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Timothy C. Evans

1943–

United States

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Timothy C. Evans (born June 1, 1943) is an American attorney, politician, former alderman and the former Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court. Evans is noted as the first African-American Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court. A graduate of the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Evans was first elected to the bench in 1992, and was selected by his fellow judges as Chief Judge in 2001.

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