Justice David Overstreet of Mt. Vernon has announced his intention to seek election to the Fifth District Appellate Court.

Overstreet successfully ran for election to the circuit court in 2008 and was retained in 2014.  He was assigned to the Fifth District Appellate Court in 2017.  Overstreet currently serves on the Supreme Court Judicial Mentoring Committee,the Supreme Court Strategic Planning Committee,the Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Education,and the Illinois Judges Association executive committee in addition to serving as chair of the Second Judicial Circuit’s professionalism committee and program administrator for its lawyer-to-lawyer mentoring program.

The 5th Appellate District is comprised of 37 counties in central and southern Illinois.