Full Text of HR0703 96th General Assembly
HR0703 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, John Marshall Law School was founded in 1899 on | 3 |
| the principle that, in a healthy democracy, the study of the | 4 |
| law should be available to all qualified students; and
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| WHEREAS, John Marshall, a non-profit law school, has | 6 |
| honored its mission of access and opportunity from its earliest | 7 |
| years, when the first graduating classes included women and | 8 |
| African Americans, to the present, with the most recent class | 9 |
| made up of 46% women and 29% minorities; and
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| WHEREAS, John Marshall consistently ranks among the best | 11 |
| law schools in the nation for legal writing and trial advocacy, | 12 |
| core skills for training the next generations of successful | 13 |
| lawyers; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1993, John Marshall opened its Fair Housing | 15 |
| Clinic to provide pro bono legal representation to those | 16 |
| impacted by housing discrimination; and
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| WHEREAS, In 2008, John Marshall opened its Veterans Legal | 18 |
| Support Center and Clinic to provide pro bono legal | 19 |
| representation to our returning service members as they fought | 20 |
| for their disability benefits; and
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| WHEREAS, John Marshall has enjoyed a long tradition of | 2 |
| alumni serving in the public sector; nearly one-fifth of the | 3 |
| judiciary in the State of Illinois and numerous current General | 4 |
| Assembly members, including Senators Michael Noland and Ira | 5 |
| Silverstein and Representatives Franco Coladipietro, Michael | 6 |
| Connelly, Jim Durkin, Careen Gordon, Andre Thapedi, and Michael | 7 |
| Zalewski, are all former graduates of the school; and
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| WHEREAS, John Marshall is also proud of its alumni who have | 9 |
| served in the United States Congress, including John W. Cox, | 10 |
| Thomas E. Ewing, and George E. Sangmeister; and
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| WHEREAS, George Sangmeister was born in Frankfort, and | 12 |
| graduated from Joliet Junior College in 1951; he went on to | 13 |
| serve our country in the United States Army as an infantryman | 14 |
| during the Korean War; he then came back and earned his | 15 |
| bachelor's degree from Elmhurst College in 1957; and
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| WHEREAS, George Sangmeister earned his LL.B. and J.D. | 17 |
| degrees at the John Marshall Law School; he then practiced law | 18 |
| at the firm of McKeown, Fitzgerald, Zollner, Buck, Hutchison, | 19 |
| and Ruttle in Joliet and Frankfort, where he reached the status | 20 |
| of Partner; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, George Sangmeister then represented the good | 22 |
| people of the Greater Will County Area as State's Attorney and |
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| Magistrate in the Circuit Court; he served in the General | 2 |
| Assembly as a State Representative from 1972 to 1976, and as a | 3 |
| State Senator from 1976 to 1987; he also served in Congress | 4 |
| from 1989 to 1995; and
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| WHEREAS, The law school, led by Dean John E. Corkery, Board | 6 |
| of Trustees President Leonard F. Amari, Foundation President | 7 |
| John R. Lee, and the Greater Will County Alumni, has | 8 |
| established the George E. Sangmeister Memorial Public Service | 9 |
| Scholarship to support those graduates, like George, who seek a | 10 |
| career in the public sector; and
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| WHEREAS, The George E. Sangmeister Memorial Public Service | 12 |
| Scholarship was presented at a gathering of Greater Will County | 13 |
| Alumni at a reception hosted at the law offices of Mahoney, | 14 |
| Silverman & Cross in Joliet, where George Sangmeister's widow, | 15 |
| Doris, and his son, Kurt, were present to announce the | 16 |
| scholarship; and
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| WHEREAS, At the same event, the law school celebrated the | 18 |
| distinguished careers of two members of the Class of 1951, | 19 |
| Judge John F. Cirricione and Judge William R. Penn, of the Will | 20 |
| County Circuit Court; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 22 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| congratulate the administration and faculty of John Marshall | 2 |
| Law School for its continuing commitment to train men and women | 3 |
| to serve the people of the State of Illinois; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That we recognize the distinguished career of | 5 |
| George E. Sangmeister and the exemplary service he gave to the | 6 |
| legal profession and the State of Illinois; and be it further | 7 |
| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 8 |
| presented to Mrs. Doris H. Sangmeister and the John Marshall | 9 |
| Law School Board of Trustees as a symbol of our esteem and | 10 |
| respect.
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