Thelma Brook Simon, '40, 1916-2015

Family, colleagues and friends of former Wilmette Trustee Thelma Brook Simon remembered her this week as a brilliant and passionate woman who was dedicated to the legal profession, civic activism in Wilmette and her family.

Simon, who served on the Village Board during a tumultuous time in the 1960s and helped end the caucus system and begin the current era of municipal term limits, died Feb. 7 at the age of 98.

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Thelma Brook Simon was born in Chicago in 1916 and graduated from Senn High School before graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University of Illinois. She later graduated from the University of Chicago law school in 1940, and was one of only two women in her class, her son said.