Circuit Court of Cook County Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans was elected Sept. 13 to an eighth term as chief judge.
His new three-year term will begin Dec. 5.
The results were announced by the Hon. Shelley Sutker-Dermer, chair of the Judicial Election Committee and presiding judge of the Second Municipal District, who said Evans ran for re-election unopposed. Other committee members included the Hon. Alison C. Conlon, the Hon. Peter A. Felice, the Hon. Maritza Martinez, the Hon. David R. Navarro, the Hon. Rena Marie Van Tine, the Hon. Thaddeus L. Wilson and the Hon. E. Kenneth Wright Jr.
Evans is chief judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, the largest of the 24 judicial circuits in Illinois and also one of the largest unified court systems in the world. More than 1 million cases are annually filed in the court, which serves Cook County's nearly 5.2 million residents.
He oversees more than 400 judges whom he assigns throughout the court's 10 divisions and six geographic districts. He also oversees an annual budget of $286.5 million plus $10 million in grants and about 2,600 employees who work in 15 non-judicial offices providing court-related services such as pretrial services, probation supervision, court reporters and courtroom interpreters.