Full Text of HR0856 93rd General Assembly
HR0856 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives wish to congratulate Nina S. Appel, Dean of | 4 |
| Loyola University Chicago School of Law, on being the longest | 5 |
| serving woman law school dean in United States history; and
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| WHEREAS, Nina Appel is a 1959 Columbia Law School graduate | 7 |
| and was a Stone Scholar at Columbia; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, Nina Appel joined Loyola University Chicago's law | 9 |
| faculty in 1973, and served as associate dean from 1976 to | 10 |
| 1983; during that time, she taught in the areas of torts, | 11 |
| products liability, administrative law, and evidence; in 1983, | 12 |
| she was named Loyola's ninth Law School dean; and
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| WHEREAS, Among her accomplishments are founding the law | 14 |
| school's nationally ranked Institute for Health Law in 1984, | 15 |
| co-founding Loyola's ChildLaw Center in 1993, and establishing | 16 |
| the Elder Law Initiative in 2000; and
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| WHEREAS, In 2003, Dean Appel was presented the fourth-ever | 18 |
| Distinguished Columbian in Teaching Award, which was presented | 19 |
| in Washington, D.C., in recognition of her 30-year career at | 20 |
| Loyola; she was honored during the Annual Meeting of the | 21 |
| Association of American Law Schools (AALS) for her | 22 |
| contributions to legal education and scholarship and received | 23 |
| her award from fellow Columbia law alumna Supreme Court Justice | 24 |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and
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| WHEREAS, The American Bar Association named Dean Appel as | 26 |
| the 2003 recipient of the prestigious Robert J. Kutak Award, | 27 |
| which is presented annually by the ABA Section of Legal | 28 |
| Education and Admissions to the Bar to an individual who meets | 29 |
| the highest standards of professional responsibility and | 30 |
| demonstrates substantial achievement toward increased |
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| understanding between legal education and the active of | 2 |
| practice law; and
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| WHEREAS, In addition, she was named one of the 10 highly | 4 |
| influential women leaders, in the "20th Century Hall of Fame," | 5 |
| by Today's Chicago Woman; and
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| WHEREAS, During her career, she has served on a number of | 7 |
| professional committees, including: Executive Council of the | 8 |
| ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar; | 9 |
| Co-chair of the Cook County Public Guardian Oversight | 10 |
| Committee; member of the Chicago Bar Foundation Life Fellows' | 11 |
| representative, the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory | 12 |
| Committee, and the Illinois State Bar Association's Education | 13 |
| Committee; she served four consecutive terms on the Illinois | 14 |
| Compensation Review Board; served on the Special Commission for | 15 |
| the Administration of Justice in Cook County; served on the | 16 |
| Board of Directors of the Chicago Bar Foundation; served as | 17 |
| Board member and Director of the Illinois Institute of | 18 |
| Continuing Legal Education; and on the Special Committee to | 19 |
| Study Merit Selection of Judges for the Illinois State Bar | 20 |
| Association; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 22 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 23 |
| congratulate Dean Nina S. Appel on her retirement after many | 24 |
| years of dedicated service; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 26 |
| presented to Nina S. Appel as a token of our respect and | 27 |
| esteem.
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