The Illinois Supreme Court announced today that Schuyler, Roche & Crisham shareholder Jean M. Prendergast has been appointed to the Cook County Circuit Court, effective Dec. 3. Prendergast is the President of the Illinois Appellate Lawyers Association and has written about Illinois Supreme Court decisions for this blog. She is a 1994 graduate of the Loyola University Chicago School of Law and has clerked for Illinois Supreme Court Justices Mary Ann McMorrow and Mary Jane Theis (while as an Appellate Justice).