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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Ann Callis</p>           Circuit Judge Ann Callis has been elected to serve a two-year term as chief judge of Madison County. She will replace Circuit Judge Edward Ferguson, who served nearly three years as chief, on May 1. <br /><br />A secret ballot vote was conducted at a circuit judges meeting today. <br /><br />Callis, of Troy, was appointed judge in December 1999 at age 35 after the death of 3rd Circuit Judge J. Lawrence Keshner.<br /><br />She is the daughter of powerful Madison County plaintiff's attorney Lance Callis.<br /><br />Ann Callis previously served as an associate judge from 1994 to 1999. <br /><br />She graduated St. Louis University School of Law in 1990.<br /><br />Callis also was: <br /><br /><li>Former clerk to Illinois Supreme Court Justice Horace Calvo;<br /><br /><li>Formerly assistant state's attorney in Madison and St. Clair Counties; and<br /><br /><li>Practiced privately with attorney Bruce Cook of Belleville and for her father, Lance Callis, in Granite City. <br /><br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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