Bill Text: IL HR0491 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Fourth District Appellate Court Justice M. Carol Pope on her retirement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-21 - Resolution Adopted [HR0491 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0491-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Fourth District Appellate | ||||||
4 | Court Justice M. Carol Pope of Petersburg on the occasion of | ||||||
5 | her retirement on August 1, 2017; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Justice Pope received her undergraduate degree | ||||||
7 | from the University of Illinois, where she
graduated Phi Beta | ||||||
8 | Kappa, magna cum laude, and was named to the Bronze Tablet, the
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9 | university's highest recognition of academic excellence, in | ||||||
10 | 1975; she obtained her Juris Doctor,
with honor, from DePaul | ||||||
11 | University School of Law in 1979, where she was an editor of | ||||||
12 | the Law
Review; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Justice Pope served as a law clerk to United | ||||||
14 | States District Judge J. Waldo Ackerman in the Central District
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15 | of Illinois from 1979 to 1983; from 1983 to 1984, she was an | ||||||
16 | attorney with Mayer, Brown and Platt in
Chicago; she was | ||||||
17 | elected Menard County State's Attorney in 1984 and 1988; in | ||||||
18 | 1991, she was
appointed a resident circuit judge of Menard | ||||||
19 | County by the Supreme Court of Illinois and was
elected to that | ||||||
20 | position in 1992 and retained in 1998, 2004, and 2010; she was | ||||||
21 | assigned to the
Appellate Court on December 1, 2008 and elected | ||||||
22 | to a full term in 2012; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Justice Pope served as chair of the Supreme | ||||||
2 | Court's Committee on Strategic Planning for three
years; she is | ||||||
3 | a past president of the Illinois Judges Association and served | ||||||
4 | as a member of the
Executive Committee and as chair of the | ||||||
5 | Committee on Education of the Illinois Judicial
Conference; she | ||||||
6 | is a member of the Illinois Judges Association, the Illinois | ||||||
7 | State Bar Association,
and the Sangamon and Menard County Bar | ||||||
8 | Associations; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Justice Pope and her husband, Al, have two
sons | ||||||
10 | and four grandsons; therefore, be it
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11 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
12 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
13 | congratulate Fourth District Appellate Court Justice M. Carol | ||||||
14 | Pope on her retirement, and we wish her the best in all her | ||||||
15 | future endeavors; and be it further
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16 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
17 | presented to Justice Pope as an expression of our esteem and | ||||||
18 | respect.
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