Full Text of HR0800 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the Honorable Fred | 4 | | L. Foreman on the occasion of his retirement as Chief Judge of | 5 | | Lake County; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Judge Foreman has an extensive employment history | 7 | | within the legal community; he served as Assistant Lake County | 8 | | Public Defender from 1974 to 1976, Assistant Lake County States | 9 | | Attorney from 1976-1979, solo practitioner in Lake County from | 10 | | 1979-1980, States Attorney for Lake County from 1980 to 1990, | 11 | | United States Attorney of Lake County for the Northern District | 12 | | of Illinois from 1990 to 1993, senior partner at Freeborn & | 13 | | Peters from 1993 to 2004, Circuit Judge Lake County from 2004 | 14 | | to present, Deputy Chief Judge from 2007 to 2008, Presiding | 15 | | Judge Felony Division from 2008 to 2010, Acting Chief Judge | 16 | | from 2010 to 2011, Chief Judge Elect from 2011 to 2012, and | 17 | | Chief Judge from 2012 to 2014; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Judge Foreman has been involved in numerous | 19 | | professional associations; he has been involved with Leading | 20 | | Lawyers of Illinois, the Illinois State Bar Association | 21 | | (Assembly Member), the Chicago Bar Association, the Federal Bar | 22 | | Association, the Lake County Bar Association (Board of | 23 | | Directors), Jefferson Inn of Lake County (President, Board of |
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| 1 | | Directors), the American Bar Association (Criminal Justice | 2 | | Council), the Wisconsin State Bar Association, the National | 3 | | District Attorney's Association (Treasurer, President, | 4 | | Chairman of the Board), the National Association of Former U.S. | 5 | | Attorneys (Board of Directors), the Distinguished Faculty | 6 | | National College of District Attorneys Houston, Texas Bates | 7 | | College of Law, the Illinois States Attorneys Association (past | 8 | | President), the United States Attorney General's Appointee to | 9 | | the Executive Working Group, the Supreme Court of Illinois | 10 | | Appointment to the Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions in | 11 | | Criminal Cases, the Governor's Appointment to the Illinois | 12 | | Criminal Justice Information Authority, the House Speaker's | 13 | | Appointment to the Illinois Sentencing Commission, the | 14 | | Governor's Appointment as Chairman to the Department of | 15 | | Corrections Committee on Detention Standards, the Near North | 16 | | National Group (past Chairman of the Board), the Illinois | 17 | | Judges Association (Board of Directors, the Illinois Judges | 18 | | Foundation (Board of Directors), and the Illinois Supreme Court | 19 | | Appointment to the 2010 Education Conference; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Judge Foreman has been a part of many community | 21 | | organizations; he has been on the Board of Directors of the | 22 | | National Commission on Correctional Healthcare, the United Way | 23 | | of Lake County, the Boy Scouts of America, The Lambs Farm, the | 24 | | YMCA, Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and the American | 25 | | Prosecutors Research Institute; he has served as President of |
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| 1 | | the Lake County Republican Federation and been an elected | 2 | | delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1984 and | 3 | | 1988; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Judge Foreman has published legal writings | 5 | | through the Distinguished Faculty National College of District | 6 | | Attorney Bates College of Law, the University of Houston, and | 7 | | the College of Lake County; he has lectured at the National | 8 | | College of District Attorney's Advocacy on Management, Ethics, | 9 | | and Administration; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Judge Foreman has been married for 42 years; he | 11 | | has one son and 3 grandchildren and resides in Lake County and | 12 | | Door County, Wisconsin; he was born in 1948 and received his | 13 | | Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts in 1971 from Carroll | 14 | | College in Waukesha, Wisconsin and his Juris Doctor from The | 15 | | John Marshall Law School in 1974; he was admitted to the State | 16 | | of Illinois Bar in 1974, the United States Court of | 17 | | Appeals-Seventh Circuit in 1974, the United States Supreme | 18 | | Court Bar in 1981, and the State of Wisconsin Bar in 1997; | 19 | | therefore, be it
| 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 21 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 22 | | we congratulate the Honorable Fred L. Foreman on his retirement | 23 | | as Chief Judge of Lake County; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Judge Foreman as an expression of our esteem | 3 | | respect.
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