Bill of Rights," which will begin at 4 p.m. in room 905 at 25 E. Jackson. Call Susan Alico, (312) 362-6229.
Becker was a professor at the University of Chicago law School from 1982 until she joined the DePaul faculty in July. She is a cum laude graduate of the U.C. Law School and a former clerk for Abner J. Mikva and Lewis F. Powell.
SIU receives gift from Lesar estate
A gift of $369,000 from the estate of Hiram H. Lesar to the Southern Illinois University School of Law will endow a distinguished lecture series or fund a visiting professorship, according to Dean Thomas Guernsey.
The founding dean of the law school from 1972 to 1980, Lesar served twice as SIU's acting president. He received the university's Distinguished Service Award in 1991 and the law school Founders' Medal posthumously in March.
When Hiram Lesar died in 1997, his estate was left to a son, Byron Lee Lesar, who died in April. The endowment for SIU is a portion of the remaining trust.
James Murray's career spanned six decades
James C. Murray of Chicago, a retired justice of the Illinois Appellate Court who also served in Congress and on the Chicago City Council, died Oct. 19 at age 82 in an Oak Lawn hospital.
A 1940 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, Mr. Murray served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was in private practice until 1951, when he became regional enforcement director for the Office of Price Stabilization.
Mr. Murray was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1956 for one two-year term. His legal career included service as an assistant Cook County state's attorney and assistant Illinois attorney general.
Elected to the City Council as 18th Ward alderman in 1959, Mr. Murray served eight years during which he was vice chair of the finance committee and president pro tempore. He sponsored the city's first fair housing law, which passed by four votes.
Opposition to his fair housing activism resulted in his losing a 1966 judicial election, but he became a judge of the Cook County Circuit Court in 1970. Judge Murray was on the Appellate Court from 1986 until his retirement in 1994.
He was a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee to Recommend Rules of Evidence, the Judicial Conference Committee on Evidence and the Committee on Complex Litigation.
Judge Murray received a Pacem in Terris Award for exemplifying Christian ideals and a Chicago Commission on Human Relations Award for equal opportunity in the area of housing.
He was grand marshal of the St. Patrick's Day parade in 1991 and had been given the Fahey Flynn Award five years earlier. He also received an Outstanding Alumnus Award from Quigley Seminar, where he attended high school.
Survivors include a brother, Cook County Associate Judge Michael J. Murray, and two sons who are Chicago attorneys: James C. Murray Jr. of Katten, Muchin & Zavis, and Michael J. Murray of Carey, Filter, White & Boland.
G. Albert Scott
Retired appellate justice and former state senator G. Albert Scott of Canton died Sept. 30 at age 78. A 1949 graduate of the University of Illinois, he had served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific during World War II.
One year out of law school in 1950, Mr. Scott was elected Fulton County judge. In 1952, he was elected to the Illinois Senate and served until 1959. He practiced in Canton with Walter J. Sebo until 1966, when he was elected to the 9th Circuit Court.
Judge Scott served intermittently on the Illinois Appellate Court from 1970 to 1976, and continuously from 1976 until his retirement from the circuit court in 1988. He was recalled from 1988 to 1990.
Charles Adams
Charles M. Adams, a McHenry County justice of the peace from 1953 to 1961, died Sept. 23 at age 73 of heart failure. Also a member of the McHenry Police Pension Board and former McHenry County auditor, he was an officer of the McHenry Savings Bank, McHenry Savings and Loan and the McHenry branch of Cragin Federal Savings.
Sterling Bilderback
Retired attorney Sterling Glen Bilderback of Quincy died Sept. 28 at age 88. A graduate of the St. Louis City College of Law, he began practicing with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Illinois and Missouri.
Mr. Bilderback had a private practice in Missouri and was an attorney for American Family Insurance for 25 years before he retired in 1976. He was past president of the National Association of Federal Employees in St. Louis and a former director of the Illinois Farm Bureau in Schuyler County.
Philip Hoffman
Philip A. Hoffman Sr., a property tax lawyer and chief executive officer of the National Bureau of Property Administration, died Sept. 25 at age 68 in a Chicago hospital. A graduate of the Indiana University Law School, he was past president of the National Council on Property Taxation.
Grant Johnson
Retired Oak Brook attorney Grant L. Johnson died Oct. 5 at age 70 in his home. After Navy service during the Korean War, he graduated in 1957 from the Harvard University Law School.
Mr. Johnson began his legal career with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Cleveland. He was with Pickands, Mather & Co. in Cleveland from 1958 to 1971, becoming general counsel and secretary. Relocating to Chicago, Mr. Johnson joined InterLake Inc. He retired in 1991 as general counsel and vice president of law.
Carol Manzoni
Chicago attorney Carol Berlin Manzoni, co-chair of the executive committee of Ross & Hardies from 1995 to 1998, died Oct. 9 at age 52 in her home.
A 1977 graduate of the Catholic University of America Law School, Ms. Manzoni was admitted that year to the Illinois bar. She joined Ross & Hardies in 1989 and was appointed to the executive committee in 1992. She also was co-chair of the Labor and Employment Group.
Survivors include her husband, Michael G. Hron of Sidley & Austin, Chicago.
J. Stirling Mortimer
Retired Chicago attorney J. Stirling Mortimer dies Oct. 7 at age 80 in his Lockport home. A 1942 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he was an Army Intelligence officer during World War II.
An attorney for the Cook County Forest Preserve District in land acquisition for many years, Mr. Mortimer published a textbook on contract law and taught it at DePaul for 30 years at an annual salary of $1.
Survivors include a son, John S. Mortimer of Wood, Phillips, VanSanten, Clark & Mortimer, Chicago.
LeRoy Weis
Retired Chicago corporate lawyer LeRoy Weis died Oct. 18 at age 95 in his Northbrook home. A 1927 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he was with Gottlieb & Schwartz for most of his 60 years in practice, retiring as of counsel in 1989.
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