Full Text of SR2459 099th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Philip Guentert, who passed away on | 4 | | November 7, 2016, at the age of 58; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Philip Guentert grew up in Cleveland, Ohio; he | 6 | | earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University and attended | 7 | | the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University | 8 | | for a master's of public policy; he earned his Juris Doctor | 9 | | from Harvard Law School; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Philip Guentert joined the Department of Justice | 11 | | as an assistant United States attorney in Chicago in 1990; he | 12 | | was the first chief of the office's public corruption section, | 13 | | overseeing a number of investigations and prosecutions of | 14 | | public officials; he was also the office's ethics and | 15 | | professional responsibility adviser; he worked on the | 16 | | prosecutions of former Illinois governors, George Ryan and Rod | 17 | | Blagojevich; he also worked on the Archer Daniels Midland | 18 | | price-fixing case in the 1990s; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, In 2012, Philip Guentert and his wife, Monika | 20 | | Bickert, moved to San Jose, California, where he joined the | 21 | | United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of | 22 | | California; previously, they spent five years in Bangkok, where |
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| 1 | | they both worked for the United States Department of Justice; | 2 | | he also worked throughout Asia as the Department's intellectual | 3 | | property law enforcement coordinator; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, Philip Guentert took his family on trips that | 5 | | included trekking in Nepal, running a marathon in Berlin, and | 6 | | hiking in Taiwan; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Philip Guentert was preceded in death by his first | 8 | | wife, Jennifer; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Philip Guentert is survived by his wife, Monika; | 10 | | his daughters, Eleanor and Louise; and his brother, James; | 11 | | therefore, be it
| 12 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 13 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 14 | | Philip Guentert, and extend our sincere condolences to his | 15 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 16 | | further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to the family of Philip Guentert as an expression of | 19 | | our deepest sympathy.
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