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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Justice Freddrenna M. Lyle has been honored by the Cook County Bar Association at their Legend's Award Dinner for her diverse and distinguished legal career; and
WHEREAS, Justice Freddrenna Lyle was raised in the Park Manor neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois and attended Park Manor Elementary School and South Shore High School; and
WHEREAS, Judge Lyle earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall School of Law. Justice Lyle was admitted to the Illinois Bar Association in 1980; and
WHEREAS, before joining the bench, Judge Lyle served as an Alderman in Chicago's 6th Ward from 1998 to 2011 and previously worked in private practice for many years both as a solo practitioner and as partner. Simultaneously she created Lyle for Kids a not-for-profit that provided afterschool and summer programming for more than 9000 children; and
WHEREAS, Justice Lyle was appointed to the Circuit Court of Cook County in Dec. 2011. She presided over cases in Elder Law, Mortgage Foreclosure and was appointed as the Supervising Judge of the Surety Section in June 2022. On December 2, 2023, she was honored with an appointment to the Illinois Appellate Court First District; and
WHEREAS, Justice Lyle is a member and Past President of the Cook County Bar Association, and the Illinois Judicial Council; a Board Member of the Judicial Council of the National Bar Association; and a member of the Black Women Lawyers Assoc., the Illinois Judges Assoc., and the American Judges Assoc. She served on the Supreme Court Judicial Education Committee for several years including her service as co-Chair of the biannual judicial education conference (EdCon). She was elevated to the Illinois Judicial College Board of Trustees in August 2023; and
WHEREAS, Justice Lyle's memberships have included Park Manor Neighbors, Chatham Avalon Park Community Council, NAACP,...
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