Dawn Clark Netsch
| Dawn Clark Netsch | |
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| Comptroller of Illinois | |
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In office January 14, 1991 – January 9, 1995 |
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| Governor | Jim Edgar |
| Preceded by | Roland Burris |
| Succeeded by | Loleta Didrickson |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 16, 1926 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | March 5, 2013 (aged 86) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Walter Netsch |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University |
Dawn Clark Netsch (September 16, 1926 – March 5, 2013) was an Illinois professor of law and politician. A member of the Democratic Party in the United States, she served in the Illinois State Senate, as Illinois Comptroller and in 1994 was the first woman to be nominated by a major political party to run for Governor of Illinois.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Netsch graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Northwestern University in Evanston in 1948; she was selected for membership in Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society in her junior year. She graduated #1 in her class from the university's law school in 1952 and had been a faculty member since 1965. She worked on Adlai Stevenson's 1952 presidential campaign and then at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington & Burling. Returning to Chicago, she was in private practice from 1957 to 1961 and then joined the staff of Gov. Otto Kerner.
In 1970, she was elected to be a delegate at the Illinois Constitutional Convention which took place later that year. In 1972, she was elected to the State Senate as a Democrat, first representing the 13th district, then the 4th district. Along with state representatives Abner Mikva (later Congressman, Chief Justice of the Second Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, and Counsel to President Bill Clinton), Paul Simon (later U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate), and Anthony Scariano, she was part of the "Kosher Nostra" of clean, independent Democrats in the General Assembly who were a thorn in the side of the Republican and Democratic machine politicians for years.
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