EDUCATION:
LAW SCHOOL: University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence Kansas 66045
J.D., 1978
UNDERGRADUATE: Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706
B.A. (cum laude), History/Zoology, 1975
Justice, Illinois Appellate Court, 1st District
Appointed August 3, 2009 by Illinois Supreme Court
to fill the Justice Leslie South vacancy.
Supervising Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County (1999 – 2009)
· Housing Section, First Municipal Division.
Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County, (1995)
· Child Protection Division.
Associate Regional Counsel U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Chicago, Illinois (1979 – 1995)
Judicial and Administrative Litigation – Including Trial and Hearing
Practice – under all Federal Environmental Statutes Enforced by the U.S. EPA.
Law Clerk, Hon. Herbert W. Walton, District Judge,Tenth
Judicial District of Kansas, (1977)
JUDICIAL AND SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS
Member, Supreme Court of Illinois Committee on Professional Responsibility
(1999 – present).
Commissioner, Supreme Court of Illinois
Committee on Character and Fitness (1993 – 1997)
· Evaluation of Applicants for Admission to the Illinois Bar –
Including Inquiry & Hearing Practice – Pursuant to Supreme Court
Rules & Regulations.
Special Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of
Michigan, Detroit, Michigan (1994 – 1995).
· Civil Environmental Litigation
ADMITTED
Supreme Court of Illinois
Supreme Court of Kansas
U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and
Tenth Circuits
U.S. District Court for the Central and Northern Districts of Illinois
(General and Trial Bars)
U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
HONORS AND AWARDS
United States Government Bronze Medal for Toxic Litigation, 1984
United States Government Bronze Medal for Toxic Litigation, 1988
United States Government Bronze Medal for Clean Water Act
Litigation, 1992
United States Government Distinguished Service Award, 1993.
LEGAL PUBLICATIONS:
Coggins, George C. and Sebastian Patti.
1979. Resurrection and Expansion of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
50 University of Colorado Law Review 165. [Noted 444 U.S. 51 (1979)].
1980. Emerging Law of Wildlife II. A Narrative Bibliography of
Federal Wildlife Law.
4 Harvard Environmental Law Review 164.
SOCIAL/CIVIC/PRO BONO ACTIVITIES:
Member, Board of Directors, Steppenwolf Theater Company (1989 – 1998)
Member, Board of Directors, and Pro Bono Volunteer, AIDS Legal Counsel of Chicago, (1994 – 1995)
Pro Bono Volunteer, Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic (1994 – 1995)
Criminal Defense of Indigent Defendants during all stages of the Criminal Process in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
