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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3Representatives are pleased to congratulate Steve Ferguson on
4the occasion of his retirement as the State's Attorney for
5Coles County; and
 
6    WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson has been the State's Attorney for
7Coles County for 20 years; and
 
8    WHEREAS, During Steve Ferguson's time in office, felony
9filings have more than doubled, prison sentences have been
10imposed for the most deserving, and restitution collected for
11victims has exceeded more than $2 million; and
 
12    WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson's has been the State's Attorney for
13Coles County since 1992; he was in private practice from
141983-1992 with Heller, Holmes, and Associates; he taught
15business law at Lake Land College from 1989-1992 and was a law
16clerk for the Honorable Kenneth Meyers, U.S. Magistrate Judge,
17U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois,
181982-1983; and
 
19    WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson has numerous professional
20affiliations in the legal area, including completion of the
21Career Prosecutor Course-National College of District

 

 

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1Attorneys and Advanced Trial Advocacy program for career
2prosecutors-Illinois Appellate Prosecutors Office; he has
3served on the State Forensic Sciences Crime Laboratory Advisory
4Board, the Coles County Drug Court Steering Committee, the
5Children's Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois, the
6Illinois State Bar Association Assembly (ISBA), the ISBA
7Committee on Judicial Evaluation, the ISBA Juvenile Justice
8Section Council, and the ISBA Correctional Facilities and
9Services Committee; he is a member of the Illinois State's
10Attorneys Association, the National District Attorneys
11Association, the Association of Government Attorneys in
12Capital Litigation, the Prosecutors Bar Association, the
13Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Appellate Lawyers
14Association, the American Bar Association, and the State of
15Illinois Capital Litigation Trial Bar; and
 
16    WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson is a 1982 graduate of the
17University of Illinois College of Law; he graduated from
18Millikin University in Decatur in 1979, where he was Summa Cum
19Laude, a James Millikin Scholar, and a member of the Phi Kappa
20Phi academic honor society; he was a 1975 graduate of Mattoon
21High School, where he was valedictorian; and
 
22    WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson's retirement became official on
23November 30, 2012; and
 

 

 

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1    WHEREAS, Steve Ferguson is married to Melissa, and has two
2children, Tyler and Audra; therefore, be it
 
3    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
4NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
5we congratulate Steve Ferguson on his retirement as the State's
6Attorney for Coles County and we wish him all the best with his
7future endeavours; and be it further
 
8    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
9presented to Steve Ferguson as an expression of our esteem and
10respect.