The Hon. William S. Dickenson is an at-large circuit judge for the 21st Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois. Dickenson was elected to the bench on November 4, 2020, filling a vacancy created by the retirement of the Hon. Clark Erickson.
The 21st Judicial Circuit includes Kankakee and Iroquois counties.
Prior to his election, Dickenson was an associate judge for the 21st Judicial Circuit, a position to which he was named in 2018. Before that, he worked for twenty-seven years as an assistant state’s attorney with the Kankakee County State’s Attorney’s Office. For twenty of those years, he held an assignment as the first assistant state's attorney.
Dickenson earned a B.A. in psychology from Indiana University Bloomington in 1987. He then completed a J.D. at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1990. He was admitted to practice in Illinois (1990).
A resident of Bourbonnais, Dickenson and his wife, Kelly, have two children. Kelly is a teacher for the Bradley School District.
He is registered as a Republican.
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