Full Text of SR0426 96th General Assembly
SR0426 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Juliette Marie Ferguson, who passed away | 4 |
| on October 1, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Juliette Ferguson was born on January 15, 1965, in | 6 |
| Chicago; she was the third daughter of Henry Wordsworth | 7 |
| Ferguson and Gwendolyn Roddy Ferguson; and
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| WHEREAS, Juliette Ferguson attended John T. Pirie and | 9 |
| Arthur Dixon Elementary Schools; she then attended Whitney | 10 |
| Young High School, where she graduated with honors in 1981; | 11 |
| after high school, she attended Northwestern University, where | 12 |
| she earned her undergraduate degree with distinction in 1986, | 13 |
| and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she earned | 14 |
| her juris doctorate degree in 1989; and
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| WHEREAS, Juliette Ferguson participated in numerous | 16 |
| extracurricular activities during her academic career; she was | 17 |
| a co-captain of the cheerleading team, a member of the Student | 18 |
| Government Association and the National Honor Society, and the | 19 |
| vice-president of the Honors Club; she was voted Homecoming | 20 |
| Queen and Most Ambitious during her senior year of high school; | 21 |
| she won the Miss Black Chicago Beauty Pageant in 1986; she also | 22 |
| served as National Vice-President of the Black American Law |
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| Students Association at the University of Michigan; and
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| WHEREAS, Juliette Ferguson worked for noted black | 3 |
| journalist Vernon Jarrett during the early days of her career; | 4 |
| in 2003, she became the Associate General Counsel for the City | 5 |
| Colleges of Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, Juliette Ferguson was very passionate about | 7 |
| theater and the performing arts; she appeared in productions of | 8 |
| the Buffalo Theater Ensemble, The African Company, and the ETA | 9 |
| Creative Arts Association; she earned a Jefferson Citation | 10 |
| nomination in 1991 for her performance as Corky in Stoops; she | 11 |
| participated in dance classes at the Lou Conte and Joel Hall | 12 |
| dance studios; she performed in numerous voice-overs and | 13 |
| television commercials; in 2008, she starred in the independent | 14 |
| film Self Determination, which was shown at film festivals in | 15 |
| Milwaukee and Los Angeles; and
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| WHEREAS, Juliette Ferguson is survived by her mother, | 17 |
| Gwendolyn; her sister, Melanie Ferguson Lobdell; her | 18 |
| brother-in-law, Willie Lobdell; her aunt, Harriette Roddy | 19 |
| Brown; her nieces, Nicole Parrott, R'Mani Gamble, and Wendy | 20 |
| Lobdell; her nephews, David Moss and Willie Lobdell; her | 21 |
| cousins, Madelynne Brown, Sharmon Wilkinson, Brian and | 22 |
| Christopher Wilkinson, Lisa Brown Tribbett, Charles Tribbett, | 23 |
| Jillian Tribbett, Charles Tribbett, Jr., Jason Tribbett, Bert |
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| Roddy III, Bert Roddy IV, Sydney Roddy, Sharon Gill, Tonese | 2 |
| Gill-Woodie, Amber Woodie, Tshaye Taylor, Lauretta Travis, | 3 |
| Albert Travis III, Albert Travis IV, Adam Travis, Allison | 4 |
| Travis, Mariana Mason, and Sister Mary Annunciata; and | 5 |
| WHEREAS, Juliette Ferguson will be remembered by all who | 6 |
| knew and loved her as a warm, nurturing, articulate, | 7 |
| compassionate, and inspiring person who enriched the lives of | 8 |
| everyone she met; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 10 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 11 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Juliette Marie Ferguson; | 12 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 |
| presented to the family of Juliette Ferguson as an expression | 15 |
| of our sympathy.
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