Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, announced that the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit judges voted to select Carl E. Metz, II as an associate judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit.

Mr. Metz received his undergraduate degree in 1991 from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois and his Juris Doctor in 1994 from Lewis & Clark, Northwestern School of Law in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Metz is currently affiliated with Metz Law LLC dba Metz & Vaclavek LLC (fka Metz, Gilmore & Vaclavek LLC) in Crystal Lake, Illinois.