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| Affiliation | Harold Washington |
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| Name | R. Eugene Pincham |
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Chicago, Illinois , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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June 28, 1925
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| Died | April 03, 2008
(82 years)
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Modifed | MadViking
Jun 28, 2008 04:20pm |
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| Info | R. Eugene Pincham, human rights activist, lawyer, former judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, and justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, is a strident critic of the criminal justice system. He was born on June 28, 1925, in Chicago but grew up impoverished in Alabama.
After his high school graduation in 1942, Pincham became interested in becoming a lawyer. He attended college at LeMoyne College in Memphis and in 1944 he transferred to Tennessee State University in Nashville, where he earned a B.S. in political science in 1947. In 1948, he married his college sweetheart, Alzata C. Henry, and that same year enrolled in Northwestern University School of Law. Despite the fact that he had to wait tables at the Palmer House Hotel and shine shoes as a full-time student, Pincham earned a J.D. in 1951.
Pincham then began to practice law as an attorney in the state and federal courts. In 1954, he accepted an offer to practice law with the firm that became Evins, Pincham, Fowlkes and Cooper. In 1965, R. Pincham was admitted to the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1976, Pincham became a Circuit Court of Cook County judge and was assigned to the Criminal Division, where he served until 1984. Pincham went on to become a justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois. There, he gained a reputation as one who sought justice for the poor as well as the rich.
Pincham resigned from the bench in 1989 and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. In 1991, he became the Harold Washington Party's nominee for mayor of Chicago. Although he lost, Pincham carried nineteen of the city's fifty wards - a powerful endorsement from the African American community.
A member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a lifetime member of the NAACP, the semi-retired Pincham lectures and instructs in trial and appellate techniques and advocacy. He has received numerous awards for his professional and community service and activism.
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| IL District 07 - D Primary - Mar 19, 1996 |
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Danny K. Davis |
| Chicago Ward 04 - Apr 02, 1991 |
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Timothy Evans |
| Chicago Ward 16 - Apr 02, 1991 |
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Shirley Coleman |
| Chicago Ward 09 - Apr 02, 1991 |
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Robert Shaw |
| Chicago Ward 15 - Apr 02, 1991 |
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Clarence T. White |
| Chicago Ward 20 - Apr 02, 1991 |
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Dino F. McNeal |
| Chicago Ward 24 - Apr 02, 1991 |
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Jesse L. Miller, Jr. |
| Chicago Ward 29 - Apr 02, 1991 |
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Sam Burrell |
| Chicago Ward 27 - Apr 02, 1991 |
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Rickey R. Hendon |
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