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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF JUDGE ALBERT PORTER JR
WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the Cook County Board of Commissioners that former Cook County Circuit Court Judge Albert Porter Jr. made his transition to eternal life, at his home in the Beverly Hills neighborhood of Chicago, on January 5, 2021; and
WHEREAS, Albert Porter Jr. was born in Laurel, Mississippi, the only child of Albert Porter, Sr. and Ora Dase Porter and moved with his family to the South Side of Chicago where he would reside for the remainder of his life; and
WHEREAS, Albert Porter Jr. attended Stephen A. Douglas Elementary School and Wendell Phillips High School, where he played on the junior basketball team and was a member of the National Honor Society; and
WHEREAS, Albert Porter Jr. attended Wilson Junior College and then enrolled at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In 1955, he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree, with a major in Chemistry and minor in Mathematics; and
WHEREAS, Albert Porter Jr. worked as a Metallurgist at Argonne National Laboratory and then taught chemistry and math at Phillips High School where he met his bride-to-be, fellow science teacher, Mildred Viola Birge. They married on December 28,1959, and soon after, began a family with the arrival of their children Alvita Monique, Darryl Craig, Richard Keith and Kimberly Joi; and
WHEREAS, Albert Porter Jr. attended law school at night and received his Juris Doctorate Degree from the John Marshall Law School in 1962, and, that same year, passed the Illinois State Bar exam; and
WHEREAS, Albert Porter Jr. began a long and illustrious legal and judicial career. He became an adjunct professor at John Marshall and worked as a Cook County Assistant State's Attorney and served as a Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Investigation; and
WHEREAS, in 1969, Albert Porter Jr appointed to a vacant position as a Judge of the Circuit Court of the Circuit Court an...
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