HR1331 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of Representatives wish to congratulate Judge Richard P. Goldenhersh on the occasion of his retirement; and

WHEREAS, Judge Goldenhersh was elected to the Illinois Appellate Court, Fifth District, in 1988 and assumed office in December of that year; he has twice been Presiding Judge of the District; prior to appellate service, he was a circuit judge, St. Clair County, 20th Judicial Circuit, from 1982 to 1988, an Associate Judge in St. Clair County from 1975 to 1982, and in the private practice of law; he attended Washington University, receiving his A.B. degree in 1966, his J.D. in 1969, and his LL.Min in Judicial Process from the University of Virginia in 2001; and

WHEREAS, Judge Goldenhersh is a past president of the Illinois Judges Association and past co-chair of the Association's Judicial Selection and Retention Committee; he is also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, a past chair of the Civil Practice and Procedure Section Council, on which he currently serves, a past member and chair of the Board of Regents, and also a current member of the Bench and Bar Section Council; he previously has been a member of the Administrative Committee of the Appellate Court, chair of the Associate Judge's Coordinating Committee, member of the Supreme Court Committee on Complex Litigation, and member of the St. Clair County Constitution Bicentennial Committee; and

WHEREAS, Judge Goldenhersh has also been a speaker and instructor for the Illinois Judicial Conference, the Illinois Trial Lawyer's Association, the Association of Teacher Educators, and the National Association of Administrative Law Judges; he has spoken at teacher's conferences in Illinois and Missouri and taught at McKendree College, Webster University, and St. Louis University School of Law; and

WHEREAS, Judge Goldenhersh's community activities, past and present, include the boards of the Washington University Law School Alumni Association, the Jewish Federation of Southern Illinois, the St. Louis Committee on Foreign Relations, the Jewish Judge's Association of Illinois, the Advisory Committee for the paralegal program at Southwestern Illinois College, and the Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation; he has also spoken before numerous civic organizations and classes and participated in moot court competitions at Southern Illinois University Law School, Washington University Law School, and John Marshall Law School; and

WHEREAS, Judge Goldenhersh was married to the late Barbara Goldenhersh, Ph.D.; they have two children, Andrew, a professional magician in Los Angeles, and Stephanie, a clinical instructor and senior attorney at Harvard's Legal Aid Bureau, and two grandchildren, Jacy and Dylan; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate Judge Richard P. Goldenhersh on his retirement and wish him the best in all his future endeavors; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to Judge Goldenhersh as a symbol of our respect and esteem.