Attorney Audrey Avila interviews Justice Aurelia Pucinski(Appellate Court,Cook County) who is a Candidate for Supreme Court Judge. WWW.PUCINSKI.ORG Judge Aurelia Pucinski Judge Aurelia Pucinski was elected to the Illinois Appellate Court 1st District in 2010. She served as a Circuit Court Judge in Cook County from 2004 to 2010. As a trial judge she heard more than 10,000 domestic violence cases and developed the program to provide extra protection and services to senior citizen victims of domestic violence. She then followed with an assignment hearing adoptions, mental health, election and property tax deed cases. She is particularly interested in the law as it affects senior citizens and the disabled and has been appointed by the Supreme Court to teach judges about elder abuse. She served as Clerk of the Court from 1988 to 2000 where two of her major accomplishments were getting child support checks processed in record time and computerizing courtrooms. She started practicing law in 1976 in a neighborhood law office where she developed a reputation for pro bono work, including representing parents who sued the Chicago Board of Education to keep a local school open; a case she won in the Appellate Court. A native Chicagoan, Judge Pucinski is a graduate of DePaul College of Law. Less