PEORIA â It's not lost on Kate Gorman that her tenure as chief judge of the 10th Judicial Circuit is historic, but she doesn't want to dwell on that. Rather, Gorman doesn't want to just be known as the first woman to head the five counties that compose the circuit, nor does she want to be known as the first child of a former chief judge â her father, John Gorman, served as chief from 1994 to 1998. The 52-year-old mother of two wants to be known as "someone who is coming to work, trying to do the right thing and trying to do my job," she said. "I think that it just adds another layer of experience ... that others might not have."