About Elizabeth Monkus

Elizabeth Monkus (she/her) is the Senior Attorney & Project Director for Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts. Elizabeth came to Chicago Appleseed in 2010 to manage the Judicial Performance Commission Demonstration project. She currently focuses on domestic relations and judicial elections in her program work.

Elections and Judicial Integrity

Last week, the Sun-Times ran a piece about the new pension-reform law, examining the overlap judicial election campaign contributors and pension-stakeholders, in the context of a potential lawsuit challenging the pension-reform law. The piece raises some important questions of how judicial campaign...
January 7, 2014

An Open Letter from Community-Based Service Providers

You may be aware that the Chicago Transit Authority  will end its program to help ex-offenders gain work experience cleaning rail cars and buses on Dec. 31. We received the following “open letter” from the John Howard Association of Illinois this morning, urging that the program be saved. At Chicag...
December 12, 2013

Texas Expands Discipline Options for its Commission on Judicial Performance

Yesterday was an off-year election and few state and local ballot measures generated much national interest. However, there was an interesting judicial ballot initiative: Proposition 9 in Texas to amended the state constitution to expand the actions available to the Texas State Commission on Judicia...
November 7, 2013

Fall Fundraising Campaign

We're preparing to launch our end of the year fundraising campaign and we hope you will support our work. This list of accomplishments shows what your donation allows us to do. You can contribute online or through the mail using our reply form. If you would like to provide pro bono assistance, we...
November 6, 2013

Court Records Modernization

WBEZ recently reported on Sheriff Tom Dart’s criticism of the Cook County Clerk of the Court’s office for an antiquated records system. A radio report on the station this week mentioned that the Clerks Office’s modernization plan is over ten years old now. The Office of the State Appellate Defender...
October 30, 2013
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