The Chicago
Bar Association
www.chicagobar.orgOFFICERS
President
Patricia Brown Holmes
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP
First Vice President
Daniel M. Kotin
Tomasik Kotin Kasserman, LLC
Second Vice President
Hon. Thomas R. Mulroy
Circuit Court of Cook County
Secretary
Jesse H. Ruiz
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Treasurer
Steven M. Elrod
Holland & Knight LLP
Executive Director
Terrence M. Murphy
Assistant Executive Director
Elizabeth A. McMeen
BOARD OF
MANAGERS
Karina Ayala-Bermejo
Ashly I. Boesche
Thomas F. Boleky
Chasity A. Boyce
Hon. Maureen E. Connors
Daniel A. Cotter
Mary K. Curry
James R. FortCamp
Matthew T. Jenkins
Natacha D. McClain
Eileen M. O’Connor
Matthew A. Passen
Meredith E. Ritchie
David J. Scriven-Young
Hon. Amy J. St. Eve
John T. Theis
Nigel F. Telman
Frank G. Tuzzolino
Allison L. Wood
On the dais at the 2016 Earl Burrus DickersonAwards. L to R –DickersonAwardChair Judge E. Kenneth
Wright Jr.; honoree Chief Judge LeRoy Martin of the Criminal Court; honoree Judge Marilyn Johnson
(ret.), Circuit Court of Cook County, Child Protection Section of Juvenile Court; Chief Judge Timothy
Evans, Circuit Court of CookCounty; JusticeMary Jane Theis, Illinois SupremeCourt; andYoungLawyers
Section Chair Matthew Passen.
At the John Paul Stevens Award luncheon at the Standard Club, October 13, 2015, are (left to right):
Robert Clifford, past President of the CBA; Timothy Eaton, past president of the CBA; and JudgeWilliam
Bauer of the U.S. Court of Appeals.
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APRIL/MAY 2016
–My husband Michael and my entire
family for being super loving and sup-
portive while I was gone all year;
–My judicial buddies from both state and
federal court, including Chief Judge
Castillo, Chief Judge Evans, Judges
Williams, Bauer, Chin, Wood, St. Eve,
Coleman, Kendall, Banks, Martin, Burns,
Lee, Pallmeyer, Hall, Cunningham, Patti,
Ross, Wright, Mulroy, Ball Reed and
others who were supportive in a variety
of ways–(special shout for Judge Castillo
for the Women Lawyers in the Court-
room idea and Judge St Eve for chairing
a great committee (you all know who you
are—thank you as well!);
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