Illinois Supreme Court Justice Rita Garman, a Republican who became only the second woman to sit on the state’s highest court and later was the second woman to serve as chief justice, will retire in July.
Garman, a 78-year-old Danville resident, holds the Supreme Court seat for the 4th Judicial District, which covers a broad swath of central Illinois. But the redrawn map moves her into the new 5th District, which stretches from Champaign County to the southern tip of the state. The seat is held by Justice David Overstreet, also a Republican.
Since graduating from the University of Iowa’s law school in 1968, Garman said she has faced “many uphill challenges” in her legal career, which took her from being an assistant state’s attorney in Vermilion County to leading the state’s high court as chief justice from 2013 through 2016. Along the way, she also worked in private practice and was a judge at the circuit and appellate court level.
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