Justice Clare J. Quish was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to the Circuit Court of Cook County in June 2016, elected in 2018 and retained in 2024. In September 2025, the Illinois Supreme Court assigned her to the Illinois Appellate Court.
Prior to this assignment, Justice Quish presided over a call in the General Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County and previously served in the First Municipal District, initially in Traffic and then in both the Jury and Non-Jury Sections of that division. Previously, Justice Quish was a partner at Schuyler, Roche & Crisham, P.C., where she concentrated in appellate practice and commercial and civil litigation representing businesses, professionals and insurers. She is a former Adjunct Professor of Appellate Advocacy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Justice Quish is a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission Rules and Policy Review Committee, a subcommittee of the Access to Justice Committee. She is the Vice-Chair to the Illinois Judicial College Committee on Circuit Court Clerk Education, a member of the Supreme Court Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee and a co-chair of the Illinois Judges Association’s Educational Programming Committee. She also is involved with judicial education, teaching a class on small claims cases to new judges as well as editing a judicial benchbook. Judge Quish previously served as President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Appellate Lawyers Association.
Justice Quish received her B.A. from Northwestern University and her J.D., cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.