{"id":7538,"date":"2009-10-18T22:56:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=7538"},"modified":"2009-10-19T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T12:43:12","slug":"justinians-honor-professor-blinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2009\/10\/justinians-honor-professor-blinka\/","title":{"rendered":"Justinians Honor Professor Blinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/rsz_danblinka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7541\" title=\"rsz_danblinka\" src=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/rsz_danblinka.jpg\" alt=\"rsz_danblinka\" width=\"91\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a>Last weekend, together with a number of colleagues (including Professor Emeritus James D. Ghiardi and Professors Irene Calboli and Thomas J. Hammer), I attended the Justinian Society\u2019s annual Columbus Day dinner. The society consists primarily of Italian-American lawyers and their families and meets at the Third Ward\u2019s Italian Community Center (which, former Milwaukee County Circuit Court Chief Judge Patrick T. Sheedy, L\u201948, once remarked, might well have been the \u201cIrish Community Center,\u201d if it had not been for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ship-wrecks.net\/shipwreck\/projects\/elgin\/\">the <em>Lady Elgin<\/em> disaster in 1860<\/a>). The evening included the Justinian Society\u2019s honoring our colleague, Professor Daniel D. Blinka, with its annual \u201cJurist of the Year Award.\u201d The award was presented by Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge John J. DiMotto, with citations also presented by Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson and current Milwaukee County Circuit Court Chief Judge Jeffrey A. Kremers. One who does not know Prof. Blinka can get a sense, from <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/attachment.ashx.pdf\">this outline of Judge DiMotto\u2019s remarks<\/a>, of the remarkable way that Prof. Blinka devotes himself to teaching, scholarship, and service (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/attachment.ashx-1.pdf\">this article from a previous alumni magazine<\/a>). It was a privilege to be at the event, as well as to be Prof. Blinka\u2019s colleague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, together with a number of colleagues (including Professor Emeritus James D. Ghiardi and Professors Irene Calboli and Thomas J. Hammer), I attended the Justinian Society\u2019s annual Columbus Day dinner. 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