Anne M. Burke
Anne Marie McGlone Burke, SMOM (born February 3, 1944) is an Illinois Supreme Court Justice for the First Judicial District (Cook County, Illinois) and, along with other notables including Eunice Kennedy, is a founder of the Special Olympics. Judge Burke was first appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court in 1995 and then was elected to the Appellate Court in 1996.
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“My weary limbs are scarcely stretched for repose, before red dawn peeps into my chamber window, and the birds in the whispering leaves over the roof, apprise me by their sweetest notes that another day of toil awaits me. I arise, the harness is hastily adjusted and once more I step upon the tread-mill.”
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