{"id":675,"date":"2009-11-23T22:44:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T04:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2009-11-23T22:54:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T04:54:41","slug":"james-vanzant-named-24th-jack-carey-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/23\/james-vanzant-named-24th-jack-carey-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"James Vanzant named 23rd Jack Carey Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jack Carey Scholarship Selection committee met on November 19th to discuss the applicants for the Winter\/Spring 2010 Award. \u00a0The committee, consisting of local president <strong>K. S. Galhotra<\/strong>,<strong> Melissa Smejkal<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Morrissey<\/strong>,<strong> Viola Rouse<\/strong>,<strong> Hon. Paul Stralka<\/strong>,<strong> Daniel Kiss<\/strong>,and<strong> David C. Thomas<\/strong> voted and chose <strong><em>James Vanzant<\/em><\/strong> as the winner.<\/p>\n<p>James was clerking over the summer at 26th Street with <strong>Dena Singer<\/strong>, <strong>Bryan Bowen<\/strong> and <strong>Antoinette Westo<\/strong>n in Judge Rickey Jones&#8217; courtroom. \u00a0As a 711 law student, James was able to do motions, hearings and trials in a felony courtroom under the supervision of local members. \u00a0 Says James, &#8220;I found my summer experience with the Office so rewarding and beneficial that I stayed on as a volunteer intern during the school year, and I intend to continue to do so next semester.&#8221; \u00a0Last year, James externed for Judge Guzman at the Northern District of Illinois. \u00a0James is our first former Marine, an officer who served two combat tours in Iraq. \u00a0Fluent in Arabic, James is expecting his Juris Doctorate from DePaul University College of Law in May, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>James becomes the 23rd recipient of the \u00a0scholarship named in memory of Jack Carey, \u00a0former member of the homicide task force and president of local 3315.<\/p>\n<p>[singlepic id=138 w=320 h=240 float=center]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jack Carey Scholarship Selection committee met on November 19th to discuss the applicants for the Winter\/Spring 2010 Award. \u00a0The committee, consisting of local president K. S. Galhotra, Melissa Smejkal, Michael Morrissey, Viola Rouse, Hon. Paul Stralka, Daniel Kiss,and David C. Thomas voted and chose James Vanzant as the winner. James was clerking over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}