RockeNews--November 2011

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Centennial Honors College

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago VP Named WIU Arts & Sciences Distinguished Alumna Nancy Paridy, J.D., LL.M., senior vice president, general counsel and government affairs/corporate secretary of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), has been named the College of Arts and Sciences 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient at her undergraduate alma mater, Western Illinois University–Macomb.

Paridy was a history major and a member of Western's Centennial Honors College, graduating, in three years, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and with honors in 1980. She completed legal training at Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1983 at the age of 22, and was admitted to practice law in Illinois that same year. Paridy began her legal career at Ungaretti and Harris LLP, where she worked on the controversial case of Green v. Cook County Hospital. From 1985–1995, Paridy worked for Dykema, Gossett PLLC.