Bill Text: IL HR0703 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Congratulates the administration and faculty of John Marshall Law School for its continuing commitment to train men and women to serve the people of the State of Illinois and recognizes the distinguished career of George E. Sangmeister and the exemplary service he gave to the legal profession and the State of Illinois.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2009-10-28 - Resolution Adopted [HR0703 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HR0703-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, John Marshall Law School was founded in 1899 on
the principle that, in a healthy democracy, the study of the
law should be available to all qualified students; and
WHEREAS, John Marshall, a non-profit law school, has
honored its mission of access and opportunity from its earliest
years, when the first graduating classes included women and
African Americans, to the present, with the most recent class
made up of 46% women and 29% minorities; and
WHEREAS, John Marshall consistently ranks among the best
law schools in the nation for legal writing and trial advocacy,
core skills for training the next generations of successful
lawyers; and
WHEREAS, In 1993, John Marshall opened its Fair Housing
Clinic to provide pro bono legal representation to those
impacted by housing discrimination; and
WHEREAS, In 2008, John Marshall opened its Veterans Legal
Support Center and Clinic to provide pro bono legal
representation to our returning service members as they fought
for their disability benefits; and

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WHEREAS, John Marshall has enjoyed a long tradition of
alumni serving in the public sector; nearly one-fifth of the
judiciary in the State of Illinois and numerous current General
Assembly members, including Senators Michael Noland and Ira
Silverstein and Representatives Franco Coladipietro, Michael
Connelly, Jim Durkin, Careen Gordon, Andre Thapedi, and Michael
Zalewski, are all former graduates of the school; and
WHEREAS, John Marshall is also proud of its alumni who have
served in the United States Congress, including John W. Cox,
Thomas E. Ewing, and George E. Sangmeister; and
WHEREAS, George Sangmeister was born in Frankfort, and
graduated from Joliet Junior College in 1951; he went on to
serve our country in the United States Army as an infantryman
during the Korean War; he then came back and earned his
bachelor's degree from Elmhurst College in 1957; and
WHEREAS, George Sangmeister earned his LL.B. and J.D.
degrees at the John Marshall Law School; he then practiced law
at the firm of McKeown, Fitzgerald, Zollner, Buck, Hutchison,
and Ruttle in Joliet and Frankfort, where he reached the status
of Partner; and
WHEREAS, George Sangmeister then represented the good
people of the Greater Will County Area as State's Attorney and

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Magistrate in the Circuit Court; he served in the General
Assembly as a State Representative from 1972 to 1976, and as a
State Senator from 1976 to 1987; he also served in Congress
from 1989 to 1995; and
WHEREAS, The law school, led by Dean John E. Corkery, Board
of Trustees President Leonard F. Amari, Foundation President
John R. Lee, and the Greater Will County Alumni, has
established the George E. Sangmeister Memorial Public Service
Scholarship to support those graduates, like George, who seek a
career in the public sector; and
WHEREAS, The George E. Sangmeister Memorial Public Service
Scholarship was presented at a gathering of Greater Will County
Alumni at a reception hosted at the law offices of Mahoney,
Silverman & Cross in Joliet, where George Sangmeister's widow,
Doris, and his son, Kurt, were present to announce the
scholarship; and
WHEREAS, At the same event, the law school celebrated the
distinguished careers of two members of the Class of 1951,
Judge John F. Cirricione and Judge William R. Penn, of the Will
County Circuit Court; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we

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congratulate the administration and faculty of John Marshall
Law School for its continuing commitment to train men and women
to serve the people of the State of Illinois; and be it further
RESOLVED, That we recognize the distinguished career of
George E. Sangmeister and the exemplary service he gave to the
legal profession and the State of Illinois; and be it further
RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
presented to Mrs. Doris H. Sangmeister and the John Marshall
Law School Board of Trustees as a symbol of our esteem and
respect.