Everything you need to know about ranked-choice voting in one spot. Click to learn more!

Elizabeth Karkula

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search
BP-Initials-UPDATED.png
This page was current at the end of the official's last term in office covered by Ballotpedia. Please contact us with any updates.
Elizabeth Karkula

Silhouette Placeholder Image.png


Prior offices
Cook County Circuit Court

Elizabeth Karkula (Democratic Party) was a judge of the Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois. She assumed office in 2016. She left office in 2018.

Karkula (Democratic Party) ran for election for judge of the Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois. She was disqualified from the Democratic primary scheduled on March 17, 2020.

Karkula was a Democratic candidate for the Cook County Circuit Court Eighth Subcircuit in Illinois. Karkula filed to run in the primary election on March 20, 2018, but her name did not appear on the official election ballot.[1]

Elections

2020

See also: Municipal elections in Cook County, Illinois (2020)

General election

General election for Cook County Circuit Court

Incumbent Sheree Henry won election in the general election for Cook County Circuit Court on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Sheree Henry
Sheree Henry (D)
 
100.0
 
1,486,274

Total votes: 1,486,274
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Cook County Circuit Court

Incumbent Sheree Henry defeated Amanda Pillsbury, Dan Walsh, and Keely Hillison in the Democratic primary for Cook County Circuit Court on March 17, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Sheree Henry
Sheree Henry
 
53.4
 
390,875
Image of Amanda Pillsbury
Amanda Pillsbury
 
17.9
 
130,932
Dan Walsh
 
17.7
 
129,870
Image of Keely Hillison
Keely Hillison
 
10.8
 
79,013
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
1,113

Total votes: 731,803
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

2018

See also: Illinois local trial court judicial elections, 2018

Selection method

See also: Partisan elections

There are 513 judges on the Illinois Circuit Court, each elected in partisan elections to six-year terms. Upon the completion of these terms, judges who wish to continue serving must compete in uncontested, nonpartisan retention elections.[2]

The chief judge of each circuit court is selected by peer vote; he or she serves in that capacity indefinitely.[2]

The circuit courts are also served by 391 associate judges, who are limited in that they may not preside over cases in which the defendant is charged with a felony (an offense punishable by one or more years in prison). Associate judges are appointed to four-year terms by circuit judges.[3][2]

Midterm vacancies are filled by Illinois Supreme Court appointment.[2]

Qualifications
To serve on this court, a judge must be:[2]

  • a U.S. citizen;
  • a circuit/county resident; and
  • licensed to practice law in Illinois.

Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Elizabeth Karkula did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

See also


External links

Footnotes