The Department of Politics and Government is honoring two outstanding graduates on Alumni Day during Homecoming weekend. Marc Loro ’74 and Senator Laura Murphy ’81 will be guests of honor at the University’s alumni recognition event. Dean Heather Dillaway will also host an event honoring all the Alumni Day honorees from the College of Art and Sciences.
Marco Loro
After graduating from ISU in 1974, Marc went to Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and graduated in 1977. He began working in the Office of the State’s Attorney of McLean County for several years before moving to the Office of the Secretary of State’s Department of Administrative Hearings in Springfield until 2018. Here he began as a staff attorney, was promoted to senior legal advisor, and retired as deputy director.
Marc is a charter member of the ISU Attorney Advisory Board and served as chair from 2011-2013. He’s also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, having served on the Committee on Government Lawyers. He is currently a member of the ISBA Administrative Law Section Council, McLean and Sangamon County Bar Association, as well as a charter member of the Illinois Government Bar Association. Several of these boards he held the position of chair at various times.
Laura Murphy
Laura has spent the last 20 years as an active member of the Des Plaines community, including eight years as an alderman for the city’s third Ward. She was appointed to the Illinois State Senate in 2015 to represent the 28th Senate District.
In 2020, she was appointed Deputy Majority Leader of the Senate. Laura also serves as chair of the Committee on Executive Appointments, as vice chair of the Committee on Local Government, and as a member of the Committees on Assignments, Commerce, Environment and Conservation, Executive, Financial Institutions, Higher Education, and Labor.
