Thomas Kilbride
Thomas Kilbride (Democratic Party) was a judge for the 3rd District of the Illinois Supreme Court. He assumed office in 2000. He left office on December 7, 2020.
Kilbride ran for re-election for the 3rd District judge of the Illinois Supreme Court. He lost in the retention election on November 3, 2020.
Kilbride served as chief justice of the court from October 26, 2010, until October 25, 2013. Kilbride succeeded Thomas R. Fitzgerald.[1] Kilbride retired on December 8, 2020. To learn more about this vacancy, click here.
Education
Kilbride received his B.A. from Saint Mary's College in 1978 and his J.D. from the Antioch School of Law in 1981.[2]
Career
Kilbride worked as a lawyer in private practice for 20 years. He was elected to the Supreme Court of Illinois for the Third District in 2000. He left office in 2020 after he was not retained in the 2020 election.[3]
Awards and associations
Awards
- 2010: Award of Excellence in the Judiciary, Illinois State Crime Commission [4]
Associations
- Past board member, president and vice-president, Illinois Township Attorneys Association
- Charter member, Illinois Pro Bono Center
- Volunteer legal adviser, Community Caring Conference
- Volunteer legal adviser, Quad City Harvest, Inc.[3]
Elections
2020
- See also: Illinois Supreme Court elections, 2020
Illinois Supreme Court 3rd District
Thomas Kilbride was not retained to the 3rd District of the Illinois Supreme Court on November 3, 2020 with 56.5% of the vote.
Retention Vote |
% |
Votes |
|||
Yes |
56.5
|
452,142 | |||
| ✖ | No |
43.5
|
347,812 | ||
Total Votes |
799,954 | ||||
|
|
2010
- See also: Illinois judicial elections, 2010
Thomas Kilbride was retained with 65.88% of the vote for an additional term on the Illinois Supreme Court.[5]
According to NPR, this race became the second-highest-grossing judicial retention campaign ever. It was the costliest of the 25 years prior.[6][7]
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Thomas Kilbride did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Political outlook
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.
Kilbride received a campaign finance score of -0.84, 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.[8]
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Gavel Grab, "Embattled IL Justice to be Court's Chief," September 16, 2010
- ↑ Project Vote Smart, "Justice Thomas L. Kilbride," accessed September 25, 2014
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Illinois States Courts, "Kilbride's Biography," accessed September 25, 2014
- ↑ The Daily Journal, "Kankakee County: Ill. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride to be honored," June 15, 2010
- ↑ FOX Chicago News, "Supreme Court Election Results," archived January 4, 2014
- ↑ The Madison Record, "Kilbride retention race was nation's costliest, report says," October 27, 2011
- ↑ NPR, "No Opponent, But Big Money In Illinois Justice's Race," October 26, 2010
- ↑ Stanford University, "State Supreme Court Ideology and 'New Style' Judicial Campaigns," October 31, 2012
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