Thomas J. Moran (judge)

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Thomas Joseph Moran (July 17, 1920 – September 14, 1995) was an American jurist who served as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1976 to 1992.

Born in Waukegan, Illinois, Moran served in the United States Coast Guard from July 1943 to June 1945.D.S.S. Form 1 Military Draft Registration Card completed on February 15, 1942. Place of birth is listed as Waukegan, Illinois, and Employer's Name and Address is listed as "American Can Co. (Waukegan Machine Shop) Waukegan, Ill.""Index Record for Thomas Moran (1920) Veterans Affairs Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem Death File", Fold3 by Ancestry.com website. Retrieved February 3, 2022. Enlistment Date is listed as "12 Jul 1943" and Release Date is listed as "23 Jun 1945". Moran then received his bachelor's degree from Lake Forest College in 1947 and his law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1950.[https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=SYT19640925.2.16&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN---------- "Present Judge Thomas Moran As Candidate"], The Sycamore Tribune, Sycamore, Illinois, volume 63, number 42, September 25, 1964, pages 1 and 5 (available online at the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections at the Illinois University Library). He lived in Lake Forest, Illinois. Moran served as state's attorney for Lake County, Illinois, as probate judge and as circuit court judge for Lake County. From 1976 to 1992, Moran served on the Illinois Supreme Court and was chief justice of the supreme court. Moran died in a hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois.[http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/SupremeCourt/JusticeArchive/Bio_Moran.asp Illinois Supreme Court-Thomas J. Moran] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304045322/http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/SupremeCourt/JusticeArchive/Bio_Moran.asp|date=2016-03-04}}."Ex-state Chief Justice Thomas Moran", Chicago Tribune, Kenan Heise, September 16, 1995