BENTON - U.S. Magistrate Judge Reona Daly is up for a second term of eight years after her current term ends in September.
Lawyers and regular citizens may comment on Daly's reappointment. The court will receive comments by mail or at reappointment_comments@ilsd.uscourts.gov through Feb. 7.
District judges selected her to serve as a magistrate judge in 2016 after she spent six years as associate general counsel for Southern Illinois University.
Daly graduated from the university’s law school in 1994.
Magistrate judges conduct preliminary proceedings in criminal cases and preside over applications for search warrants.
They also handle pretrial matters and evidentiary proceedings on delegation from district judges, presiding over civil cases upon consent of the parties.
Daly currently presides over a suit that mother Robyn Pfershy filed against O’Fallon High School and state education superintendent Tony Sanders in October.
Pfershy claims the school failed to accommodate her daughter’s disability and mistreated her.
She claims Sanders approved the school’s conduct.
Daly also presides over criminal charges against Alexia Willie, who allegedly threatened to injure or kill 14 individuals for their opinions about transgender persons.