The Illinois State Bar Association will present Board of Governors Awards to Oak Forest attorney Edward J. Burt, 4th District Appellate Justice M. Carol Pope and Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Julie Ann Sebastian on Friday at the Annual Awards Luncheon during the 136th Annual Meeting at the Abbey Resort on Lake Geneva. Board of Governors Awards are given to ISBA members for significant service to the profession and the public.

Burt is partner with the law firm of Urban & Burt, Ltd. He is a past member of the ISBA Assembly and a current member of the ISBA Family Law Section. He also currently serves as a Board member of the Illinois Bar Foundation.

He is a 1970 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and received his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in 1973.

Pope, of Petersburg, is a Justice with the 4th District Appellate Court in Springfield. She recently finished her term as president of the Illinois Judges Association. Pope was elected Menard County State’s Attorney in 1984 and 1988. In 1991, she was appointed a resident circuit judge of Menard County by the Supreme Court of Illinois and was elected to that position in 1992 and retained in 1998, 2004, and 2010. She was assigned to the Appellate Court in 2008.

She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude and was named to the Bronze Tablet, the university’s highest recognition of academic excellence, in 1975. She obtained her J.D. degree, with honor, from DePaul University School of Law in 1979.

Sebastian, who joined the ISBA after law school, is currently an Assistant Cook County State's Attorney. She has been a Chair of the Administrative Law Section Council, Bench and Bar Section Council and the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section Council. She is an elected member of the Assembly and has served on the Illinois Bar Journal and Bar Services committees.

She received her undergraduate degree from Loyola University, cum laude, and her J.D. from Loyola University College of Law. She also completed a Master of Education degree from the University of Illinois while working in the ISBA CLE Department.
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