Carole Bellows

Carole Bellows (born May 24, 1935) is a Circuit Court judge in Cook County, Illinois, and the former president of the Illinois Bar Association.[1][2]

Career

She became the first woman in the United States to be elected as president of a State Bar Association when she was elected president of the Illinois State Bar Association, serving from 1977-1978.[3]

Bellows spent the entirety of her pre-judicial career in private practice, and was elected president of the Illinois bar association in 1977. In 1986 she was appointed to the Illinois Circuit court, and was reelected in 1988. Her term ends in December 2018.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121119013717/http://www.voteforjudges.org/Judicial_Performance_Commission_2012_Report_Final_for_Distribution.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.isba.org/leadership/pastpresidents
  3. ↑ "IJA to present distinguished service award to Judge Carole Bellows". Illinois State Bar Association. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121119013717/http://www.voteforjudges.org/Judicial_Performance_Commission_2012_Report_Final_for_Distribution.pdf
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-08-12. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  6. ↑ http://ballotpedia.org/Carole_Bellows



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