Mark M. Boie was born in June of 1967, and has been a resident of Union County for almost his entire life. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Mississippi in Oxford and his Juris Doctor degree from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating law school, Justice Boie joined his father, Wesley L. Boie, in the general practice of law in Anna, Illinois. He also served as a conflict public defender in Union, Pulaski and Johnson counties.
Justice Boie was elected the Resident Circuit Judge of Union County in November 2000, and was retained to that position in 2006, 2012 and 2018. While on the trial court, he presided over all types of criminal, civil, family, juvenile and mental health cases. Justice Boie was assigned to the Fifth District Appellate Court on May 1, 2019, and was elected to a full term on the Court in 2020.
Justice Boie is currently the Fifth District Appellate Court’s representative on the Appellate Court Administrative Committee. He is a member of the Special Supreme Court Advisory Committee for Justice and Mental Health Planning, was Co-Chairman of its Compliance-Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code Sub-Committee and now serves as Co-Chairman of its Fitness for Trial Sub-Committee. He is a member of the Supreme Court of Illinois Judicial College Committee on Judicial Education. He also serves on numerous committees and task forces, is a faculty member of the Judicial Education Conference and other webinars and was a First Judicial Circuit Mentor for new judges.
Judge Boie and his wife, Emily, have three children – Nicolas, Kaelyn and Peyton.