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Melinda Pine | |
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| Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County | |
| In office May 6, 1998 – Ongoing | |
| Appointed by | Jim Edgar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 14, 1952[1] Chicago, IL, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Radcliffe College University of Chicago |
Melinda Pine (b. March 14, 1962) is an associate judge on the Circuit Court of Cook County.
Early life and education[edit]
Melinda Pine was born on March 14, 1962 in Chicago, IL, where she grew up in a working-class family. She attended the public schools there.[2][3]
She obtained a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College, in 1984 and graduated from University of Chicago Law School, in 1987.[4][5]
Legal career[edit]
Before joining the bench, Pine worked as a staff attorney for Hoffsteader and Associates and was central in the drafting of standards of practice for Child Advocate Attorneys with the Illinois Bar Association.[4][2][5] She subsequently served on the American Bar Association Committee for the Protection of the Child from 1992 to 1993.[5] She was an arbitrator for City of Chicago DCFS, and a certified mediator in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan from 1993 to 1999. She was designated as a justice for the Circuit Court of Cook County, in 1999 by Governor Jim Edgar. She served as an associate justice specializing in family law until her elevation in 2013.[5]
Personal life[edit]
Pine married Aiden Pine (née Nedra) in 1986. He gave up his career as an accountant in 1994 and is a full time homemaker. He serves as the vice-president of the Cook County Genealogical society. In 2006 he notably audited the public accounts of several historical societies and exposed a serial embezzler[6][7]
Although Pine has publicly declared herself as Methodist, rumors have abounded that she is a spiritualist from an unknown pagan tradition.
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- ^ a b "United States' first female Muslim judge found dead in New York". The Guardian. April 13, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Honorable Sheila Abdus-Salaam". New York Court of Appeals. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
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- ^ "Senator Parker Commends The Nomination of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam: Congratulates the Governor on Selecting the First African American Woman Justice for New York's High Court", nysenate.gov, April 11, 2013; accessed April 17, 2017.