Will County judge holds big lead in 3rd District Appellate Court race

Unofficial vote totals show a Democratic judge in Will County has a large lead over a Republican judge in DuPage County for the 3rd District Appellate Court race.

The appellate court covers seven counties in northeastern Illinois. Unofficial vote totals from those seven counties show Anderson with 424,146 votes and Skarin with 398,978.

In a statement, Anderson declared victory.

“We won,” he said. “I say ‘we’ because this wasn’t just about me. The winners are the patriotic people who value their liberty, rights and individual freedom.”

Anderson said he’s grateful to his family; his friends; and those who “donated, knocked [on] doors, made calls and wrote postcards.”

Anderson, a former Will County Board member, first became a judge in Will County when he defeated former Associate Judge Ray Nash in the 2010 election.

After emerging victorious from the primary last March, Anderson said he is “excited that Will County has an opportunity to have elected representation on the second-highest court in Illinois for the first time in history.”

In 2019, Skarin was appointed as a judge in DuPage County.

“I want to provide the world-class quality and work ethic I learned in private practice to help improve and guide the 3rd District court,” Skarin said in a statement announcing his candidacy. “The people of Illinois deserve nothing less.”