Service

Judge Bates is a man of service:

To the Community—

Current Boards & Commissions — Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation Legacy Board; Creighton University School of Law Advisory Board - Vice Chairperson; Mendel Catholic Prep Alumni Legacy Foundation - Chairperson; Gilda's Club African American Advisory Council; Legal Prep Academy Advisory Board;

Previous — Chairman, Illinois Civil Service Commission; Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago; Project LEAP (Legal Elections in All Precincts); Niles College Seminary of Loyola University; Cook County Bar Association; Federal Bar Associations (Chicago Chapter); Nebraska Urban League; Young Executives In Politics; Circuit Court of Cook County, Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Sexual Orientation Awareness; City of Chicago, Aids Advisory Council; Swish Dreams Sports & Educational Foundation; Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Formerly a Boy Scouts of America Volunteer, Chicago Park District Volunteer, director of youth basketball programs at various NBA Player-sponsored camps, Cole, Sheridan and Tuley Parks, as well as Frances Xavier Warde School, where I also coached track. Served as the Director of Basketball Operations for the Swish Dreams Sports & Educational Foundation’s Math, Language Arts & Basketball 2010 & 2011 Summer Camps.

To the Profession—

Current — Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Committee of the Illinois Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism.

Previous —

• President, Cook County Bar Association
• Founder & Chairperson, Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms
• Illinois Supreme Court’s Committee on Character & Fitness; Hearing Panel Member & Oversight Committee, Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Illinois Supreme Court
• Illinois Judicial Council
• National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
• Illinois Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
• ABA, National Conference of the Administrative Law Judiciary
• National Association of Hearing Officials
• Federal Trial Bar, N.D. Ill. Admitted 08/09/90 (General Bar 02/24/84)
• Chairperson, Chicago Bar Association, YLS, Minorities in the Profession Committee
• Chairperson, American Bar Association (“ABA”), YLD, Minorities in the Profession
• Committee Commissioner, ABA Commission on Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession
• Illinois State Bar Association, Minority Participation & Judicial Evaluation Committees
• ABA Standing Committee on Lawyer Competence
• ABA Conference of Minority Partners in Majority/Corporate Law Firms
• Vice-Chair, ABA Labor & Employment Law Committee, General Practice Section
• National Bar Association, National Issues Committee, and Labor & Employment Law Section