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In 2010, Theis was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to fill a vacancy on its bench, taking office October 26, 2010. [7] She won a full term in a partisan election in 2012 . [ 8 ] In the general election, Chicago Tribune endorsed her for election to a full term, citing her "universally accepted expertise on judicial ethics, family law ...
Admitted to the Illinois Bar on April 14, 1942, Ryan practiced law in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois for one and a half years after being discharged from his military service. He then returned to LaSalle County , where he lived in Tonica and moved his legal practice to Peru.
Date of death Age at death (years) Cause Place of death Place of burial John Lewis Democratic Georgia (5th district)July 17, 2020 80 Pancreatic cancer [32]: Atlanta, Georgia
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Since it was established in 1789, 114 persons have served as a justice (associate justice or chief justice) on the Supreme Court; of these, 104 have died. The first death of a justice was that of James Wilson on August 21, 1798, and the most recent was that of Sandra Day O'Connor on December 1, 2023.
This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.
Illinois used death by hanging as a form of execution until 1928. The last person executed by this method was the public execution of Charles Birger the same year. After being struck down by Furman v. Georgia in 1972, the death penalty was reinstated in Illinois on July 1, 1974, but voided by the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1975. Illinois ...
Joy Virginia Cunningham (born 1951) [1] is an American lawyer from Illinois who serves as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. She previously served as a justice of the Illinois First District Appellate Court from 2016 until 2022. Before becoming a lawyer, she worked as a nurse, and later worked as counsel for several university hospital ...