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Warren Wolfson
Warren D. Wolfson was a judge of the Illinois First District Appellate Court, 1st Division. He retired from this position in 2009.[1]
Education
Judge Wolfson was born in Chicago on Feb. 14, 1933. He graduated from Gregory Grammar School and John Marshall High School. He received a B.S. degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1955 and his bachelor of law degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1957.
Family
Judge Wolfson's wife, Lauretta Higgins Wolfson, is a circuit court judge for the First Municipal District, as well as an Adjunct Faculty member at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Career
Judge Wolfson was admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1957, the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, in 1963, the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in 1965 and the United States Supreme Court in 1970. He was appointed as a Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County in 1975, elected to a full term in 1976 and retained in 1982, 1988 and 1994. Judge Wolfson was assigned to the Appellate Court, First District, in December 1994.[2]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Chicago Lawyer, "Poet: A way with words," May 25, 2010 (dead link)
- ↑ Judge Wolfson's Biography (dead link) This link is no longer active
