Full Text of HR1365 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Steve Ferguson on | 4 | | the occasion of his retirement as the State's Attorney for | 5 | | Coles County; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson has been the State's Attorney for | 7 | | Coles County for 20 years; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, During Steve Ferguson's time in office, felony | 9 | | filings have more than doubled, prison sentences have been | 10 | | imposed for the most deserving, and restitution collected for | 11 | | victims has exceeded more than $2 million; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson's has been the State's Attorney for | 13 | | Coles County since 1992; he was in private practice from | 14 | | 1983-1992 with Heller, Holmes, and Associates; he taught | 15 | | business law at Lake Land College from 1989-1992 and was a law | 16 | | clerk for the Honorable Kenneth Meyers, U.S. Magistrate Judge, | 17 | | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, | 18 | | 1982-1983; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson has numerous professional | 20 | | affiliations in the legal area, including completion of the | 21 | | Career Prosecutor Course-National College of District |
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| 1 | | Attorneys and Advanced Trial Advocacy program for career | 2 | | prosecutors-Illinois Appellate Prosecutors Office; he has | 3 | | served on the State Forensic Sciences Crime Laboratory Advisory | 4 | | Board, the Coles County Drug Court Steering Committee, the | 5 | | Children's Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois, the | 6 | | Illinois State Bar Association Assembly (ISBA), the ISBA | 7 | | Committee on Judicial Evaluation, the ISBA Juvenile Justice | 8 | | Section Council, and the ISBA Correctional Facilities and | 9 | | Services Committee; he is a member of the Illinois State's | 10 | | Attorneys Association, the National District Attorneys | 11 | | Association, the Association of Government Attorneys in | 12 | | Capital Litigation, the Prosecutors Bar Association, the | 13 | | Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Appellate Lawyers | 14 | | Association, the American Bar Association, and the State of | 15 | | Illinois Capital Litigation Trial Bar; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson is a 1982 graduate of the | 17 | | University of Illinois College of Law; he graduated from | 18 | | Millikin University in Decatur in 1979, where he was Summa Cum | 19 | | Laude, a James Millikin Scholar, and a member of the Phi Kappa | 20 | | Phi academic honor society; he was a 1975 graduate of Mattoon | 21 | | High School, where he was valedictorian; and | 22 | | WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson's retirement became official on | 23 | | November 30, 2012; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson is married to Melissa, and has two | 2 | | children, Tyler and Audra; therefore, be it | 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 4 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 5 | | we congratulate Steve Ferguson on his retirement as the State's | 6 | | Attorney for Coles County and we wish him all the best with his | 7 | | future endeavours; and be it further
| 8 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 | | presented to Steve Ferguson as an expression of our esteem and | 10 | | respect.
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