{"id":195,"date":"2019-07-18T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/?p=195"},"modified":"2023-12-05T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T16:21:31","slug":"hon-robert-fioretti-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/hon-robert-fioretti-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Hon Robert Fioretti 71"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>At Mendel:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Honor Society, Junior Class Secretary;\nSophomore Class Treasurer. Varsity Forensic Team; Debate Team; Constitution\nRevision Committee; Student Senate; Chess Club; Science Club; Young Christian\nSociety; Monarch Yearbook Staff; Mendelian News Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Noteworthy Lifetime Achievements: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BA, University of Illinois,\nPullman Scholarship.&nbsp; Student Body\nPresident, Senior Year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juris Doctor, Northern Illinois\nUniversity (NIU), Adjunct Faculty at NIU College of Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alderman 2nd Ward &#8211; City of\nChicago.&nbsp; Elected in 2007 and Re-Elected\nin 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Partner in Law Firm of Fioretti\n&amp; Lower. Former Supervising Attorney &#8211; Corporation Counsel for the City of\nChicago. Has litigated a wide variety of cases in the state and federal courts.\nIn 2006, settled a case for a client who spent 11.5 years in prison for a crime\nhe did not commit being cleared based on DNA evidence. Served as lawyer for the\nfamily of \u201cBaby Tamia\u201d, which led to changes in Illinois\u2019 adoption law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President of the NIU National\nAlumni Association from 2000-4 and Past President of the NIU College of Law\nAlumni Council.&nbsp; Past President of the\nHistoric Pullman Foundation. Served on Character and Fitness Committee of the\nIllinois Supreme Court and Judicial Evaluation Committee of the Chicago Bar\nAssociation Executive Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Mendel: National Honor Society, Junior Class Secretary; Sophomore Class Treasurer. Varsity Forensic Team; Debate Team; Constitution Revision Committee; Student Senate; Chess Club; Science Club; Young Christian Society; Monarch Yearbook Staff; Mendelian News Writer Noteworthy Lifetime Achievements: BA, University of Illinois, Pullman Scholarship.&nbsp; Student Body President, Senior Year. Juris Doctor, Northern Illinois University (NIU), Adjunct Faculty at NIU College of &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/hon-robert-fioretti-71\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hall-of-fame","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}