RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy has announced her retirement as a Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, effective December 31, 2015, following a long and highly distinguished career in public service; and
WHEREAS, The Chicago City Council has been informed of this event by Alderman Edward M. Burke; and
WHEREAS, The Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy has ably served as a Judge in the Domestic Relations Division since 1994; and
WHEREAS, For more than two decades, the Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy has been assigned an individual calendar and has devoted her career to managing domestic relations cases; and
WHEREAS, Born in Bonne Terre, Missouri where her father ran a flooring business and her mother was an educator, the Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy moved with her family to Chicago's Beverly neighborhood when she was 13 years old; and
WHEREAS, The Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy attended high school at Morgan Park Academy and graduated from Smith College and the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law; and
WHEREAS, From 1989 to 1994, the Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy was the Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for the Chicago City Council's Committee on Finance, where she was responsible for the operations of the Committee, drafting legislation and the redistricting of ward boundaries; and
WHEREAS, The Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy was a staff attorney for the Committee on Finance from 1984 to 1987; and
WHEREAS, From 1987 to 1989, the Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy worked as an attorney for the law firm of Altheimer & Gray where she concentrated on government, zoning and real estate law; and
WHEREAS, A resident of the Near West Side, the Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy is the devoted and loving mother of Morgan IV and Brendan; and
WHEREAS, While her children attended the Frances Xavier Warde School in Chicago, the Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy became actively involved in the school's activities, serving as Chair of its Board of Trustees and as a valued member of the Parent Group Advisory Board; and
WHEREAS, Following her retirement from public service, the Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy plans to open an arbitration and mediation practice; and
WHEREAS, In her spare time, the Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy will continue her philanthropic efforts as well as pursue her love of cooking, travel and golf; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and the members of the Chicago City Council assembled this ninth day of December, 2015 do hereby congratulate the Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy on the occasion of her retirement and do hereby express our sincere gratitude for her devoted service to the people of the City of Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the Honorable Lisa Ruble Murphy.
