| Graduation Year | Class of 1973 |
| Date of Passing | (unknown) |
| About | Born in 1955, Foster graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in urban studies and a master’s degree in city planning. In Springfield, Illinois, he worked for the state Budget Bureau and Transportation Department before coming to Chicago in 1984 to enter law school. After graduating first in his 1987 class at Northwestern University School of Law, Foster became a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Milton I. Shadur in Chicago. Later, he was a litigation associate at the Chicago firms of Jenner & Block and Schiff Hardin & Waite. During his clerkship, he also volunteered as an attorney at Howard Brown Memorial Clinic (now Howard Brown Health Center). Foster died of AIDS complications in 1991. He left a bequest for use by Lambda Legal to establish a Chicago office, which was opened in 1993 as the group’s second office outside New York. excerpt from http://www.glhalloffame.org/index.pl?item=175&todo=view_item |
