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CURRY FOR JUDGEJohn Curry, an experienced trial lawyer, former Department of Justice attorney, and former Illinois Assistant Attorney General, is eminently qualified by his experience and education to serve our communities as a Cook County Circuit Court Judge.John is a distinguished lawyer who was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1978. He is a partner in the law firm of Polisinelli PC, which is a "Top 100 Law Firm" as recognized by the National Law Journal. He served as a Trial Lawyer for the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. during the Reagan administration. He also served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois from 1981-1983 and as a Special Assistant Attorney General for Illinois from 1995-1998. He has tried dozens of cases to verdict and has argued appeals in the Illinois and federal appeals courts.Since 2007, John has been rated AV Preeminent, the highest lawyer peer review rating of Lexis Nexis Martindale Hubbell, a nationally recognized attorney rating directory. He has been a Member of Chicago's Leading Lawyers Network since 2009 and is rated one of the "Top Lawyers of Chicago" by and ALM. Based on these ratings, John ranks in the top 5% of all practicing attorneys in the Chicago area. John concentrates his law practice in the area of business and commercial litigation. He has been admitted to the bar of other jurisdictions, including the Bar of the United States Supreme Court. He is an active member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, and the Northwest Suburban Bar Association. John has been the recipient of several awards, including the President's Gavel by the Illinois State Society of Washington, D.C. and the Order of Constantine by the Sigma Chi Fraternity.John has been an active national, state, and local leader in the Republican Party for many years. He has been elected to the Cook County Republican Central Committee for 17 years. He has served as both the Vice Chairman at Large and the Treasurer of the Cook County Republican Party. In college he served as Treasurer of the Illinois College Republican Federation as well as the President of the Northwestern Young Republicans. In 1990 he was appointed to the National Board of Directors of the National Young Republican Federation. He is a Reagan Administration Alumni and has worked on numerous Republican campaigns, including Ronald Reagan, Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar, Peter Fitzgerald, Henry Hyde, Phil Crane, Peter Roskam, and Don Totten. He is a patron and member of the Barrington Township Republican Organization.John was a founder of the Chicago Lawyers Division of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, one of the nation's most notable legal public policy groups. John was also active with Project LEAP and other efforts over the years to combat vote fraud in Cook County elections. John has also been a member of the National Republican Lawyers Association for several years, an organization which has been on the forefront of fighting vote fraud.John received his Juris Doctor (law degree) from Vanderbilt University Law School. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. John is a third generation Chicago Republican, carrying on a family tradition begun by his grandfather, the late Chicago Police Captain William Burke, who retired to his farm in the northwest suburbs. John spent much of his childhood at that farm in our area. He currently resides in Barrington with his wife, Jamie, an independent interior designer and a former radio advertising professional. John and his wife are heavily involved in their community. They are members of St Ann's Catholic Church in Barrington and have been supporters of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, Wounded Heroes Foundation, the Midtown Educational Foundation, the American Ireland Fund, Old St. Patrick's Church, MS Chicago, and numerous other charitable and philanthropic organizations. John has also been a member of the City Club of Chicago and the University Club of Chicago.Anthony IoscoRetired Cook County JudgeTyrone FahnerFormer Illinois Attorney GeneralJoseph MorrisFormer Assistant Attorney General of the United StatesCraig BurkhardtPresident of the Republican National Lawyers Association ................
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