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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Chandra R. Walls is retiring from her position as
3 Deputy Chief Probation Officer with the Circuit Court of Cook
4 County, Juvenile Division after 32 years of service with the
5 court; and
 
6     WHEREAS, She received her Bachelor of Arts degree at
7 Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio and her Master of
8 Arts degree from Northeastern University in Chicago; and
 
9     WHEREAS, She began her career with the Circuit Court in
10 April of 1969 as a Probation Officer 1, and she was promoted to
11 Deputy Chief Probation officer in 2001; and
 
12     WHEREAS, As vice president of the Local, she was on the
13 first negotiating team that brought the first collective
14 bargaining agreement to the Juvenile Probation Division of the
15 Circuit Court of Cook County; she served as Vice President of
16 Local 3477 of the AFSCME labor union from 1990 to 2001; and
 
17     WHEREAS, Chandra Walls was one of the first to be certified
18 in the Family Therapy Program; she was one of the first to
19 volunteer for the Juvenile Advisory Committee; she served as
20 co-chair of the Performance Appraisal Committee; and she also
21 initiated the Girls Empowerment Program to Markham Circuit

 

 

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1 Court; and
 
2     WHEREAS, She is the wife of Charles, and together they
3 celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary on December 11, 2006;
4 she is the mother of Charles M. Walls and Monica Whitfield;
5 therefore, be it
 
6     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
7 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
8 thank Chandra R. Walls for her many years of devoted service to
9 the needs of children through her work at Juvenile Court, and
10 we offer our congratulations to her on the occasion of her
11 retirement; and be it further
 
12     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
13 presented to Chandra Walls as an expression of our deepest
14 respect and esteem and with best wishes for a relaxing
15 retirement.