Judge Stephen J. Culliton (ret.) (JD ’70) has been selected to serve a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of The John Marshall Law School.
Culliton is replacing Bruce Meckler of Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson LLP, who completed 12 years on the board.
“I am delighted to be asked to share my expertise with a distinguished board that is making important decisions about the operation of this fine institution,” said Culliton. “Over the decades hundreds of attorneys have been educated here and are serving as role models for our current student body.”
Culliton has had a distinguished career in government, private practice and the judiciary. He started his career as an assistant state’s attorney in DuPage County. After three years in public service, he practiced law for the next 22 years with the firm Civinelli, Bakalis & Culliton. From 1995 through 1998, Culliton was chief of staff in the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.
In 1998, Culliton was appointed an associate judge in the 18th Judicial Circuit serving DuPage County. In 2000, the Illinois Supreme Court appointed him a full circuit court judge, but he left the bench in 2001 to manage the gubernatorial campaign of Illinois Attorney General James Ryan. In 2002, Culliton was again appointed to the bench, and in 2008 his fellow judges elected him chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit. He served until December 2011.
He is a past president of the DuPage County Bar Association, and was the organization’s general counsel from 1991 to 1994.
