Vinton tops pile again

First Assistant State's Attorney Norm Vinton once again came out on top of the pile of candidates for judgeships in McHenry County. Norm scored a 80.28% of "opinionated responses saying 'yes'," according to this morning's Northwest Herald. Congratulations, Norm.

Vinton joined the McHenry County State's Attorney's Office just last February from his position as partner in the Woodstock law firm of Michling Hofmann Vinton Plaza & Wick (now, Michling Hofmann Plaza & Wick, P.C.).

Chris Harmon copped second place with 76.4%. Good job, Chris!

 The opinions were from McHenry County attorneys. Now the judges get to decide who will really be annointed (errr, appointed) and awarded the two open spots in our court system.

The newspaper named the top five, the bottom-scoring five (why would the paper do that?), one who didn't draw enough "opinionated responses" to be ranked, and that one (unnamed) had withdrawn.

So that's 12 out of the 24 who had thrown their hats into the ring. Why do you suppose the paper didn't just print all the names and rankings? The 24 attorneys who applied were:

Neil O. Anderson, Anne K. Brophy, Tiffany E. Davis, Mark R. Facchini, Robert W. Fetzner, Raymond M. Flavin, Kristen N. Foley, Adrian M. Gosch, Robert T. Hanlon, Christopher M. Harmon, Richard H. Jackson, Denise M. Kuzniewski, Cynthia D. Lamb, Gerald P. Lenzen, James K. McBride, Mary E. McClellan, George A. Mueller, Mary H. Nader, Jeannie M. Ridings, Cynthia A. Schaupp, Demetrios P. Tsilimigras, Norman D. Vinton, Marjorie L. Worth, and Sally J. Zimmerman.