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Eleanor Roosevelt 2009 Scholarship Competition! Deadline: January 13, 2010. Please visit our Scholarships page for additional information.

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Hon. Lewis Nixon Installed as First Vice President

of Illinois Judges Association

The Honorable Lewis M. Nixon, a judge in the Circuit Court of Cook County, has been elected and installed as first vice president of the Illinois Judges Association (IJA).  He and the other 2009-10 officers were installed during the organization’s annual meeting held recently in Chicago.

The IJA is a 1,100-member organization of current and retired Illinois judges that provides educational opportunities and support to its members, and information about the judiciary to the public.

Judge Nixon served as an IJA board member and executive committee member during the 2006-07 fiscal year, was treasurer in 2007-08, and second vice president in 2008-09.  Officers typically move up the organizational ladder to become president.  It is anticipated that he will assume the IJA presidency in June 2010.

First appointed as a judge in November 2001 by the Illinois Supreme Court to fill a vacancy, he was subsequently elected to the position in November 2002.  He currently serves as supervising judge in the Mortgage Foreclosure/Mechanics’ Lien Section of Chancery.

Prior to sitting on the bench, Judge Nixon was the Assistant General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development in Chicago, administering the legal department for the six-state Midwest region.  He began his legal career in 1975 as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago.  An adjunct professor at Roosevelt University since 1989, he currently teaches at the university’s School of Paralegal Studies, and has taught trial advocacy at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Legal Education Institute in Washington, D.C.

Judge Nixon received his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in 1974 and his B.A. from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., in 1971. 

The Illinois Judges Association, formed in 1971, is headquartered at 321 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL  60604-3997 and can be reached at (312) 431-1283 or on-line at www.ija.org.

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Attention Illinois Paralegal Association Members!

Please visit the Illinois Paralegal Association's website for their latest manual "The Responsibilities of the Professional Paralegal." This document is available to current students and graduates that are members of the IPA only.

 

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