Rule 14.26 - APPOINTMENT, QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPENSATION OF MEDIATORS(a) No person shall serve as a Mediator, in any matter referred to mediation hereunder, if they have a potential conflict of interest or unless they have first satisfied the requirements necessary to be recognized as a Mediator hereunder.(b) The Presiding Judge of Chancery, or their designee, shall appoint mediators from a roster of approved Mediators, which shall be established by the Court.(c) All eviction mediators shall successfully complete either (1) a minimum of forty (40) hours mediation training skills program, the content of which is acceptable to the Presiding Judge of Chancery, or their designee, plus an additional four (4) hour eviction mediation training which shall be approved by the Court or (2) they shall successfully complete an eight (8) hours eviction mediation training which shall be approved by the Court. Additionally, eviction mediators shall possess either (i) a Juris Doctor degree with demonstrated experience or (ii) a background in mediation with experience acceptable to the Court.(d) The Approved List of Mediators will be updated from time to time to add the names of new members and remove those who either no longer qualify or who the Presiding Judge of Chancery determines have been unable to participate in this program to the extent they were initially expected to do so.(e) A Mediator, approved and certified by this Circuit and acting pursuant to these Rules, shall have judicial immunity as provided for in Illinois Supreme Court Rule 99(b).(f) The Presiding Judge of Chancery (or, at the Presiding Judge's direction, the Program) has the discretion to determine the frequency and order of assignment of mediation cases to mediators on the roster of approved Mediators.(h) A Mediator shall be compensated according to the rate established by the Court.Ill. R. Cir. Ct. Dupage Cnty. 14.26