{"id":11445,"date":"2023-01-03T15:49:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11445"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:17:29","slug":"oshaughnessy-79-re-elected-as-chief-circuit-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2023\/01\/03\/oshaughnessy-79-re-elected-as-chief-circuit-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Shaughnessy \u201979 re-elected as Chief Circuit Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Judge Thomas O\u2019Shaughnessy \u201979<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Vermilion County Presiding Circuit Judge Thomas M. O\u2019Shaughnessy \u201979 has been re-elected as the 5th Judicial Circuit\u2019s Chief Circuit Judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The election occurred during the Circuit Judge Annual Meeting held Dec. 13. First elected as Chief Circuit Judge during 2020, O\u2019Shaughnessy will begin his second two-year term on Jan. 27, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of Illinois\u2019 25 judicial circuits has a chief judge who, in addition to judicial responsibilities, has general supervisory authority over the administrative functions of the trial courts within the circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am honored to have had the opportunity and privilege to serve as Chief Judge of the 5th Judicial Circuit, and humbled that my colleagues have trust and confidence in me. I am blessed to work with judges who are innovative, creative and conscientious, along with a staff dedicated to carrying out the important work of the trial courts,\u201d O\u2019Shaughnessy said in a Commercial-News report<\/a>. \u201cAnd I am grateful to the members of the 5th Circuit Bar \u2014 good, decent and honest attorneys \u2014 who are devoted to upholding their obligations to our profession and responsibilities to the public. I look forward to continue working with all of them as together we serve the people of our judicial circuit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Shaughnessy was first elected as a circuit judge during 2014 and retained for another six-year term during the 2020 general election. He has served as Vermilion County\u2019s presiding judge since September 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He serves upon the Illinois Judges\u2019 Association Board of Directors. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, serving on the Bench & Bar Section Council, and is a member and past president of the Vermilion County Bar Association. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Shaughnessy earned his bachelor\u2019s degree from Wabash and his law degree from Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale. While at Wabash, he studied English and was a member of the cross country and track teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vermilion County Presiding Circuit Judge Thomas M. O\u2019Shaughnessy \u201979 has been re-elected as the 5th Judicial Circuit\u2019s Chief Circuit Judge. The election occurred during the Circuit Judge Annual Meeting held Dec. 13. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/01\/1516451486482.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11449,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions\/11449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}