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On Oct. 26, 2023, President Shawn Kasserman was the guest speaker for the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Celebrate Pro Bono Reception honoring award recipient Stacey A. McCullough (Mirabella, Kincaid, Frederick & Mirabella, LLC) at Cantigny Golf Club, 27W270 Mack Road, Wheaton, IL.
On October 9, 2023, President-Elect Sonni Choi Williams spoke about the benefits of being an active and engaged ISBA member during the CLE program, Practicing Practical Probate, in Moline. Thank you, Rock Island County Bar Association!
Justice Lisa Holder White and the Supreme Court of Illinois have announced the appointment of Jeffrey Scot McKinley as a Resident Circuit Judge in the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, Mercer County.
On September 8, 2023, the Illinois State Bar Association presented the 5th Annual Abraham Lincoln's Legal Legacy: Lessons for Today's Lawyers - Science and Technology's Rapidly Evolving Impact on the Law.
The Honorable James E. "Jim" Garrison, age 82, of Plainfield, IL, formerly of Peoria and Joliet, IL, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 31, 2023, at his home. Jim was born on March 23, 1941, in Peoria, IL.
Terence "Terry" Madsen, 69, of Princeton, passed away on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, in Liberty Village Manor Court of Princeton surrounded by family following a battle with cancer.
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U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) announced that they will begin accepting applications from those interested in serving as a Federal District Court Judge in the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division. The Senators will be assisted by a screening committee whose task is to review and vet District Court candidates and advise the Senators regarding the candidates’ qualifications and fitness for the position.
Don’t miss ISBA’s 5th Annual Abraham Lincoln’s Legal Legacy seminar as we take an in-depth look at how inventions and advancements in science and technology create opportunities for lawyers to represent innovators, as well as those clients who are disrupted by the innovation (including the legal profession). The program takes place at the Rock Island Arsenal Museum located on the historic island that supported part of the railroad bridge subject to Lincoln’s famous case of Hurd et al v. Rock Island Bridge Company (often called the Effie Afton trial.)
Justice Elizabeth M. Rochford and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced the appointment of Associate Judge Kimberly DiGiovanni as an At-Large Circuit Judge in the 16th Circuit Kane County.