Full Text of HR0491 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Fourth District Appellate | 4 | | Court Justice M. Carol Pope of Petersburg on the occasion of | 5 | | her retirement on August 1, 2017; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Justice Pope received her undergraduate degree | 7 | | from the University of Illinois, where she
graduated Phi Beta | 8 | | Kappa, magna cum laude, and was named to the Bronze Tablet, the
| 9 | | university's highest recognition of academic excellence, in | 10 | | 1975; she obtained her Juris Doctor,
with honor, from DePaul | 11 | | University School of Law in 1979, where she was an editor of | 12 | | the Law
Review; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Justice Pope served as a law clerk to United | 14 | | States District Judge J. Waldo Ackerman in the Central District
| 15 | | of Illinois from 1979 to 1983; from 1983 to 1984, she was an | 16 | | attorney with Mayer, Brown and Platt in
Chicago; she was | 17 | | elected Menard County State's Attorney in 1984 and 1988; in | 18 | | 1991, she was
appointed a resident circuit judge of Menard | 19 | | County by the Supreme Court of Illinois and was
elected to that | 20 | | position in 1992 and retained in 1998, 2004, and 2010; she was | 21 | | assigned to the
Appellate Court on December 1, 2008 and elected | 22 | | to a full term in 2012; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Justice Pope served as chair of the Supreme | 2 | | Court's Committee on Strategic Planning for three
years; she is | 3 | | a past president of the Illinois Judges Association and served | 4 | | as a member of the
Executive Committee and as chair of the | 5 | | Committee on Education of the Illinois Judicial
Conference; she | 6 | | is a member of the Illinois Judges Association, the Illinois | 7 | | State Bar Association,
and the Sangamon and Menard County Bar | 8 | | Associations; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Justice Pope and her husband, Al, have two
sons | 10 | | and four grandsons; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 12 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 13 | | congratulate Fourth District Appellate Court Justice M. Carol | 14 | | Pope on her retirement, and we wish her the best in all her | 15 | | future endeavors; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to Justice Pope as an expression of our esteem and | 18 | | respect.
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