A retired general counsel for the Ford Motor Co. and a Cook County Circuit Court judge will be among the distinguished honorees celebrated by the DePaul University College of Law at its law alumni service awards luncheon to be held at 11:30 a.m., Sept. 20 at the Palmer House Hilton, 17 E. Monroe St. in Chicago. The event will honor four alumni who have made outstanding contributions to the College of Law and to the legal profession by excelling in their respective careers. The event is open to the public, and the cost is $50 per person.

“Graduates of the College of Law are one of the law school’s most valued assets,” said Glen Weissenberger, dean of the College of Law. “They are living examples of the benefits that a solid legal education can provide. They also serve as a strong network that helps the College of Law remain firmly connected to the legal community and beyond. It is an honor for us to recognize our graduates who have made such important contributions to the legal profession and to DePaul.”

Honorees will include:

John W. (“Jack”) Martin—A 1964 graduate, Martin will be honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award for his exemplary legal career and sustained dedication to DePaul. Martin began his legal career in the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He then joined the New York law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine before joining the Ford Motor Co. as a senior staff attorney in 1970. In 1988, he was promoted to the top legal job at Ford—a position from which he retired in 1999. Martin currently works as a volunteer attorney with Gulfcoast Legal Services in Sarasota, Fla., where he represents aliens in removal proceedings.

His contributions to the legal community have been numerous. Among them are co-founding the Civil Justice Reform Group, a consortium of corporations that advocate for reform of product liability laws, and establishing the Corporate Advisory Council of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Martin was elected a trustee of DePaul University in 1998 and a Life Trustee in 2007.

The Hon. Bertina Lampkin—A 1974 graduate, Lampkin will receive the Outstanding Service to the Profession Award, which is given to alumni who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their chosen filed or specialty. Lampkin serves as the supervising judge of the Cook County Criminal Division. Prior to that, she worked as an assistant state’s attorney in the Appellate Division where she tried approximately 40 criminal jury trials and won all but two. In 1987, she was appointed an associate judge of the Cook County Circuit Court, where she became an assistant supervisor of the Traffic Division in 1988. She was elected to the Circuit Court of Cook County in 1992 and worked in the criminal division and night narcotics court before being named supervising judge of the Domestic Violence Court in 1996.

Lampkin also participates in a wide range of activities beyond her duties on the bench. She serves or has served on the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Capital Case Litigation, the Intermediate Sanctions for Women Offenders Steering Committee and the Governor’s Criminal Code Rewrite Reform Committee. In 1991, she was honored by the National Black Prosecutors Association with its Distinguished Service Award. In 1992 and 1998 she received the Illinois Judicial Counsel’s Meritorious Service Award.

Gregory J. Vogler—A 1984 graduate, Vogler will be recognized with the Outstanding Service to DePaul Award, which is awarded for exemplary service to DePaul through such avenues as volunteerism or philanthropy. A co-founder of the law firm McAndrews, Held & Malloy Ltd., Vogler has enjoyed a career as a successful patent litigator. He took a lead role in briefing a 1989 patent case, Eli Lilly v. Medtronic, before the U.S. Supreme Court. Vogler has been identified as a Leading Lawyer by the Leading Lawyers Network, which profiles the top lawyers in Illinois based on peer recommendations. At DePaul, Vogler has served on the College of Law’s Intellectual Property Advisory Board since 2001 and helped DePaul with its community outreach as a member of the President’s Constituency Base.

Michael G. Bergmann—A 2002 graduate, Bergmann will receive the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award, which recognizes outstanding graduates who earned their law degrees within the past 10 years and/or are under the age of 40. Committed to extending free legal services to low-income and under represented people in Illinois, Bergmann is the director of the Pro Bono Initiative, a joint project of the Public Interest Law Initiative and the Chicago Bar Foundation. Prior to that, he directed the guardian ad litem program for Chicago Legal Services. Bergmann also is active in numerous legal activities outside his practice. He has chaired the legal subcommittee of the City of Chicago Mayor’s Citywide Task Force on Grandparents and Raising Grandchildren, and he was appointed to the American Bar Association’s Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity in the Profession. He also serves as the chair of the Standing Committee on Public Education of the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyer’s Division, and as vice chair of the Illinois Bar Association’s Child Law Section Council.

To register for the luncheon, contact the College of Law at 312/362-5113 or register online at www.law.depaul.edu/alumni. ###