge for the 1st District of the Illinois Supreme Court. She assumed office in 2006. She left office on November 30, 2022.
Burke (Democratic Party) ran for re-election for the 1st District judge of the Illinois Supreme Court. She won in the retention election on November 6, 2018.
Burke was elected by her peers to succeed Lloyd Karmeier as chief justice of the court. Her term as chief began on October 26, 2019, and ended October 25, 2022.[1]
Burke announced on September 12, 2022, that she would retire effective November 30, 2022.[2] To learn more about this vacancy, click here.
Burke first became a member of the court by appointment. Members of the court appointed her in 2006 to succeed retiring Justice Mary Ann McMorrow.[3] Burke was subsequently elected in a partisan election to remain on the court. To read more about judicial selection in Illinois, click here.
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.[4] Burke received a confidence score of Strong Democrat.[5] Click here to read more about this study.
Burke previously served on the Illinois Appellate Court, First District.
Biography
Burke was born in Chicago, Illinois. She received a B.A. in education from DePaul University in 1976. She received a J.D. from IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1983.[6]
Burke was appointed to the Illinois Court of Claims, where she served as a judge from 1987 to 1994. She was then appointed special counsel to the governor for child welfare services. In 1995, she was appointed to the Illinois Appellate Court, First District, where she served until her state supreme court appointment in 2006.[6]
Elections
2018
- See also: Illinois Supreme Court elections, 2018
Illinois Supreme Court 1st District, Burke's seat
Anne M. Burke was retained to the 1st District of the Illinois Supreme Court on November 6, 2018 with 81.1% of the vote.
Retention Vote |
% |
Votes |
|||
| ✔ | Yes |
81.1
|
1,106,592 | ||
No |
18.9
|
258,253 | |||
Total Votes |
1,364,845 | ||||
|
|
2008
Burke won election to her seat on the Illinois Supreme Court after running unopposed.[7]
Analysis
Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)
Last updated: June 15, 2020
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020.
The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.[8]
The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:
- Strong Democrat
- Mild Democrat
- Indeterminate[9]
- Mild Republican
- Strong Republican
This justice's Confidence Score, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020.
Anne
Burke
Illinois
- Partisan Confidence Score:
Strong Democrat - Judicial Selection Method:
Elected - Key Factors:
- Was a registered Democrat
- Worked on a campaign for a Democratic candidate
- Received donations from Democratic entities
- Endorsed by a Democratic entity
Partisan Profile
Details:
Burke was a registered Democrat. She organized a fundraiser for Democratic Mayoral Candidate Teri Preckwinkle while she was on the Illinois Supreme Court. She donated more than $2000 to Democratic political campaigns. Justice Burke's campaign received donations and endorsements from Democratic political organizations. At the time of her election to the Illinois Supreme Court, the state of Illinois was a Democratic controlled trifecta.
Other Indicators:
Burke has been identified by the media as a Democrat. Burke’s campaign staffers were all associated with the Democratic Party.
Other Scores:
Justice Burke received a Campaign Finance Score of -0.55, indicating a liberal ideological leaning.
Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores (2012)
In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.
Burke received a campaign finance score of -0.55, indicating a liberal ideological leaning. This was more liberal than the average score of -0.31 that justices received in Illinois.
The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.[10]
State supreme court judicial selection in Illinois
- See also: Judicial selection in Illinois
The seven justices of the Illinois Supreme Court are chosen by popular vote in partisan elections and serve 10-year terms, after which they must compete in uncontested, nonpartisan retention elections to remain on the court.[11]
Supreme court justices in Illinois are elected to represent specific districts. The seven justices are divided among five districts (three allocated to Cook County and the others divided evenly among the other four districts) and are voted into office by the residents of their respective regions.[11]
Qualifications
To serve on the supreme court, a judge must be:
Chief justice
The chief justice of the supreme court is chosen by peer vote to serve a three-year term.[11]
Vacancies
In the event of a midterm vacancy, the Illinois Supreme Court is responsible for appointing an interim justice. If a justice is appointed more than 60 days before the next primary election, the justice must run in a partisan election in the next general or judicial election to remain on the court. The appointed justice's term will end on the first Monday in December after their election. If a justice is appointed less than 60 days before the next primary election, the justice will have to run in a partisan election to remain on the court in the second general election. The appointed justice's term will end on the first Monday in December after their election[11]
The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.
Personal
Justice Burke is married to Alderman Ed Burke of Chicago's 14th Ward.[6]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Twitter, "Paris Schutz on September 11, 2019," accessed July 2, 2021
- ↑ Chicago Sun-Times, "Chief Justice Anne Burke stepping down from Illinois Supreme Court," September 12, 2022
- ↑ The Chicago Tribune, "1st female justice resigns, taps Burke," April 6, 2006
- ↑ We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.
- ↑ The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Illinois Courts, "Anne M. Burke," accessed July 2, 2021
- ↑ Illinois State Board of Elections, "Election Results, 2008, Judicial," accessed July 2, 2021
- ↑ The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.
- ↑ An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.
- ↑ Stanford University, "State Supreme Court Ideology and 'New Style' Judicial Campaigns," October 31, 2012
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 National Center for State Courts, "Methods of Judicial Selection," accessed September 8, 2021
Federal courts:
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Central District of Illinois, Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of Illinois • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Central District of Illinois, Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of Illinois
State courts:
Illinois Supreme Court • Illinois Appellate Court • Illinois Circuit Court
State resources:
Courts in Illinois • Illinois judicial elections • Judicial selection in Illinois
