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When it comes to serving his fellow man, Jim Ryan is no stranger. For the last seven years, he has been shaping a new generation of leaders and responsible citizens as a Distinguished Fellow at Benedictine University in Lisle. While teaching students politics and government, Jim set up the university’s Center of Civic Leadership and Public Service.

Prior to that, Jim Ryan was a popular and innovative two-term Attorney General in Illinois from 1995-2002. He was a strong advocate for battered women, abused children and crime victims. He was credited with a thorough professionalization of the office, which he undertook by immediately closing a dozen offices filled with political patronage hires and replaced them with crime fighting prosecutors. After only one term, the state Capitol based State Journal-Register described him as already one of the finest Attorneys General in state history. In winning a sweeping re-election in 1998 and when running for Governor in 2002, near