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New
associate judge for Logan County announced
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[July 06, 2007]
BLOOMINGTON -- Attorney Thomas
M. Harris Jr., a Lincoln native, has been selected by the circuit
judges of the 11th Judicial Circuit to fill the Logan County
associate judge vacancy created by the resignation of Donald A.
Behle.
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 A total of 14 attorneys applied for the position."We were very
pleased with the character and quality of the applicants for this
important position," said Chief Judge Elizabeth A. Robb. "I am
confident that Mr. Harris, who is an excellent attorney, will serve
the citizens of Logan County with honor and distinction. It is
notable that Mr. Harris received a 100 percent ranking for high
standards of integrity and ethical conduct from his fellow attorneys
on the Illinois State Bar Association bar poll."
Harris, a graduate of the University of Illinois and the
University of Colorado School of Law, began his career as a
part-time Logan County assistant state's attorney and was an
associate in the law firm of Harris & Harris in Lincoln. He has
spent the past 16 years as an associate with Jerome Mirza &
Associates in Bloomington, specializing in personal injury law.
He has served as a board member for Chester-East Lincoln School
since 2004 and is on the board of directors of the Illinois Bar
Foundation. He has been a frequent lecturer for Illinois State Bar
Association seminars and serves as the chairman of the tort law and
civil practice sections of the state association. He is also a
member of the Logan and McLean County and Illinois bar associations
and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.
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 Harris is married to Regina, and has three children: Tommy, 12,
Katie, 10, and Dean, 6. His father, Thomas M. Harris Sr., is a
practicing attorney in Lincoln.
A swearing-in ceremony will be on July 16 at 3 p.m. at the Logan
County Courthouse. The public is invited to attend.
For further information or a complete copy of Harris' bar poll
results, please contact Judge Robb or William Scanlon, trial court
administrator, at 309-888-5266.
[Text from news release received from
Chief Judge Elizabeth Robb]
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