James K. Booras
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James K. Booras is a judge of the Nineteenth Circuit Court of Illinois.[1] He was appointed to this position by the Illinois Supreme Court on August 15, 2000, and was retained in 2002 and 2008.[2] He was most recently retained on November 4, 2014, for a term that expired on December 6, 2020.[3]
Elections
2014
Booras was retained to the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court with 78.7 percent of the vote on November 4, 2014. [3]
Evaluations
The Illinois State Bar Association and participating attorneys rated James K. Booras as Recommended for retention in a 2014 poll.[4]
Education
Booras earned an undergraduate degree from Northern Illinois University in 1975, going on to receive his J.D. from Lewis University College of Law in 1979.[2]
Career
From 1991 until his appointment as circuit judge in 2000, Booras served the Nineteenth Circuit as an associate judge. Before joining the bench, he was a city prosecutor in Waukegan, Illinois and ran a private practice in Lake County.[2]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Illinois Courts, "Judges of the 19th Judicial Circuit," accessed May 16, 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 19th Judicial Circuit Court of Lake County Illinois, "Official biography of Judge Booras"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Illinois State Board of Elections, "List of judges seeking retention in the November 4, 2014 general election," accessed May 8, 2014
- ↑ Illinois State Bar Association, "Judicial Evaluations," October 2014
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
