Dorothy Brown offers her choices for Cook County judicial races

Outgoing Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown has made some endorsements for Tuesday's primary.

It's easy to be snarky about this; there are few practicing lawyers who don't have a story or two about lost or missing pleadings or even whole court files. Many times, in preparing an index to an appellate record, I'd encounter motions, orders, or discovery responses from an entirely different case -- and in many cases I and my opponent would have to put together a stipulation, with file-stamped copies attached, to insert the actual necessary papers into a record.

Efiling has cured the worst of this -- especially when efiling was taken from Clerk Brown's control. When Clerk Brown had control of efiling, "free" filing wasn't free.

And Dorothy Brown always seemed to be running for another office -- and never getting there.

But all this is beside the point when it comes to elections.

Because when it came to getting elected as Clerk of the Circuit Court, and getting re-elected, Dorothy Brown won. Her most impressive reelection bid was her last, when she was dumped by the Democratic Party because, it was rumored, she was about to be indicted.

But she wasn't indicted.

And the good, church-going ladies and everyone else who had supported her in the past came out to support her again.

So while many practitioners may not be particularly concerned about Dorothy Brown's endorsements, I suggest that her recommendations may well translate into actual votes from persons that supported her in the past.

Without further preamble, then, Clerk Brown has endorsed Justice Nathaniel Roosevelt Howse for the Supreme Court and Judge Sharon O. Johnson for the Simon vacancy on the Appellate Court.

In contested countywide Circuit Court races, Dorothy Brown has made the following recommendations:

Tiesha L. Smith - Bellows vacancy
James T. Derico, Jr. - Coghlan vacancy
U. O'Neal - Ford vacancy
Celestia L. Mays - Funderburk vacancy
Levander "Van" Smith, Jr. - Larsen vacancy
Arthur D. Sutton - Mason vacancy
Sheree Desiree Henry - Murphy Gorman vacancy
Lloyd James Brooks - O'Brien vacancy
Deidre Baumann - C. Sheehan vacancy

The Organizing the Data posts are being updated accordingly.

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