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Northwest suburb bar honors Judge WrightCook County Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr., who will be installed next month as president of the Chicago Bar Association, was honored April 17 by the Northwest Suburban Bar Association. Presiding judge of the 1st Municipal District, he received a Public Service Award during the association's Judges' Night dinner in Rosemont. Among other achievements, he has been instrumental in the establishment of self-help desks at which volunteer attorneys provide information to litigants and thus relieve court personnel from this day-to-day task. A 1977 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Wright was appointed to the circuit court in 1994. He was assigned to the Probate Division, where he had been a guardian ad litem, and to the 1st Municipal District. He became presiding judge in 2003. Prior to his career at the bar and on the bench, Wright had been a high school teacher, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, where he earned a doctorate in education, and associate dean of Joliet Junior College for three years. He serves on the board of Chicago Urban Day School and has been active in Equip for Equality and the Guardianship Reform Project. Judge Wright received a Chairperson's Award in 2003 from the Illinois Judicial Council, and a Vanguard Award in 2006 at a Chicago Bar Association luncheon for minority bar associations. His installation as CBA president will take place during a luncheon Thursday, June 19, in the Grand Ballroom of the Standard Club. Contact Tamra Drees at (312) 554-2057 or tdrees@chicagobar.org for reservations. Other incoming officers are Vice Presidents Anita M. Alvarez and Terri L. Mascherin, Secretary Aurora N. Abella-Austriaco, and Treasurer Robert A. Clifford. |
