City of Philadelphia - File #: 150754

• File #: 150754
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 10/8/2015
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 10/8/2015
• Title: Honoring and congratulating the Honorable Judge Marjorie Rendell for her contributions to the City of Philadelphia as a Judge, a First Lady, and an advocate for civics education.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Bass, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Henon, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Oh, Council President Clarke, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember Reynolds Brown

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/8/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar	Pass
10/8/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED

Title
Honoring and congratulating the Honorable Judge Marjorie Rendell for her contributions to the City of Philadelphia as a Judge, a First Lady, and an advocate for civics education.

Body
WHEREAS, The Honorable Judge Marjorie Rendell has been an active figure in the City of Philadelphia since she began a career at Duane Morris & Heckscher in 1974 that lasted for 20 years; and

WHEREAS, The Honorable Judge Rendell founded and chaired the Avenue of the Arts, Inc. in 1993 to help the City of Philadelphia revitalize Broad Street; and

WHEREAS, The Honorable Judge Rendell has taken an active role in encouraging civic education among school students since she established the Penn Coalition of Representative Democracy, or PennCORD, in 2004, while still First Lady of Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, Since the Honorable Judge Rendell's establishment of PennCORD in 2004 and the subsequent creation of the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement in 2014, Judge Rendell has been working to reinvigorate civic education and civic engagement among the youth of Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, The Honorable Judge Rendell's Center for Civics and Civic Engagement fosters active civic learning among the youth of Pennsylvania through the incorporation of civic knowledge, public action and democratic deliberation; and

WHEREAS, The Rendell Center is now even more effective in partnership with the Annenberg Public Policy Center, which has partnered with middle and high school students, in encouraging civic engagement in students K-12 in the Philadelphia School District; and

WHEREAS, The Honorable Judge Rendell has moved to "senior status" in the Third District Court of Appeals, where she has held a seat since 1997, in order to spend more time focused on the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement; and

WHEREAS, The Rendell Center coordinates such civic engagement events as a the Citizenship Challenge where fourth and fifth grade students are asked to respond t...