Sixteen new Cook County associate judges were named today, leaving one spot still up for grabs.The final vacancy will be decided in a runoff after Levander Smith Jr. and James A. Wright received the same number of votes, the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts announced in a news release.Smith is a litigation attorney at the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services and Wright is of counsel at Chico & Nunes P.C.An Illinois Supreme Court spokesperson said a runoff has not happened “in recent …