Board of Commissioners of Cook County - File #: 19-1896

• File #: 19-1896
• Version: 1
• Name: HONORING JESSICA LYNN BRYAR FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED
• Type: Consent Calendar Resolution
• Status: Approved
• File created: 2/14/2019
• In control: Board of Commissioners
• On agenda: 3/20/2019
• Final action: 3/20/2019
• Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION HONORING JESSICA LYNN BRYAR FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED WHEREAS, Jessica Lynn Bryar was a proud and accomplished employee of the Cook County Public Defender's Office for more than twenty years; and WHEREAS, after a valiant fight, Jessica Lynn Bryar succumbed to illness on February 3, 2019. She was 46 years old; and WHEREAS, Jessica earned her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and B.A. from Boston College. During law school she supplemented her studies by serving as a Street Law Teacher in three Chicago schools and was a Program Coordinator for a Chicago social service agency that serves teen mothers. She also volunteered at First Defense Legal Aid, an organization that provides legal representation and advice to individuals taken into police custody. There, she interviewed clients, documented circumstances of arrest, negotiated for clients' release and facilitated communication with family; and WHEREAS, as a Williams Fellow throughout law school, she...
• Sponsors: LARRY SUFFREDIN, TONI PRECKWINKLE (President), ALMA E. ANAYA, LUIS ARROYO JR, SCOTT R. BRITTON, JOHN P. DALEY, DENNIS DEER, BRIDGET DEGNEN, BRIDGET GAINER, BRANDON JOHNSON, BILL LOWRY, DONNA MILLER, STANLEY MOORE, KEVIN B. MORRISON, SEAN M. MORRISON, PETER N. SILVESTRI, DEBORAH SIMS, JEFFREY R. TOBOLSKI

Date	Ver.	Action By	Motion	Result
3/20/2019	1	Board of Commissioners	approve	Pass

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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

HONORING JESSICA LYNN BRYAR FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED

WHEREAS, Jessica Lynn Bryar was a proud and accomplished employee of the Cook County Public Defender's Office for more than twenty years; and

WHEREAS, after a valiant fight, Jessica Lynn Bryar succumbed to illness on February 3, 2019. She was 46 years old; and

WHEREAS, Jessica earned her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and B.A. from Boston College. During law school she supplemented her studies by serving as a Street Law Teacher in three Chicago schools and was a Program Coordinator for a Chicago social service agency that serves teen mothers. She also volunteered at First Defense Legal Aid, an organization that provides legal representation and advice to individuals taken into police custody. There, she interviewed clients, documented circumstances of arrest, negotiated for clients' release and facilitated communication with family; and

WHEREAS, as a Williams Fellow throughout law school, she re-developed volunteer teaching program at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. She researched Law Related Education (LRE) programs nation-wide, attended national LRE conferences, assessed residents' needs, developed and co-authored LRE curricula, recruited volunteers, developed and conducted training sessions, implemented program each semester for over 60 student and other professional volunteers and evaluated program's effectiveness; and

WHEREAS, in the summer of 1996, she worked as an extern for the Honorable George M. Marovich, assisting clerks in the drafting of opinions, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; and

WHEREAS, Jessica joined the Cook County Public Defender's Office as an assistant public defender in December 1998. Jessica worked in the First Municipal, Juvenile Justice, Felony, and Civil Divisions, becoming an Attorney Supervisor in Civil in 2008. As an Attorney Supervisor, she aided in the development of the new...