Ronald C. Smith
Professor of Law
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
312-987-1444
[email protected]
Curriculum Vitae
Attorney at law.
Admitted: Illinois (1965);
U.S. District Court (N.D., Illinois) (1967), Member of the Federal Trial Bar;
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1967);
The United States Supreme Court (1992).
HIGHLIGHTS
Member of the faculty, The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL, 1968 – present.
Chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association (2001 -2002).
Director of the award-winning National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition (1991 –
2012) sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association and The
John Marshall Law School.
Member of the Committee of Experts, Draft Statute International Criminal Tribunal,
Association Internationale De Droit Penal, Siracusa, Italy (June 1990).
Assistant State’s Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, periodically from 1975 to 1980.
Member of the Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention; elected from the 13th State Senate
District, and served from December 1969 to September 1970.
Attorney, Santa Fe Railway law department, 1966 – 1968.
Law Clerk to Mr. Justice John V. McCormick, Illinois Appellate Court, 1965-1966.
J.D., Loyola University, Chicago, 1965. Law Review. Recipient of Law Alumni
Scholarship, 1962-1965.
Member of the faculty, Speech Department, Loyola University, Chicago, 1955 – 1956.
Adjunct faculty (Speech), St. Joseph’s College, Indiana, 1955 - 1956.
B.S. (Humanities), Loyola University, Chicago, 1955 (majors in English Literature and Speech,
minors in History and Philosophy).
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Military Service
United States Navy, Naval Aviator. Active duty 1956–1962; assigned to fleet squadron HS-11.
1958 – 1962; Active Reserves 1962-1977. Retired as Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate
General, assigned as military judge in 1975.
POST J.D. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
1965 – 1966: Law Clerk to Mr. Justice John V. McCormick, Illinois Appellate Court. Analyzed
and summarized appellate briefs, researched legal authority, and prepared preliminary drafts for
c. 30 written opinions authored by Justice McCormick.
1966 – 1968: Attorney, Law Department, Santa Fe Railroad. Appeared before the Interstate
Commerce Commission in hearings relating to the restructuring of long-haul railroads
between Chicago and the West Coast; prepared testimony for expert witnesses regarding the
efficiencies of various long-haul rail routes between Chicago and southwestern destinations;
appeared in Ex Parte 242 and Ex Parte 251, dealing with costs, rentals, and supplies of freight
cars on a national scale. Appeared in various rate or line acquisition applications in Illinois,
Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, and Texas.
1968 to present: Member of the full-time faculty, The John Marshall Law School, Chicago,
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IL. Professor of Law. 1966 – 1968: Adjunct faculty, Legal Writing and Appellate
Advocacy.
1973: When I.I.T. -Chicago-Kent College of Law was still the sponsor of the Institute for
Criminal Justice, lectured on the Executive Article and the Elections Article of the 1970
Illinois Constitution.
1978: Advisory board member of the Institute of Criminal Justice (introduced to The John
Marshall Law School by Dean Herzog and at the request of Circuit Court Judge Minor Wilson
and U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Aspen). Served alongside faculty members, senior law
enforcement personnel, and Judges Wilson and Aspen. Institute provided four or five training
seminars each year for peace officers and security personnel.
Institute Seminar Lectures and Outlines of Materials:
• “Search Without Consent,” June 2, 1979.
• “Search Without Consent,” June 7, 1980.
• “The Law of Confessions,” April 25, 1981.
• “Burglary and Related Offenses,” September 19, 1981.
• “Murder and Related Offenses,” February 6, 1982.
• “The Law of Warrantless Arrests,” June 12, 1982.
• “The Law of Confessions,” December 3, 1983.
• “The Law of Burglary & Related Offenses,” April 14, 1984.
• “The Justifiable Use of Force,” June, 1985.
• “The Law of Interrogation,” June 14, 1986.
• “Avoiding Liability: Use of Force,” September 20, 1986.
• “Obscenity and Related Offenses; New Trends,” April 18, 1987.
• “Laws Governing Burglary and Related Offenses,” December 5, 1987.
• “The Law of Warrantless Arrests,” February 13, 1988.
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1974: Prepared a casebook of materials in Criminal Procedure and updated the casebook
supplements each year from 1976 to 1981.
1980 – 1983; 1988 – 1990: Faculty advisor to student mock trial teams.
Lectures
• “What to Look for in a Trial” - Delivered to journalists and other media personnel, at The
John Marshall Law School’s Law for Media Conferences. March 21, 1981 and April 17, 1982.
• “How a Trial Lawyer Behaves in Court” - Two lectures presented to high school counselors
in the Chicago Coalition for Law Related Education, Spring, 1983.
• “The Path to Becoming a Lawyer” - Presented to high school students through the
Cook County State’s Attorney’s Law Scout program, October 9, 1985.
• “The Misdemeanor Courts of Cook County -Keeping ‘The King’s Peace’,” - Presented to
theXavier College Criminal Law Society, October 12, 1985.
• “Limitation of Governmental Power Contained in the Federal and Illinois
Constitutions (comments on Poindexter and North)” - Guest of Honor and featured
speaker among officers, staff, and guests of the U.S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes,
Illinois, on the occasion of my being Guest of Honor and featured speaker, August 21, 1987.
1969-1970; 1988: Spoke at scores of community and political meetings on issues relating to the
Illinois Constitution.
June 2008: Spoke before assembled community groups (e.g., the Chicago-Edgewater
Community Council) on whether to vote to call for a Constitutional Convention.
POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE
1966 - 1969: Active Member, Chicago Bar Association Defense of Prisoners Committee.
1969 - 1970: Served as an elected delegate to the Illinois Constitutional Convention ii; served on
the Executive Article Committee and the Official Explanation Committee.
1970 - 1980: Member and occasional board member, Independent Voters of Illinois.
1971 - 1972: Candidate for Illinois State Senate. Gerrymandered into a substantially new area
in the 1971 legislative redistricting plan. Ran as an anti-“machine” candidate in the Democratic
Party primary to challenge the incumbent State Senator, Robert Cherry. Participated in two test
case lawsuits (see Netsch. et al. v. Lewis, 344 F.Supp. 1280 (1972), which struck down
legislation requiring incumbents’ names to be placed first on the ballot; and Smith v. Cherry, et
al.,489 F.2d 1098 (1974), which recognized the federal courts’ powers to set aside elections of
“sham” candidates). iii
1972: Member of a team of attorneys to challenge, on the basis of widespread violations of
Democratic party rules, the seating of the so-called “Daley delegates” at the 1972 National
Democratic Convention.
1972 - 1973: Member, Illinois Governor-elect Daniel Walker’s Transition Task force.
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1973 - 1975: Member, State of Illinois Ethics Board. iv
Summers 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980: Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney. Estimated 300
bench trials, 10 jury trials, many motions to suppress, bond hearings, etc. Assistant State’s
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Attorney of Cook County. [After 1980, handled several criminal defense cases, including jury
cases, often on a pro bono basis].
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1977 - 1978: Administrative Law Judge (Hearing Officer), Illinois Civil Service Commission.
Presided at over 30 formal adversary trials to determine the legitimacy of suspension from jobs,
discharges, and alleged reorganizations resulting in lay-offs. Prepared written reports of the
proceedings and submitted recommendations to the Illinois Civil Service Commission upon the
completion of taking testimony and evidence, and analyzed the parties’ arguments.
1977 - 1978: Member of a team of professors at John Marshall, with some student support, that
undertook an analysis of Senate Bill 1 (later Senate Bill 1437), the proposed “Federal Criminal
Code Reform Act of 1978. Prepared the analysis of proposed sections 401-404 (complicity) and
sections l001-lOO3 (inchoate offenses). In 1978 the John Marshall Law School’s study group,
led by Professor Melvin Lewis, submitted “A Functional Analysis of S.1437,” to the
Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Committee of the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives.
1983-1984: Organized and directed The John Marshall Law School’s inaugural nineday Accelerated Trial Advocacy program.vii
1986: Special assistant to Hon. Carl Henninger, Chief Judge of DuPage County, IL.
September 1987: Participated in the reconvening of Members of the Sixth Illinois
Constitutional Convention, to advise the Illinois Legislature’s special committee on evaluating
the effectiveness of judicial interpretation and legislative implementation of the provisions of
the 1970 Illinois Constitution.
1988: Organized and hosted ATLA Regional Law Student Trial Advocacy Competition at
The John Marshall Law School.
1989: Organized and hosted ATLA National Championship Law Student Trial Advocacy
Competition at The John Marshall Law School.
June 1990: Member, Committee of Experts, Draft Statute International Criminal Tribunal,
Association Internationale De Droit Penal, Siracusa, Italy.
1990: Created the National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition, sponsored by the
Criminal Justice Section of the ABA and The John Marshall Law School.
1993: Attended the International Bar Association’s conference on terrorism, money
laundering, kidnapping and extortion, and presented the seal of The John Marshall Law
School to Madrid Bar Association Dean, Don Luis Marti Mingarro.
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1991-2012: Directed and organized all aspects of the National Criminal Justice Trial
Advocacy Competition. Wrote or edited the trial materials, communicated with all ABAapproved law schools regarding annual invitees, awards, hotel arrangements, judges,
courtrooms, program books, bailiffs, and logistics. viii
Authored (or co-authored) the following casefiles for the Competition:
• (1991) People v. Lonnie Hawkins (attempted murder) *
• (1992) People v. Amil Cantu (obstruction of justice) **
• (1993) People v. Pat Sullivan (bribery, perjury)
• (1994) People v. Janek (business fraud)
• (1995) People v. Bansley (burglary)
• (1996) People v. Lee (extortion)
• (1997) People v. Sills (possession of cocaine)
• (1998) People v. Eugene Epps (murder)
• (2000) People v. Rigney (obstruction of justice)**
• (2002) People v. Terri Gaffner (identity theft) with Rachelle Niedzwiecki
• (2003) People v. Zeller (attempt murder, aggravated battery)
• (2006) People v. River Moon (arson, terrorism) with Rachelle Niedzwiecki
• (2008) U.S. v. Ronnie Jackson (trafficking in counterfeit merchandise)
• (2009) People v. Dunkirk (driving under the influence)
• (2010) People v. Connie Cutter (residential burglary, etc.)
• (2011) People v. Russ Cascade (arson)
• (2012) People v. Pat Baer (murder)
[*Used again in University of Puerto Rico’s 2007 trial advocacy competition]
[** These materials were also used for the comparing American and Irish advocacy styles, Dublin,
Ireland, in the courtroom of the Supreme Court of Ireland, with members of the ABA’s International
Law Section, the ABA’s Criminal Justice Section, and members of the Irish bar.]
Edited casefiles:
• (1999) People v. Loren Brown (Controlled substances, necessity). Author: Charles Aron.
• (2001) People v. Dale Kahn (felony murder, robbery). Author: Charles Aron.
• (2004) U.S. v. Jan Bridges (drug conspiracy). Author: Charles Aron.
• (2005) People v. Jamie Bianco (controlled substances). Author: Charles Aron.
• (2007) People v. Pat Hughes (murder) with Brendan Schiller.
Prepared for the Georgetown University Law Center’s National White Collar Crime
Competition:
• (2003) U. S. v. Gerald Ashfault (bribery in violation of 8 USC Sec. 201(b)(2)(a)). –
Edited, with Charles Aron.
• (2004) United States v. Dana Donovan, (kickbacks, and making false statements in violation
of 41 USC Sec. 53(2) and 18 USC 1001(a)). Edited, with Charles Aron.
April 1994: Organized program featuring Albert Krieger, prominent civil liberties and
criminal defense attorney, who addressed the John Marshall student body on "Rights and
Responsibilities of Lawyers." The videotape of his presentation was distributed to judges, law
professors, and attorneys involved in the criminal justice system.
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American Bar Association - Member since 1980.
Major Activities:
• ABA Criminal Justice Section: 1988 – present.
• 1994 – 1996: Council parliamentarian.
• 1996 – 1998: Vice-Chair of Publications.
• 1998 – 2000: Vice-Chair, Continuing Legal Education for Millennium CLE programs in
London, UK (see note*).
• 1999 – 2000: Vice-Chair for Long-Range Planning.
• 2000 – 2001: Chair-elect.
• 2001 – 2002: Chair of the Section.
*For the London 2000 Millennium ABA Meeting, organized or participated in several
programs for the Criminal Justice Section:
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“The Future of the Jury,” (with the ABA Litigation Section) – moderated a panel
discussion of modern jury problems and practices, which included panelists Professor
Charles Ogletree of Harvard, Albert Krieger (Miami, FL), Mark Whitehead (Chicago,
IL), and members of the bench (London, England). This program was repeated at the
ABA Annual Meeting in 2001 and featured.
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Assisted in the organization of “The Treason Trial of George Washington” (with the
Litigation Section); helped organize, and moderated, “Crimes Against the Elderly,”
which included panelists Eamonn Barnes (DPP of Ireland), Hon. Jane Brady (Attorney
General of Delaware), and Rita Fry (Public Defender of Cook County, IL), (with the
Senior Lawyers Division of the ABA).
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Organized, prepared materials, and performed as an advocate in a mock trial
demonstration comparing American and Irish trial advocacy methods (with the
Criminal Justice and International Law Sections of the ABA), held in the Supreme
Court of Ireland courtroom, Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland. American participants: Jay
Vogelson, Esq., Dallas, TX; Terry MacCarthy, Esq., William Hannay, Esq., and I,
from Chicago, Hon. Richard Mills (U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois);
retired Irish Supreme Court Justice Donald Barrington, and four Irish barristers.
2001: Reprised and acted as moderator: of “The Future of the Jury” for the 2001 ABA
Annual Meeting in Chicago, with C. Marc Whitehead, Albert Krieger, Professor Charles
Ogletree, Hon. Warren Wolfson.
May 2002: (postponed from October 2001 due to 9/11): Organized the two-day National
Cybercrime Conference, co-sponsored by The John Marshall Law School and the Criminal
Justice Section of the American Bar Association.
2004: Organized and moderated a panel discussion on Escobedo v. Illinois (U. S. S. ct., 1964),
featuring Barry Krol, Esq., the attorney who argued Escobedo’s case in the Illinois and U.S.
Supreme Courts; Hon. Warren Wolfson, who represented Escobedo on the motion to suppress
confession at the trial level; Hon. Ben Mackoff, who was in the Cook County State’s
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Attorney’s office in 1964; and Professor Timothy O’Neil.
1995 and 2007: Honored by the Criminal Justice Section of the ABA, with The John
Marshall Law School, for the many contributions we have made to the ABA and the Criminal
Justice Section.
October 6, 2011, at The John Marshall Law School: Organized and presented CLE
program, “Bomb on Board,” addressing legal implications of searches in sensitive locations
with the focus on security checks of aircraft passengers boarding for travel. (1.5 CLE hours).
April 29, 2014 at The John Marshall Law School: Organized and made presentation CLE
program, “Lawyers Can Prevent Aircraft Accidents,” a dialogue on aviation safety with
panelists Captain Soma Priddle, J.D.,ATP and Captain Jeff Kohler, ATP. (2.0 CLE hours).
In preparation for Fall 2014: CLE program, “The Law of Regulation Compliance
under FCPA-Sarbanes Oxley.”(Proposed 1.5 CLE hours).
INTERNATION BAR ASSOCIATION
1991-2004: Member, International Bar Association (IBA).
1991: Participant, IBA Criminal Law Section Meeting, Munich.
1992: Participant, IBA Criminal Law Section Meeting, Madrid.
1993: Panel Member, Plea Bargaining in the U.S. (and the European Reaction), Prosecution
Subcommittee of the Criminal Law Section of the IBA Meeting in New Orleans. [This
material was originally prepared for the 1992 IBA meeting in Madrid; however, this material was
postponed due to Director Eamonn Barnes Madrid trip cancellation.]
June 1995: Session Chair, “Children and Crime,” IBA Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1996: Moderator: Program on Alleged International Criminal, IBA Meeting, Dublin, Ireland.
1990, 1995, 2001, and 2005: Organized receptions for the Criminal Justice Section of the
American Bar Association, sponsored by and hosted by The John Marshall Law School (with
various other sponsors) for the American Bar Association Annual Meetings in Chicago.
Irish Law and Studies
April 1989: Panelist and commentator in American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section’s
Program comparing styles of advocacy of the Irish barristers to the American trial lawyers in
criminal cases. Held at Blackhall, Dublin, Ireland.
April 1989: Spoke to the student group at Trinity College on the practice in the United States
of lobbying a legislative body and its members in order to advance legislation.
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August 1990: Introduced the Hon. Liam Hamilton, President of the High Court (and later
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) of Ireland, who addressed those attending John Marshall
Law School’s reception for members of the ABA’s Criminal Justice Section during the 1990
Annual Meeting of the ABA in Chicago.
March 1991: Arranged for and facilitated the visit of President Hamilton as the 1991 Herzog
Distinguished Jurist. Provided introductory remarks for President Hamilton’s lecture, “Irish
Law and the Millennium,” which covered the several eras of Irish law beginning with the
Brehan Laws, the law during the Dane’s conquest of portions of Ireland, and Irish law until
the English conquest. He died in 2000. See: http://www.rte.ie/news/2000/1130/hamilton.html
March 1992: Edited and arranged for the publication and distribution of President
Hamilton’s 1991 lecture, to attorneys throughout the United States. The Chicago law firm
of Pope and John, as a St. Patrick’s Day memento, sponsored this distribution and mailing.
The John Marshall Law School was prominently featured in the brochure.
September 1992: Arranged for and facilitated the visit of Irish High Court Judge (and later
Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland) Hon. Ronan Keane, Dublin, Ireland, who spoke
at John Marshall on the influence of American Supreme Court decisions on Irish law. Edited
and arranged for distribution of his speech. See: http://indigo.ie/~keanet/ronan_keane.htm
October 1993: Arranged for and facilitated the five-day visit of another Herzog Distinguished
Jurist, Eamonn Barnes, Director of Public Prosecutions of Ireland and then chair of the
International Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section. He met with JMLS students, alumni,
faculty, and friends. The Union League Club (Terence MacCarthy) and the Chicago Bar
Association (Hon. Suzanne Conlon) hosted welcoming events for him. Edited and distributed
copies of his speech.
See:
http://books.google.com/books?id=zx422jZOYfkC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=Eamonn+Bar
nes&source=web&ots=fYwBnVAnQ4&sig=T0zRGnQQ7dC85TPMqh68lpj10P0&hl=en&sa
=X&oi= book_result&resnum=4&ct=result .
1993 – 1996: Placed John Marshall students in the Office of The Director of Public
Prosecutions [“D.P.P”], Dublin, Ireland, for up to two weeks, in connection with their
preparing Independent Research papers on Irish law and practice. These students were
personally supervised by the D.P.P. of Ireland, Eamonn Barnes.
October 1994: Arranged for and facilitated visit by Irish Barrister Joseph Barnes, who
lectured on the practice of trial law in Ireland. He met with students, faculty members, and
members of the Chicago legal community. He had, over the years, acted as an advisor and
facilitator for John Marshall students who have visited Ireland in connection with their
preparing independent research papers on Irish law.
Spring 1996: Judged and evaluated a student mock trial between Trinity College law
students and John Marshall Law students, Trinity College of Law, Dublin, Ireland.
1996 – present: Member, Mayor’s International Sister Cities Program, Chicago-
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Galway Committee.
PRO BONO CASES
People v. Truong Cuong (1981), theft, at the request of church group in Oak Park.
Negotiated plea.
People v. Frank James (1982), drug cases, at the request of Judge McElligott. Negotiated
plea.
People v. Michael Green (1982), robbery, at the request of Judge Sklodowski. Negotiated
plea.
People v. Rosario (1983), battery Jury trial at the request of Judge J.J. McDonnell. Finding
of not guilty.
People v. Herrera (1985), battery case, at the request of the Edgewater community Council.
Negotiated plea.
Claims of Peter Duong (1988), Personal injury claim against uninsured, judgment-proof
tortfeasor; at the request of Alderman Kathy Osterman’s office (48th ward, Chicago).
People v. Mikel (1988), battery, at the request of Alderman Osterman’s office.
Richmond v. DeRobertis (1983-84), suit alleging 4 1983 and 1985 violations brought by inmate
at Statesville against the Director of Illinois Department of Corrections. Successfully resisted
respondent’s motion for summary judgment, conducted extensive pretrial discovery, and
eventually withdrew after client threatened violence. Assigned per request and appointment of
Judge Milton Shadur, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois.
Chicago Park District v. Operation Lakewatch (1983). Represented a citizen’s group
which had been temporarily restrained by court order from publishing data on pollution in
Chicago’s boat harbors. After four months of litigation, the T.R.O. was withdrawn and the
park District’s petition for temporary and permanent injunction was dismissed.
Pro bono appeals
Indigent appeal: People v. Curtis Hahn, 90 ILL. App. 2d 367 (1967).
Indigent appeal: U. S. v. Musa Khabbas, 965 F. Supp. 2d 484 (1992).
Other
1993 – 1996: Member, Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee, Subcommittee on Criminal
Rules.
1993 – 1996: Member, Cook County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee.
1995: Moderator, ABA Criminal Justice Section, Panel Survey of Supreme Court Decisions
1994 – 1995.
1996 – 2000: Member, International Prosecutors’ Association.
1990 – 1999: Member, International Bar Association.
October 1996: Speaker and panelist: “Granting Witnesses Immunity in Criminal Cases,”
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International Bar Association, Criminal Law Section panel, Berlin, Germany.
2004: Taiwan. Taught a basic course in American criminal law, focusing on computer crime
and white collar crime, to law students at Chiao Tung University Institute of Technology Law,
Taipei.
Occasionally interviewed on television and radio, or by newsprint reporters, regarding
current criminal justice events.
Photo featured on the cover of Crain’s Chicago Business, March 25, 2002, for an
interview covering U.S. v. Arthur Anderson.
Honors
1986 Certificate of Appreciation, Cook County State’s Attorney for contribution to the
State’s Attorney’s Explorer (Law) Scouts Program.
Received awards from The John Marshall Law School Alumni Association, June 1994, June
2001, June 2002, and June 2008.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
1966-1968: Volunteer in a legal clinic sponsored by Precious Blood Church on the near
west side of Chicago. Family, social security, and debtor-creditor problems.
1970-1978: Board member, Committee on Illinois Government, a democratic study group
which generally fostered progressive democratic ideas and candidates.
1971-1977: Vice chairman and board member of Project L.E.A.P. (Legal Election in All
Precincts), a watchdog group which provided poll watchers for local elections, challenged
ostensibly illegal election practices, and lobbied for better election laws.
1971-1976: Advisor and parliamentarian for many neighborhood groups, e.g., O.N.E.
(Organization of the North East) and L.S.N.A. (the Logan Square Neighborhood
Association).
1971-1976: Attorney for Greyston Academy, a 501(c)(3) grammar school. Prepared articles of
incorporation, not-for-profit application to state and federal governments, teacher contracts,
student contract, leases for premises at Xavier College, and all other legal matters.
1963-1969: Director and teacher, Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, high school students,
Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Chicago.
Fall 2013: Fenwick High School, Oak Park, IL. Advisor and coach to high school students
preparing for high school trial advocacy competitions.
PRE-J.D. WORK EXPERIENCES
1951 – 1955: Earned college tuition working in factories and at the Chicago Post Office,
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selling merchandise at Montgomery Ward & Co., ushering and later working as an assistant
producer at WGN-TV.
1955-1956: Adjunct faculty, Loyola University, teaching courses in Speech and in
Voice and Diction. Adjunct faculty, teaching Speech, St. Joseph’s College, Indiana.
1955-1956: Assistant producer on various live shows, WGN-TV, Chicago. Part-time
projects at two advertising agencies, Young & Rubicam and J. Walter Thompson.
1963 – 1966 (summers): Taught at Loyola University’s summer high school debate clinic.
1965: J.D., Loyola University School of Law (Chicago), Alumni Scholarship, 1962 –
1965; Case Editor, IL, B. Journal “Recent Decisions,”1964-1965; Note, Comparing People
v. Escobedo, 28 Il.2d 41, 190 NE2d 825 (1963) and People v. Donovan, 13 NY2d 915, 135
NE2d 628 (1962), 52 IL. B. J 602 (1964), cited in appellant’s brief to the United States
Supreme Court.
MILITARY
Active duty, United States Navy, June 1956 – September 1962; Commissioned, O c t o b e r
1956; Naval aviation training, 1956 – 1958; qualified in single engine and multi-engine
aircraft, with all- weather instrument rating in single- and multi-engine aircraft, allweather and night instrument rated in helicopters. Assigned to Anti- submarine
Squadron HS-11, 1958 – 1962 (primarily at sea aboard U.S. Wasp, and occasionally at
home port at Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Rhode Island); service in North Atlantic,
Mediterranean Sea, Guantanamo Bay, North Sea, and Baltic Sea), designated Combat Area
Commander with all-weather instrument rating; atomic weapons qualified, 1960; various
administrative positions, including squadron training officer and squadron personnel officer;
two Armed Forces Expeditionary Medals.
Other activities while assigned to HS-11: taught college English 101 through United States
Armed Forces Institute (U. of Maryland). Administered GED program resulting in 97.5% of
enlisted men in squadron having high school diplomas (up from c. 50%). Military police
(Shore Patrol) duty in Cannes, Genoa, Barcelona, Reykjavík, Oslo, Rotterdam, Kiel, and
Portsmouth and Plymouth, UK.
Reserve duty: HS-721, Glenview Naval Air Station, 1962 – 1967. Having accumulated 1,750
hours of flight time, transferred to Judge Advocate General’s office in 1968, counseled
prisoners at Great Lakes Training Center brig, as well as doing legal research and handling
claims. 1975, assigned as Navy Judge for Courts Martials. Retired as a Lieutenant
Commander, 1977.
EDUCATION
Class of 1951, Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois.
1955: B.S. (Humanities), Loyola University, Chicago. English and Speech
majors, History and Philosophy minors.
Various undergraduate awards, honors, and activities, including Blue Key National Honor
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Society; President, Loyola Debate Society, 1954-1955; winner, Loyola University John
Naghten Debate Key, 1953; winner, Loyola University (2d place nationally) National Jesuit
Colleges English Essay Key, 1954. Coached debate at various Chicago-area high schools,
1954 – 1956.
1955 – 1956: Graduate work, English Literature, Loyola University, Chicago.
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ENDNOTES
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Originally hired as Administrative Assistant to Dean Noble W. Lee. Almost immediately
assigned to teach courses in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law II, and Criminal Law.
Delegate, Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention; elected as a political independent from
the 13th Illinois State Senate District. Backed by the major Chicago newspapers, the Elmer
Gertz campaign, and 200 volunteers to oppose the “Daley machine.” Spoke at meetings,
coffee parties, and political forums; raised some $13,000 in contributions; supervised a
staff; sought endorsements; campaigned on street corner, bus stops, and supermarkets;
participated in litigation (see Weisber et al. v. Powell, 417 F2d 388 (1969), successfully
challenged the Illinois Secretary of State’s practice of assigning political friends favorable
ballot positions).
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Selected successor nominee (After Cherry won the Democratic Party primary with 52% of
the vote, he resigned as the nominee and - along with other party committeemen - selected as
successor- nominee an incumbent state senator who had lost his neighboring district in the 1971
redistricting. Eventually, at a trial on the merits, the original federal district court judge assigned
to the case refused to find there was a Section 1985 conspiracy.)
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Primary appointed member by the Governor to the newly created Illinois Board of Ethics
in1974. Dr. Jack Isakoff of S.I.U. was the first chair of the Board, and under his leadership the
members of the Board prepared rules governing compliance, scope, and exemptions from the
Governor’s Executive Order which required several thousand employees in the executive
branch of Illinois government to file ethics statements and statements of financial interest.
Later, under Chairman James Otis, the Board held extensive hearings on these rules and on
applications for exemptions from compliance.
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1975: Worked in a neighborhood misdemeanor court and in the county’s “drug court” and
“gun court.” Summers of 1976, 1979, and 1980, handled the county jury misdemeanor call;
experienced twelve juries, about 250 bench trials, and about 50 motions to suppress. Handled
hundreds of other cases through plea-bargaining or diversion out of the criminal justice
system. 1975: Recommended other John Marshall faculty members take summer positions
with the Cook County State’s Attorney. Professors Closen and Polelle were Assistant State’s
Attorneys the following summer. Coached national mock trial advocacy teams from 1981 to
1984. This involved the selection of two teams of student competitors and drilling them on the
presentation of a nationally assigned mock trial problem. The students thereafter competed in
regional rounds. In 1981 our teams reached the regional quarter finals; in 1982, the semifinals; in 1983, one team made the regional finals; and in 1984 both JMLS teams were in the
regional finals, and one of these teams went to the National competition in Texas.
1977: Interim Hearing Officer. Invited by the Chair of the Illinois Civil Service Commission,
Ann Lousin during her reorganization of the Commission under Governor James Thompson in
1977. Retained on a “half- time” basis, replaced by two full-time hearing officers at the end of
serving 10 months.
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Nine-day Accelerated Trial Advocacy program featured adjunct professors, judges, and
active trial attorneys, including Chicago-area luminaries; Hon. Paul Plunkett, Hon. Eugene
Pincham, Hon. Gino DiVito, Hon. William Quinlan, Hon. Michael Howlett, Jr., Thomas
Crisham, and Dan Webb. (Background: In1980, assigned to teach Trial Advocacy by Dean
Herzog. Attended the 20-day National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) course held at
Northwestern University, and the NITA Teacher Training course at Harvard University in 1982).
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National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition has received two awards recognizing
The John Marshall Law School’s contributions to legal education and in 1998 won the
prestigious “Best of the Sections” award from the ABA for “service to the legal community.”
The Competition was widely regarded as the best trial competition in the United States, and
was host to some 150 different law schools including teams from New Zealand, Ireland,
England, India, and the Philippines.
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