1. Judy Koehler was born on September 20,1941 and is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Appellate Court Justice.
12 Facts About Judy Koehler
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Judy Koehler received the most votes in the primary, in which the two candidates receiving the most votes were nominated.
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Judy Koehler received the most votes in the general election, in which the three candidates receiving the most votes were elected.
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Judy Koehler first represented the 45th district, but after the Cutback Amendment was redistricted into the 89th district with fellow incumbent Republican Representative John "Jay" Ackerman.
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Judy Koehler served as Representative for the 89th district until 1987.
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Judy Koehler opposed the $8,000 a year pay raise that the legislature voted to give itself in a lame-duck session in 1978, and returned $8,000 of her pay to the state treasury every year she was in office, returning a total of $48,000 over her 6 years in office.
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Judy Koehler defeated Inland Steel executive George Ranneywik in the Republican primary, but was unable to oust incumbent Alan Dixon in the general election.
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Judy Koehler was succeeded in the Illinois House of Representatives by John "Jay" Ackerman, who she had defeated in the 1982 Republican primary for the seat.
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In 1992, a graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Judy Koehler was admitted to the Illinois State Bar.
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In 1994, Koehler ran for US Congress in Illinois's 18th congressional district to replace the retiring Republican Robert H Michel.
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Judy Koehler lost in the primary to Michel's Chief of Staff and endorsed successor Ray LaHood.
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In May 1998, Judy Koehler was appointed to the Illinois Appellate Court by Illinois Supreme Court Justice James Heiple, to fill the vacancy of Michael McCuskey, who had become a federal judge.