Honorable Allen S. Goldberg

Cook County Circuit Court Judge

Honorable Allen S. Goldberg was elected Circuit Judge of Cook County, Illinois in 1992. After seven years in the Domestic Relations Division, he transferred into the Law Division, where he now has an individual commercial calendar doing settlement conferences in business and commercial disputes. Prior to moving onto the bench, he worked for more than twenty years as a trial lawyer and chief administrator for defense and felony cases at the Cook County Public Defender Office. Judge Goldberg has been very active in the ADR field since 1998, when he attended mediation training at the National Judicial College and became a certified mediator in family mediation. Since then he has done facilitative mediation in custody disputes and has participated in training programs and conferences. Recently, he became a certified mediator for civil cases after completing the mediation training program at the National Judicial College and was in charge of establishing the Cook County Law Division Mediation Program. He also served on the Council of Chief Judges Ad Hoc Committee on the New Supreme Court Child Custody Rules, which proposed recommendations for rules that circuits can use as guides when developing their own child custody and visitation mediation programs in accordance with Illinois Supreme Court Rule 905.