John Levi is a partner in Sidley's Chicago office. He was appointed by President Obama to the 11-member Board of the Legal Services Corporation and was confirmed by the Senate and elected as Chairman of the Legal Services Board of Directors on April 7, 2010. Mr. Levi was elected in 2013 as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was honored as the first recipient of the “Abner and Zoe Mikva Corporate Citizenship” award given by Mikva Challenge in 2011. He is a recipient of the Harvard Law School Society of Illinois’ 2010 Role Model Award, the 2004 Abraham Lincoln Marovitz “Lend A Hand” volunteer award and was given an Honorary Diploma by the Francis W. Parker School in 2003, and in 2014 was elected as a Life Trustee, and Parker also honored Mr. Levi by using his name in the title for its Chief Advancement Officer. Mr. Levi was the recipient of the University of Rochester’s 2014 College of Arts and Sciences “Distinguished Alumnus Award.” In 2015, he was again honored by the Harvard Law School Society of Illinois as it gave him the Society’s highest honor, the Jerold S. Solovy Award “in recognition of commitment to public service and the highest ideals of the profession.” Mr. Levi was honored by the Shriver National Center on Poverty Law’s 2016 Sargent Shriver Award for Equal Justice. In October 2016, he was elected to the American Law Institute. Mr. Levi received the Section of Litigation’s John Minor Wisdom Award in May 2019 and received the Legal Aid Chicago 2019 Champion for Justice Award in June 2019. Mr. Levi is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law. Additionally, he is recognized in the 2015–2019 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in Labor Law Management.'

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