03JUDGE. You're covering Illinois news for The Associated Press (AP) news service in Washington. Write a new lead for this White House news release for an *Illinois* audience. Work in single space to see more of your work on screen.
Prepare the two "5 W's" outlines after the release. One features the president making an announcement and one focuses on an *Illinois* person being nominated. (The nomination will need to approved by the Senate before an appointment can be made.)
Which matters more to your *Illinois* reader? Pick that outline and write a single-sentence S-V-O lead, about 20 words, about two lines working in *12-point* type. [Change to 12 points if necessary.] What happens to the info on the Colorado judge? Show your work below the news release. You may cut and paste from the news release to your work.
THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary
PRESIDENT NAMES TWO FEDERAL JUDGES
President Clinton today nominated two individuals to serve as federal judges: Carlos F. Lucero for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and Wenona Y. Whitfield for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
Carlos F. Lucero, 54, is a partner in the Alamosa, Colorado law firm of Lucero, Lester & Sigmond, where he has a civil litigation practice.
A prominent member of the Colorado legal community, Lucero was President of the Colorado Bar Association from 1977 to 1978 and President of the Colorado Bar Foundation from 1987 to 1989. In addition, Lucero is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the International Society of Barristers, and the American Bar Foundation. Since 1968, he has also served as an adjunct professor of legal studies at Adams State College. Lucero was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990.
Lucero received a B.A. degree from Adams State College and a J.D. degree from George Washington University. During law school, Lucero served as a staff assistant to U.S. Senator John Carroll. After graduation, he served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge William Doyle and then moved to Alamosa, where he has practiced law since 1965.
Lucero and his wife, Dorothy, have one grown child and reside in Alamosa. Upon confirmation, Lucero would become one of twelve judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which hears cases from Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming.
Wenona Y. Whitfield, 46, has served since 1981 on the faculty of the Southern Illinois University School of Law as an Associate Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Law. Prior to joining the faculty, she was litigation counsel for the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, practiced with a Chicago law firm, and worked as an attorney for the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Company of Chicago.
Ms. Whitfield currently serves as Secretary and General Legal Counsel to the Carbondale Habitat for Humanity. She received a B.A. degree from Illinois Wesleyan University and a J.D. degree from Southern Illinois University. Ms. Whitfield resides in Carbondale, Illinois.
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03judge
[INSERT DATE HERE]
[YOUR NAME GOES HERE]
I. WHO? President Clinton
II. WHAT?
III. WHERE?
IV. WHEN?
V. WHY?
VI. HOW?
I. WHO? Wenona Y. Whitfield, a Southern Illinois University law
professor,
II. WHAT? was
III. WHERE?
IV. WHEN?
V. WHY?
VI. HOW?
[1. Put a tab here] WASHINGTON (AP) -- [X]
[2. Keep the CITY, the news service {The
Associated Press (AP)} and the dash with spaces.]
[3. Pick one outline, the one with local interest. Block and copy that
outline at the [X] above.]
[4. Remove the Roman numerals, the 5 W's and the line breaks.]
[5. Remove all bracketed instructions.]
Now check your lead paragraph for clarity. Is it just one sentence? Did you spell out SIU in full on its first use? Next, add a three-line second paragraph starting with the word "Whitfield." Mention a few important things about her. Then add sort-of-centered ### endmarks [see the sample at the end of this exercise]. To make a clean copy, delete all the material above the row of asterisks, and then the asterisks too.
To make this story appear as it would in a newspaper, first *save* as 03judge, then block the *single-spaced* text, and change the type font to Times New Roman 9 point. Block the text, click on "format" and "paragraph" to change the justification to "full" (both left and right). Block the text, click on "file" and "page setup" to change the left and right margins both to 3 inches. If this lead paragraph is too long (more that eight lines), shorten the sentence. Delete these two last paragraphs, and delete any excess material above the storyname and date. *Save* this version for yourself (click on "save as" and add N for newspaper version, saving as 03judgeN).
Print and submit
in the newspaper column format. After seeing comments, "save as"
03judgeN2. Revise and resumbit.