Gary Common Council member leads in Lake County clerk nomination
Five individuals were on the ballot for Lake County clerk.
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Five individuals were on the ballot for Lake County clerk.
The 80-year-old former judge and incumbent clerk hasn’t been seen publicly since he suffered multiple skull fractures in a Jan. 15 fall at his Crown Point apartment.
"This is a beautiful portrait, and representative of black womanhood and leadership," Godwin said. Artist Renee Ricks-Miller, of Chesterton, commissioned the piece, he said. Freeman-Wilson, born and raised in Gary, obtained a law degree from Harvard University in 1985, and returned home to become city judge in 1994. In 2000, Gov. Frank OâBannon appointed Freeman-Wilson as Indiana attorney general. She won the mayor's seat in 2011, after then-mayor Rudy Clay announced he was ending his reelection campaign and threw support behind Freeman-Wilson to be his successor. Since her loss to P...