Admitted
1967, Illinois, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois and U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1973, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Harvard University, J.D., cum laude, 1967
Law School Graduation Year
1967
College
Michigan State University, B.A., with high honors, 1963
Memberships
Chicago Council of Lawyers (Vice President, 1969-1970; Board of Governors, 1970-1972; 1981-1983).
Biographical
Recipient: Independent Voters Illinois—Independent Precinct Organization Legal Eagle Award, 1981; Clarence Darrow Memorial Award by Clarence Darrow Community Center, 1982. Editor: Criminal Practice in Cook County: Arrest, Bail, Preliminary Hearing, published by Chicago Council of Lawyers and Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, 1969; Litigation Manual for Lead Poisoning Cases, Prepared for a Lawyers Committee litigation training seminar, 1970. Author: The Misuse of Police Authority in Chicago: A Report and Recommendations, based on hearings before the Blue Ribbon Panel convened by Hon. Ralph H. Metcalfe, First Congressional District of Illinois, June/July, 1972, Chicago, 1973. Co-author: with Kathleen Crowley, Pleading, Discovery and Pretrial Procedure for Litigation Against Government Spying, A litigation manual prepared for the First National Conference on Government Spying, Chicago 1977, later published as an article in the University of Detroit Journal of Urban Law, Vol. 55, No. 4, Summer 1978. Lecturer: Northwestern University Law School, 1975-1980. Executive Director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1969-1972. Director, Police Project, ACLU, 1973-1974. General Counsel, Better Government Association, 1975-1980. Kermit Coleman Award, Afro-American Police League, 1983.