Chicago attorney Dolores K. Hanna, a pillar among the women's bar and intellectual property lawyers, retired from active practice June 1 and has resigned from Bell, Boyd & Lloyd.

The Illinois State Bar Association honored Hanna twice in recent years – as a Senior Counsellor with 50 years of membership in good standing, and as a Laureate of the Academy of Illinois Lawyers. She is a member of the Academy Board of Regents.

President of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois in 1962-63, she also was president of the Women's Bar Foundation, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, the International Trademark Association, and the Cook County Court Watchers.

A 1952 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Hanna has been special trademark counsel at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, and previously practiced at Hill & Simpson and Kraft Inc. She chaired the Trademark Review Commission from 1985 to 1987.

Hanna has served as honorary chair of the Trademark Association's Brand Names Education Foundation, which named a Dolores K. Hanna Best Brief Award in her honor for moot court competition.

She has been a board member of the Public Interest Law Initiative, and an advisory board member of the John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property Law.

Other honors include a Justice John Paul Stevens Award from the Chicago Bar Association, a Founder's Award from the CBA Alliance for Women, a Professional Achievement Award from the Chicago-Kent Alumni Association, and a President's Award from the International Trademark Association.