Join the Tenth Congressional District Democrats for our Annual Awards Dinner – Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Join the Tenth Congressional District Democrats for our Annual Awards Dinner presenting Scott Turow Prominent Attorney, Best-Selling Author and Social Justice Advocate

We also take pleasure in honoring:

Ron Schwartz, Founders Award recipient

Roger Baron, Rosenblit Volunteer Award recipient

State Senator Julie Morrison, Mikva Leadership Award recipient

Tuesday, November 1 • 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30)

Embassy Suites

1445 Lake Cook Road

Deerfield, IL 60015

For more information, visit tenthdems.org/dinner2016, email events@tenthdems.org, or call 847-266-VOTE (8683)

SPACE WILL BE LIMITED

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Keynote Speaker Scott Turow, Biographical Information:

• Born in Chicago; graduated from New Trier High School

• Graduate of Amherst College (with high honors) and Harvard Law School (cum laude); fellow at Stanford University Creative Writing Center

• Recipient of the Order of Lincoln, considered the state’s highest award, honoring “individuals whose contributions to the betterment of humanity have been accomplished in Illinois”

• Served on the U.S. Senate Nominations Commission for the Northern District of Illinois, which recommends federal judicial appointments

• Lead counsel in numerous public corruption cases as a Federal Prosecutor

• Served on Illinois' Executive Ethics Commission and the Commission on Capital Punishment, among others

• Author of 10 best-selling works of fiction and two non-fiction books, selling more than 30 million copies worldwide; former President of the Authors Guild

• Awarded the RFK Book Award for Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty

• His perennial best-seller One L about his experiences in his first year of law school is a classic for generations of law students

• The film adaptation of Presumed Innocent, his first novel, starred Harrison Ford and was one of the highest grossing films of the year

• His novel Personal Injuries was one of Time magazine’s best fiction books of the year

• Frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic; featured on the cover of Time magazine

• Partner in the Chicago office of Dentons (formerly Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal)

• Celebrity Jeopardy! Champion, beating Susan Lucci and Paul Shaffer and winning $50,000 for Literacy Chicago