A clerk assigned to the domestic violence courtroom in the south-suburban Markham courthouse filed a battery complaint against a judge previously accused of misconduct, telling Cook County Sheriff’s Police Department detectives the judge had pushed him away from his computer.
According to a report obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, the clerk alleged that Cook County Circuit Judge Ruth Gudino had pushed him “hard enough for him to lose his balance” after becoming frustrated with the pace of his work.
The clerk also wrote a date-stamped memo about the alleged July 16 incident and reported it to Markham’s presiding judge, Tommy Brewer…