SR0572 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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SENATE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to learn of the death of Dennis J. Fox; and

WHEREAS, Dennis Fox was born on December 9, 1930 in Beaver Dam; he was the son of Henry J. and Mayme B. (Jezyk) Fox; and

WHEREAS, Dennis Fox graduated from Beaver Dam High School in 1947 and from Wayland Junior College in 1949; in June of 1951, he received his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin with senior high honors and election to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society; he was then awarded the Kemper K. Knapp law scholarship to the University of Wisconsin School of Law; and

WHEREAS, In August of 1952, Dennis Fox was drafted into the United States Army, where he was trained as a signal corps cryptographer and was assigned to Fontainebleau, France, the headquarters of NATO land forces for central Europe at the time; while there, he met a French cryptographer, Monique Cecile Prudhomme; on August 18, 1954, the couple was married in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in her home town of Dinan, in the province of Brittany; and

WHEREAS, After his discharge from the Army, Dennis Fox returned to the University of Wisconsin and earned his Juris doctor degree in June of 1957; after graduation, he worked as an attorney in IRS legal offices in Cincinnati, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Miami, Florida; in 1971, he was assigned to the IRS headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he became the assistant director, then the director of the IRS tax court litigation division; he later became the associate chief counsel for tax litigation; and

WHEREAS, In January of 1979, Dennis Fox was transferred to Chicago to serve as the regional counsel in charge of the IRS legal offices in the IRS Midwest division; in June of 1986, he retired from the IRS and joined the law firm of Lord, Bissell and Brook, where he remained in active practice of tax law until January of 2002; and

WHEREAS, Dennis Fox was a member of the bars of the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Federal Claims, the United States Tax Court, the Ohio Supreme Court, the Illinois Supreme Court, and 3 United States district courts; he also was a member of the American and Chicago Bar Associations; and

WHEREAS, Dennis Fox was the beloved husband of Monique Cecile Fox; the loving father of Daniel Fox and David (Nina) Fox; the dear brother of Joan (G. William) Hrobsky, the fond uncle of Julie Hrobsky and Steven Hrobsky; and the dear brother-in-law of Myriam Prudhomme, Bernadette Jounneau, Odile Nicaise, Francoise (Yves) Tabourier, and Chantal Prudhomme; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with his family and friends, the passing of Dennis J. Fox; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the family of Dennis Fox as an expression of our sympathy.