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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
COMMEMORATING THE LIFE AND MEMORY OF THEODORE GREEN
WHEREAS, Ted Green spent nearly two decades of his life as a Cook County Assistant Public Defender where he was well known and respected by his peers and his adversaries alike for his diligence and devotion to fighting for every client's constitutional rights; and
WHEREAS, Ted Green was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and was the oldest of eight siblings. He excelled as a student at Booker T. Washington High School and attended Clark Atlanta University. Later he graduated from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. and set out to pursue his dream of becoming a lawyer; and
WHEREAS, as a young lawyer, Ted Green moved to Chicago and began his work with the Cook County Public Defender's office a year later. He rose through the ranks and, because of his legal aptitude, his profound compassion and rapport with his clients, he was selected to join the elite Murder Task Force division of the Cook County Public Defender; and
WHEREAS, during the time that Ted Green spent fighting for the lives of his clients on the Murder Task Force, the climate was particularly hostile and societal compassion for poor defendants facing death was at its nadir. It was a difficult time to be a defense attorney fighting for the life of a client; it was an even more difficult time to be a defense attorney for multitudes of clients whose extreme poverty and deprivation left them deeply troubled. With that as a backdrop, Ted became known, not just as an attorney who was meticulously prepared and skilled as a litigator but as one who genuinely believed and valued the humanity of each of his clients and treated them and their families with dignity and respect; and
WHEREAS, in 1984, Ted Green left the public defender's office and went into private practice in Chicago. After several decades he returned to the Public Defender's office in 2003 as a supervisor for t...
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