CBA Record September-October 2022

PRESIDENT’S PAGE BY TIMOTHY S. TOMASIK Judicial Security: The Judicial System is Blinking Red*

The Chicago Bar Association www.chicagobar.org President Timothy S. Tomasik First Vice President Ray J. Koenig III Second Vice President John C. Sciaccotta OFFICERS

to their duty to protect. These dedicated deputies should not be criticized for the administrative failure of our courthouses being understaffed by security personnel. We are all cognizant of the brutal murders of Wisconsin Judge John Roemer in May, Judge Raymond Myles in 2017, and, of course, U.S. District !/(+) ](VQU ]/s0 ZUSM/p5* P(*rs0V s0V 2/)PU+ O0 JccGe #0/)PU+ POQPf-+/uLU 'O/LU0) s))sWM /WW(++UV O0 JcJc rn s *ULSf VU*W+OrUV s0)OfSU2O0O*) s))/+0Ung pP/ shot and killed the son of New Jersey Federal Judge Esther Salas while she ps* s) PU+ P/2Ue _U+ */05* u0sL p/+V* pU+U

Secretary Kathryn Carso Liss

Treasurer Nina Fain

Immediate Past President E. Lynn Grayson

Executive Director Beth McMeen

A recent poll by the National Judicial College found that 71% of judges received an inappropriate commu f nication related to their position and that 56% reported being threatened. According to the U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. judges faced over 4,500 threats in 2021 alone. This represents an alarming 400% increase in the number of threats to the judiciary over the Ls*) u'U nUs+*e Today, every judge, attorney, court clerk, court reporter, juror, sheriff, and citizen who walks into a courthouse is at a sub f stantially higher risk of being the victim of a violent attack as compared to 2010. This past July, a disturbed man violently kicked open a locked courtroom door at the Daley Center where a court clerk was hard at work. No sheriff was in sight until sheriffs from other assignments arrived and arrested the dangerous intruder. Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans VU*W+OrUV )PU U'U0) s*

BOARD OF MANAGERS Michael Alkaraki Louis G. Apostol Octavio Duran