Faith in Action: Saving Your Soul While Trying (or Judging) Cases
Speakers
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Judge Thomas DonnellyJudge, Circuit Court of Cook CountyAppointed by Illinois Supreme Court a Cook County Circuit Judge on December 3, 2021, after nearly twenty years’ service as an Associate Judge, he sits in the Law Division, Commercial Calendar, presiding over motions and
trials in business disputes. For ten years before coming to the Commercial Calendar, he heard personal injury trials. He has presided over nearly four hundred jury trials. He serves on the faculty of the National Judicial College.
He served as founding board chair of the Illinois Judicial College. Before becoming a judge, he served as an assistant public defender for thirteen years.He has served as President of the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network, sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute, since 2021 conducting dialogues between the system impacted and system responsible in ten cities across the
country.Tom has taught at Loyola Law School since 1987. He currently teaches Illinois Litigation: Race, Injustice and Poverty. Tom serves on the advisory boards/committees for Loyola’s Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture, and St. Gregory’s Hall. He served as president of the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago from 2015-16, which had named him 2014 Catholic Lawyer of the Year; he has served on the Guild’s board since 1988. Married to Anne Wicker, the have
four sons and live in Queen of Apostle’s parish where he teaches RCIA.
About the Event
The Faith in Action lecture series, an initiative of Catholic Law’s Center for Law and the Human Person, seeks to provide students with living examples of lawyers who witness to their faith through their vocation to law.
