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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     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
 
6     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
 
13     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
 
17     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
 
25     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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1 understanding between legal education and the active of
2 practice law; and
 
3     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
 
6     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
 
21     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
 
25     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
26 presented to Nina S. Appel as a token of our respect and
27 esteem.