Full Text of SR0267 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of
the Honorable Charles William Chapman of | 4 | | Edwardsville, who passed away on May 15, 2011; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Charles Chapman was born on February 18, 1942, in | 6 | | Granite City; he was the son of the late Earl William and Mabel | 7 | | Aileen, nee Huddleston, Chapman; he married Judith Ann, nee | 8 | | Severine, Chapman on November 23, 1963, at St. John Lutheran | 9 | | Church in Granite City; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Charles Chapman received his bachelor's degree in | 11 | | chemistry from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville in | 12 | | 1963 and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from St. Louis University | 13 | | in 1967; he subsequently completed his coursework for his | 14 | | master's degree in economics in 1980 and earned his Master of | 15 | | Law degree from the University of Virginia School Of Law in | 16 | | 1992; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Charles Chapman served as a chemist at the V.A. | 18 | | Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri; he practiced law at the | 19 | | Chapman and Chapman Law Office in Granite City for 12 years; he | 20 | | then served as a Circuit Judge in the Third Judicial Circuit in | 21 | | Madison County from 1979 to 1988; in 1988, he was elected to | 22 | | the Illinois Appellate Court Fifth District, where he served |
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| 1 | | until 2001; he also served as an adjunct professor at St. Louis | 2 | | University Law School from 1982 to 2001 and was a partner at | 3 | | LakinChapman LLC Law Firm in Wood River since 2001; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Charles Chapman was admitted to the Illinois Bar | 5 | | Association in 1967; he was admitted to practice before the | 6 | | U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit in 1969 and before the United | 7 | | States Supreme Court in 1979; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Charles Chapman was selected as an Outstanding | 9 | | State Trial Judge in the U.S. by the Association of Trial | 10 | | Lawyers of America; he was also the co-author of two books on | 11 | | legal issues; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Charles Chapman was a member of Zion Lutheran | 13 | | Church in Carpenter; he enjoyed reading, cooking, and | 14 | | traveling; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Charles Chapman was preceded in death by his | 16 | | parents and his brother-in-law, Loren "Curly" Springs; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Charles Chapman is survived by his wife, Judith | 18 | | Ann; his children, Christina, Thomas, and Sarah; his | 19 | | grandchildren, Samuel William Chapman, Silas Jerome Chapman, | 20 | | Eleanor Chapman Baker, Charles John Chapman Utgaard, and | 21 | | Margaret Utgaard; his sisters and brothers-in-law, Patricia |
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| 1 | | and Duane Crews, Carol Sue Springs, and Sharon Kaye and Jim | 2 | | Hargraves; his brother-in-law and sisters-in-law, John and | 3 | | Dessa Severine and Janet Severine; and his many extended family | 4 | | members and friends; therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 6 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 7 | | his family and friends, the passing of Charles William Chapman; | 8 | | and be it further
| 9 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 10 | | presented to the family of Charles Chapman as an expression of | 11 | | our sympathy.
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