Eight of the 26 lawyers seeking to be appointed to fill a vacancy in the ranks of DuPage County’s associate judges have been rated as highly recommended by the DuPage County Bar Association.
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The vacancy was created when Associate Judge C. Stanley Austin was appointed as a full Circuit Court judge after the retirement of Judge Ronald Mehling.
Rated as highly recommended by the 2,000-member bar association were: Vincent Cornelius, a lawyer with offices in Wheaton; Richard Felice, a lawyer with offices in Wheaton and a former president of the bar association; Bruce Kelsey, a lawyer with offices in West Chicago; John McTigue, a lawyer with offices in Wheaton; John Panegasser, a lawyer with offices in Elmhurst; Thomas E. Sullivan, a lawyer with offices in Downers Grove; Thomas F. Sullivan Jr., a lawyer with offices in Wheaton; and Nancy Wolfe, chief of the civil-law division for the DuPage state’s attorney’s office. The county’s full circuit judges will meet next week Aug. 6 to narrow the field to two candidates before taking a vote.