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Friday, August 12, 2011

Courts - More on: 7th Circuit Judge Terence Evans dies after battling a sudden, serious illness

Here is a long story/obituary today by Amy Rabideau Silvers in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Terence T. Evans. It begins:

Terry Evans never forgot his roots - a working-class start and an upper flat in the Riverwest neighborhood - even after he was named to the second-highest court in the land.

Nominated by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1995, he served with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, handling appeals from federal trial courts in Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. In 2010, Evans moved to senior status and semiretirement.

"You never do anything just by yourself," he once said. "I've gotten to where I am because of the people in my life who have taken an interest in me."

Later in the story:
Did he think that he was a good judge, Evans was once asked.

"That's a lot like asking if I'm a good kisser," he quipped. "Without having been on the receiving end, I don't really know for sure."

And he spoke plainly about other matters, including the state [Wisconsin] Supreme Court race by Judge Michael Gableman to unseat incumbent Justice Louis Butler. Evans called the campaign a travesty.

"I just think it is a terrible system," he said while at Marquette's law school. "I think (a change) is long past due."

Evans offered a formal dissent on an appeals court ruling upholding Indiana's law on voter ID.

"Let's not beat around the bush," he wrote. "The Indiana voter photo ID law is a not-too-thinly veiled attempt to discourage election day turnout by certain folks believed to skew Democratic."

Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 12, 2011 09:31 AM
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