After a brief law practice, Mr. Specter became an insurance broker and estate planner for Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co. He retired in 1983.
A board member of the North River Commission, a coalition of community groups, from 1962 to 1990, Mr. Specter helped prevent the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium site from becoming a shopping mall and condominiums. It is now North Park Village, a park and affordable senior citizen housing complex.
Arthur Strong
Retired 8th Circuit associate judge Arthur R. Strong of Rushville died Jan. 17 at age 60 in his home. He was a 1968 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law.
In addition to private practice, Mr. Strong was Rushville city attorney, Schuyler County state's attorney, and an assistant state's attorney in Sangamon and Cass Counties. He was an associate judge from 1983 until 1999.
Carl Sussman
Retired federal magistrate Carl B. Sussman of Chicago died recently at age 90. A1937 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, he was one of the first five appointed magistrates of U.S. District Court for the Northern District, serving from 1971 to 1984.
A past president of the Decalogue Society, Mr. Sussman was a member of the Chicago Bar Association Board of Managers and the board of the Loop Synagogue. He served on the state Pardon and Parole Board and the city House of Corrections Board.
Survivors include a son, Chicago attorney Paul J. Sussman.
Berniece Taylor
Retired Flossmoor attorney Berniece Pollock Taylor died Jan. 5 at age 99. A former teacher, she worked her way through law school by doing secretarial work for professors and teaching at night in a South Chicago community center.
A 1931 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, she was a law clerk to a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and a reviewer of Indiana Supreme Court opinions for Callaghan Publishing.
She was married to attorney Herman Taylor. Their survivors include a son, retired attorney William M. Taylor of Northbrook.
Charles Taylor
Harrisburg attorney Charles Deneen Taylor died Nov. 21 at age 80 in Harrisburg Medical Center. A veteran of service as an Army Air Corps lieutenant and bombardier during World War II, he graduated in 1981 from the Southern Illinois University School of Law.
A chartered life underwriter, Mr. Taylor owned the Rose-Taylor Insurance Agency and Taylor Realty in addition to his law practice. He became a life member of the Million Dollar Roundtable in 1975.
Jon Waltz
Retired law professor Jon R. Waltz died Jan. 9 at age 74 of a heart attack in his Holland, Mich., home. A 1954 graduate of the Yale University Law School, he joined Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Cleveland.
From 1955 to 1958, Mr. Waltz served in the Army Judge Advocate General Corps while on leave from the firm. He was decorated for his work as a special prosecutor in a Cold War espionage case.
Mr. Waltz became an associate professor at the Northwestern University School of Law in 1964 and subsequently became the Edna and Ednyfed Williams Memorial Professor. He retired in 1996.
A prolific author, Mr. Waltz was the author or co-author of 12 books, including "The Trial of Jack Ruby" and the textbooks, "Cases and Materials on Evidence" and "Medical Jurisprudence," which won a Distinguished Service Award from the Society of American Authors.
He was a consultant to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the National Institute of Health.
Bernard Wolf
Retired attorney and real estate developer Bernard R. Wolf of Hazel Crest died Jan. 9 at age 90 after a heart attack in the home of his daughter in Smyrna, Ga.
A 1936 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Wolf founded the commercial and residential development firm of Gilbert & Wolf. He retired in 2002.
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