Dorothy A. Brown (born September 4, 1953) is an American politician and lawyer. Brown currently serves as the Cook County Court Clerk in Illinois's First Judicial District.
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Early life, family, and education
Brown grew up in Minden, Louisiana, one in eight children. His father worked in the laundry room at the Louisiana Army Ammunitions Plant near Minden. He also has a cotton field in Athens, Louisiana, where Brown and his seven brothers helped him take and cut the cotton. Mrs. Brown works as a cook and domestic worker.
At Webster College, Brown is the captain of the girl's university basketball team, and graduated in the top ten percent of her class. Brown entered college in 1971 at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He graduated Magna cum Laude from Southern University in 1975. In 1977, Brown received his license as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). In 1981, he received his Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) with honors from DePaul University in Chicago. In 1996, Brown received his law degree with honors from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
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Professional career
Brown works for Arthur Andersen and Commonwealth Edison as certified public accountants. He also helped start a minority public accounting firm. From 1991 to 2000, Brown was hired as General Auditor for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA).
Brown unsuccessfully ran for the Chicago City Treasurer in 1999, Chicago Mayor in 2007 and President of the Cook District Board of Commissioners in 2010.
Clerk Circuit Court of Cook County (2000-present)
Brown was elected as the Cook County District Court Administrator, Illinois, in 2000, and has been re-elected to three additional terms in the office with an incredible amount of votes. As the official guardian of recorders for all judicial matters brought to one of the world's largest integrated court systems, Brown is responsible for managing an annual operating budget of over $ 100 million and has a workforce of more than 1,800 employees. The Clerk office is described as "the 2,300-employee office, one of Illinois's last political fortresses" by the Chicago Sun-Times in 2014.
The main projects and services developed under Brown's leadership include: e-filing, Court Mobile application clerks: "Court Clerk Mobile Connect," Online Traffic Ticketing System, Electronic Ticket System (eTicket), Surplus Search Mortgage , SmartForms (Online Order of Protection service), Intelligent Kiosk (court information terminal), and IDMS (Document Management System Imaging). All of these "Green Court"/E-Court initiatives improve accuracy, save time for court users, cut costs for the court system, and save energy.
Brown receives cash prizes on his birthday and Christmas from his employees, a practice that some former employees describe as an unwritten requirement of their work. Brown then announces that he will no longer receive the prize after a question arises about how he claims the item on his tax return.
In January 2010, Inspector General Cook County investigated Brown's "Jeans Day" program, where Clerk office employees could donate cash for Jeans Day funds and wear casual clothes to work on Friday. Dana Jeans Day, which grows to more than $ 300,000, should be used to finance employee morale and charitable activities. The Inspector General's report documents expenditures unrelated to charitable activities, including the Chicago Bulls and Six Flags Great America tickets and reimbursement of employee parking fees. The Inspector General's report clears Brown's offense office, but advises Brown to provide better control. Brown stopped Jeans Day in August 2010.
In May 2006, Brown led a host-raising host committee in Chicago to support the re-election of Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans, Louisiana. Help organize the event is the information technology contractor Mark St. Pierre, who has worked contracts for both the city of New Orleans and the Cook County government, and is a significant political donor to Brown and Nagin. The incident was particularly prominent in Nagin's indictment on corruption charges on January 18, 2013. Brown is not prosecuted.
A contributor to Brown's political campaign gave commercial property at the intersection of Pulaski, Ogden and Cermak Avenues on the southwest side of Chicago to Brown's husband in June 2011. Two months later, the deed was transferred to The Sankofa Group, LLC, Brown and her husband, a nonprofit consulting firm, and in November 2011 The Sankofa Group sold the property for $ 100,000. The land deal is being investigated by Inspector General Cook County and by a grand jury organized by the prosecutor with the state prosecutor's office Cook County.
In 2012, during Brown's third re-election campaign, the Chicago Tribune's editorial board refused to support any candidate, citing "Brown's years of unsuccessful guarantees for modernizing outdated offices, paper-choking him head."
In August 2015, the Cook County Democrats slating committee narrowly voted to favor Brown for re-election to fifth term in the March 2016 primary elections. In early October 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant at Brown's home and seized the issued cell phone County. Chicago lawyer Ed Genson represents Brown. On October 23, 2015, the Cook District Democrats withdrew his support for Brown, and supported Michelle A. Harris. In November 2015, an employee of Clerk's office was indicted on federal charges stating that he lied to a federal jury after he was rehired by Clerk's office weeks after lending $ 15,000 to a company controlled by Brown's husband; the employee pleaded not guilty. Brown has not been sued and denies any wrongdoing.
Both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune refused to support Brown or his opponents in the 2016 campaign.
Publications
- Brown, Dorothy (January 3, 2015). "One Year of Achievement Going into the New Year from More Innovation in the Clerk's Office". Chicago Defender . Retrieved January 20, 2015 .
- Brown, Dorothy (November 19, 2014). "eTickets eliminates some of the frustration of getting a traffic ticket". Chicago Defender . Retrieved January 20, 2015 .
References
External links
- The Cook County Court Clerk
- Illinois Circuit Court Officer from District & amp; Circuit
- News and investigations Dorothy Brown by the Better Government Association, Illinois watchdog group
- The Dorothy Brown Archive at Chicago Reader
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