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A coalition of Illinois leaders, led by former Illinois Senate President Phil Rock and former Governor James R. Thompson, spearhead the Equal Justice Illinois Campaign and advocate for increased state funding of civil legal aid.

The Equal Justice Illinois Campaign Blue-Ribbon Committee 2009 is as follows:

The Honorable James R. Thompson
Co-Chair

The Honorable Philip J. Rock
Co-Chair

Anita M. Alvarez,
President, The Chicago Bar Association

Linda Renee Baker
Professor, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute Southern Illinois University

The Honorable Patricia R. Bellock
State Representative, 47th District

The Honorable Dorothy Brown
Clerk, Circuit Court of Cook County

James Buda
General Counsel, Caterpillar Inc.

Robert Clifford
Clifford Law Offices

Carolyn Clift
President, Illinois Equal Justice Foundation

Philip Harnett Corboy, Jr.
Corboy & Demetrio

The Honorable Jerry Costello
US Congressman, 12th District

Joseph Dailing
Executive Director, Illinois Coalition for Equal Justice

The Honorable Richard M. Daley
Mayor, Chicago, IL

The Honorable Ken Dunkin
State Representative, 5th District

The Honorable Timothy Evans
Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County

Dennis Gannon,
President, Chicago Federation of Labor

The Honorable Karen Hasara
Board Campaign Committee Chair, Illinois Equal Justice Foundation

The Honorable Janet Holmgren
Chief Judge, 17th Judicial Circuit

The Honorable Dallas Ingemunson
Former Illinois Republican Party Chairman & Kendall County State’s Attorney

James Jenkins
General Counsel, Deere & Company

The Honorable James Knecht
Judge, 4th District Appellate Court

The Honorable Patricia Reid Lindner
Former Illinois State Representative

The Honorable Lisa M. Madigan
Attorney General, State of Illinois

Claire A. Manning
Brown Hay & Stephens, LLP

John G. O'Brien
Illinois State Bar Association

Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki
Archdiocese of Chicago

Jerry Roper
President, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

Jesse H. Ruiz
Drinker, Biddle, Gardner & Carton, LLP

The Honorable Jeff Schoenberg
State Senator, 9th District

David Stricklin
Stricklin & Associates

The Honorable James Wexstten
Judge, 5th District Appellate Court

The Honorable Jesse White
Secretary of State of Illinois





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