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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives wish to recognize Carol Pope for her many | ||||||
| 4 | years of service; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Carol Pope earned her undergraduate degree from | ||||||
| 6 | the University of Illinois, where she was a member of Phi Beta | ||||||
| 7 | Kappa; she graduated magna cum laude and was named to the | ||||||
| 8 | Bronze Tablet, the university's highest recognition of | ||||||
| 9 | academic excellence, in 1975; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Carol Pope then attended the DePaul University | ||||||
| 11 | School of Law, where she was editor of the Law Review; she | ||||||
| 12 | obtained her J.D. degree, with honor, in 1979; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Carol Pope served as a law clerk to U.S. District | ||||||
| 14 | Judge J. Waldo Ackerman in the Central District of Illinois | ||||||
| 15 | from 1979 to 1983; she was an attorney with Mayer, Brown and | ||||||
| 16 | Platt in Chicago from 1983 to 1984; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Carol Pope was elected Menard County State's | ||||||
| 18 | Attorney in 1984 and 1988; she was appointed to serve as a | ||||||
| 19 | resident circuit judge of Menard County by the Supreme Court | ||||||
| 20 | of Illinois in 1991; she was elected to that position in 1992 | ||||||
| 21 | and retained in 1998, 2004, and 2010; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Carol Pope was assigned to the Appellate Court on | ||||||
| 2 | December 1, 2008 and was elected to a full term in 2012; she | ||||||
| 3 | served until her retirement on August 1, 2017; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, Carol Pope served as chair of the Supreme Court's | ||||||
| 5 | Committee on Strategic Planning for three years; she is a past | ||||||
| 6 | president of the Illinois Judges Association, served as a | ||||||
| 7 | member of the Executive Committee, and as chair of the | ||||||
| 8 | Committee on Education of the Illinois Judicial Conference; | ||||||
| 9 | she is a member of the Illinois Judges Association, the | ||||||
| 10 | Illinois State Bar Association, and the Sangamon and Menard | ||||||
| 11 | County Bar Associations; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Carol Pope became Legislative Inspector General | ||||||
| 13 | in March 2019, filling the position after it was empty for four | ||||||
| 14 | years; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, As Legislative Inspector General, Carol Pope | ||||||
| 16 | sought to reform the office and to implement a number of | ||||||
| 17 | changes, including increased transparencies, the ability to | ||||||
| 18 | issue subpoenas without the approval of the Legislative Ethics | ||||||
| 19 | Commission as well as reports about investigations, and the | ||||||
| 20 | creation of a ninth slot on the ethics commission for a | ||||||
| 21 | nonpartisan member who is not a state lawmaker; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Carol Pope left the position of Legislative | ||||||
| 2 | Inspector General in January 2022 due to concerns that reforms | ||||||
| 3 | were not being made; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, Carol Pope and her husband, Al, have two sons and | ||||||
| 5 | four grandsons; therefore, be it
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| 6 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 7 | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 8 | we recognize Carol Pope for her dedication and service; and be | ||||||
| 9 | it further
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| 10 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 11 | presented to Carol Pope as an expression of our esteem and | ||||||
| 12 | respect.
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