Full Text of HR0680 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Steven R. Bordner on the | 4 | | occasion of his retirement as a judge for the 9th Judicial | 5 | | Circuit; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Judge Bordner was born in Peoria on August 20, | 7 | | 1955; he graduated from Farmington High School in 1973; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Judge Bordner attended Illinois College from 1973 | 9 | | to 1977, majoring in history and English; he participated in | 10 | | the intercollegiate
debate program for 4 years, placed 6th in | 11 | | the National Intercollegiate Debate Tournament in Seattle
| 12 | | Washington in 1977, and defeated every Ivy League school at | 13 | | least once during his 4 years of
competition; he was actively | 14 | | engaged in student government, a member of the Pi Pi Rho | 15 | | literary society, serving as
President of Pi Pi Rho in 1996, | 16 | | and was selected as member of Who's Who in American Colleges | 17 | | and Universities
in 1997; he attended the Southern Illinois | 18 | | University School of Law from 1977 to 1980; he participated in | 19 | | National Moot Court
Program, setting the best win/loss for the | 20 | | school since its inception; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Judge Bordner joined the law firm of Love and | 22 | | Collins in 1980; in 1981, the firm was known as Love, Collins |
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in 1982, the firm became Collins and Bordner; he | 2 | | engaged in the general practice of law with Ted Collins for
15 | 3 | | years;
and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Judge Bordner was appointed Associate Judge for | 5 | | the 9th Judicial Circuit for the State of Illinois on March 25,
| 6 | | 1995; he was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to Chair | 7 | | the Judicial Conference Committee on Discovery
Practice and | 8 | | Procedures from 2000 to 2001; his committee wrote most of the | 9 | | standard interrogatories
currently in use in Illinois during | 10 | | that time; he served as administrative or presiding judge from | 11 | | 1999 to 2007; in 2010, he was elected Full Circuit Judge of the | 12 | | 9th Judicial Circuit, which is comprised of Fulton, McDonough,
| 13 | | Knox, Warren, Henderson, and Hancock counties; he served as | 14 | | administrative judge of Fulton County from
2012 to the present; | 15 | | and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Judge Bordner's hobbies include traveling in the | 17 | | United States and abroad, collecting art and wine, and | 18 | | following the Chicago Cubs; therefore, be it
| 19 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 20 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 21 | | congratulate Steven R. Bordner on his retirement as a judge for | 22 | | the 9th Judicial Circuit and we wish him the best in all his | 23 | | future endeavors; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Judge Bordner as an expression of our esteem and | 3 | | respect.
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