Sharon Finegan Patterson

Candidate for Cook County Circuit Court Judge

Democratic Primary - March 20, 2012

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Bar Affiliations

Chicago Bar Association

Women's Bar Association of Illinois

Appellate Lawyer's Association of Illinois

Illinois State Bar Association

American Bar Association

Civic and Public Service Activities

Attorney Voter Protection Program

Volunteered legal services to protect voters’ rights to vote without interference in the 2008 Presidential primary and general elections; traveled to Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Wisconsin

Lecturer on employment law at John Marshall Law School

Judge of student trial, moot court, and mediation competitions

Roundtable on Ethics, Civility, and Training for Lawyers, sponsored by the Illinois Supreme Court Special Committee on Professionalism

Six years on the Chicago Bar Association’s judicial evaluation committee, serving first as an investigator and then as a hearing officer

Lead attorney on team of lawyers selected by the President of the Chicago Bar Association, Kevin M. Forde, to represent the CBA in a lawsuit filed to declare a Cook County ordinance unconstitutional: The ordinance, which added a member to the Cook County Board of Review, was ruled unconstitutional. Sharon wrote the briefs on behalf of the CBA and successfully argued the case on appeal. The decision, CBA v. County of Cook, 224 Ill. App. 3d 355 (1st dist. 1984), aff'd, 102 Ill. 2d 438 (1984) is still the seminal Illinois authority on the subject of home rule power.

Pritzker Military Library events to honor those who serve in the military

Chicago Breast Cancer Walks in 2007 and 2009

Chicago AIDS Run/Walk in 2011

Former schoolteacher

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Sharon Finegan Patterson for Cook County Circuit Court Judge

Democratic Primary - March 20, 2012

 

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