Full Text of HR0574 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate the Honorable Rita B. | 4 | | Garman on the occasion of being selected as the 119th Chief | 5 | | Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Rita Garman is a native of the State of Illinois; | 7 | | she was born in November of 1943 in Aurora and educated in | 8 | | Aurora public schools; she was the class valedictorian at | 9 | | Oswego High School in 1961 and graduated with highest honors | 10 | | from the University of Illinois in 1965; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Choosing to pursue a legal career, Rita Garman | 12 | | entered the University of Iowa College of Law, where she | 13 | | graduated with honors in 1968; she practiced law in both the | 14 | | public sector and the private sector in Danville; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, As a jurist, Rita Garman has served in almost | 16 | | literally every level of the Illinois bench; she served as an | 17 | | Associate Circuit Judge from 1974 to 1986, a Circuit Judge in | 18 | | the Fifth Judicial Circuit from 1986 to 1995, which included | 19 | | service as the Presiding Circuit Judge from 1987 to 1995, and | 20 | | an Appellate Judge from 1995 to 2001; she was selected to serve | 21 | | as a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court on February 1, 2001; | 22 | | and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, When Rita Garman graduated from law school in | 2 | | 1968, only 3% of lawyers in the United States were women; | 3 | | today, more than 40% of each annual class of law graduates in | 4 | | the United States are women, due in part to the work done by | 5 | | pioneers in law and jurisprudence such as the Honorable Rita | 6 | | Garman; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Rita Garman has become the most recent of the many | 8 | | graduates of, and teachers at, Oswego High School to achieve | 9 | | the highest honors in the public service of the State of | 10 | | Illinois and the United States; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, On September 12, 2013, Rita Garman was selected by | 12 | | her colleagues to serve as the 119th Chief Justice of the | 13 | | Illinois Supreme Court, succeeding the Honorable Thomas | 14 | | Kilbride; she will begin her new duties on October 26, 2013; | 15 | | therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 18 | | we congratulate the Honorable Rita B. Garman upon the honorable | 19 | | progress of her juridical career and the example which she has | 20 | | set for Illinois lawyers at every level of the profession; and | 21 | | be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to the Honorable Rita Garman as a token of the | 3 | | respect she has earned from the Illinois House of | 4 | | Representatives for the juridical work to which she has | 5 | | dedicated her life.
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