Kenton Skarin
Kenton Skarin (Republican Party) ran for election for judge of the Illinois 3rd District Appellate Court. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Skarin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kenton Skarin's career experience includes working as a judge. He earned a bachelor's degree from the North Central College and a law degree from the Northwestern University School of Law.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Illinois intermediate appellate court elections, 2024
General election
General election for Illinois 3rd District Appellate Court
John C. Anderson defeated Kenton Skarin in the general election for Illinois 3rd District Appellate Court on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | John C. Anderson (D) | 51.2 | 462,754 |
 | Kenton Skarin (R)  | 48.8 | 440,671 | |
| Total votes: 903,425 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois 3rd District Appellate Court
John C. Anderson defeated incumbent Joseph P. Hettel in the Democratic primary for Illinois 3rd District Appellate Court on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John C. Anderson | 64.3 | 68,214 |
 | Joseph P. Hettel | 35.7 | 37,955 | |
| Total votes: 106,169 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois 3rd District Appellate Court
Kenton Skarin advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois 3rd District Appellate Court on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kenton Skarin | 100.0 | 92,612 |
| Total votes: 92,612 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kenton Skarin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Skarin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Judges should be fair, not political. Judge Skarin has the credentials and experience to follow the law, not politics. Judge Skarin graduated first in his class from Northwestern Law and summa cum laude from North Central College in Naperville.
Judge Skarin’s world-class credentials are mirrored by his Illinois State Bar Association bar poll numbers. Judge Skarin received the highest marks in his race for “Integrity,” “Legal Ability,” “Court Management,” and “Meets Requirements of Office.” The lawyers in Judge Skarin’s court know he does his job fairly and with excellence.
Earlier in his career, Judge Skarin worked for the U.S. Supreme Court, writing opinions. He previously served in a similar role for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, covering five states. He also practiced appellate law in the Chicago office of Jones Day, an international law firm with offices on five continents.
Most recently, Judge Skarin has served for over five years on the Illinois 18th Judicial Circuit, a trial court serving almost one million people west of Chicago. There, he has looked citizens in the eye while exercising the empathy all judges need.
While judges should never be politicians, Illinois requires a party affiliation. Judge Skarin is running as a Republican.- We need Fairer, Smarter, Faster courts in Illinois.
Fairer: Judges must follow the law, not politics. Judges do not make law-they apply what the people and their legislators have already decided. Judge Skarin applies the law as it is written and lets the chips fall because anything else improperly steals power from the people.
Faster: The only thing worse than being in court is being in court a long time. Judge Skarin runs the most efficient courtroom in his courthouse, because he cares about getting people answers and out of court so they can move on with their lives. - We need Fairer, Smarter, Faster courts in Illinois.
Smarter: We need the best-credentialed, hardest-working judges, not partisan hacks. Smarter courts help people because fewer mistakes are made, predictable decisions are made, and litigation costs are lower. Judge Skarin has the world-class resume and experience to make our courts the best.
- WinWithSkarin #FairerSmarterFaster
- We need Fairer, Smarter, Faster courts in Illinois.
- WinWithSkarin #FairerSmarterFaster
People come to court broken with with problems too big to solve any other way. Judge Skarin is passionate about providing correct answers as quickly and inexpensively as possible, so that the process does not make the horrible situations that bring people to court even worse. That is not always possible, but it is the goal every single day.
- WinWithSkarin #FairerSmarterFaster
The bar poll matters because it reflects the responses of lawyers familiar with the individual candidates and is based on the number of individuals who responded about them.
In other words, the lawyers who know Judge Skarin and appear in front of him in court say that he does his job fairly and with excellence. Judge Skarin is honored to have this mark of confidence from his fellow lawyers.
Judge Skarin was also separately rated "Qualified" by the ISBA. That rating is excellent, particularly since an elected state representative from the opposite political party was somehow allowed to participate in the rating process!
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 17, 2024
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