RESOLUTION FOR BOARD MEETING OF AUGUST 2, 2018
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RESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners congratulating William Yu for his appointment to Associate Judge of Cook County
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WHEREAS, on May 21, 2018, William “Bill” Yu was appointed Cook County Associate Judge of Cook County, making him the first Korean-American judge in Cook County; and
WHEREAS, most recently, Bill worked as a litigation attorney for Ulmer & Berne LLP focusing on complex business litigation for corporate clients; and
WHEREAS, Bill earned his juris doctorate from the John Marshall Law School in 1996; and
WHEREAS, Bill started his work as an attorney for the City of Chicago Department of Law; and
WHEREAS, over the course of his career, Bill has earned many honors and served on committees including the 2013 Fellow to the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms, the Office of the Judicial Advisory Council of Cook County’s Task Force on Judicial Elections, Lt. Governor Pat Quinn and Mayor Richard M. Daley’s Advisory Councils on Asian Affairs and the Board of Directors for both Heiwa Terrace Senior Housing and the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education; and
WHEREAS, Bill served as a past president of the Asian American Bar Association, as Midwest Regional Governor of the International Association of Korean Lawyers, on the advisory board of the Korean American Bar Association and the Board of Directors of Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we, the Board of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, on behalf of ourselves and staff, do hereby congratulate William Yu for his appointment to Associate Judge of Cook County; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Resolution be spread upon the permanent record of proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
Dated: August 2, 2018
Approved: MARIYANA T. SPYROPOULOS, President; BARBARA J. MCGOWAN, Vice President; FRANK AVILA, Chairman, Committee on Finance; KEN DUNKIN; MARTIN J. DURKAN; JOSINA MORITA; DEBRA SHORE; KARI K. STEELE; DAVID J. WALSH; Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
Approved as to Form and Legality: Susan T. Morakalis, General Counsel