Marilyn Rozmarek Komosa, 65, a retired Cook County Circuit Court judge and the first woman of Polish descent elected to a judicial position in the county, served on the bench from 1964 to 1996. She had the longest tenure of any woman judge at the trial level in Cook County.
A resident of the Edgebrook neighborhood, she died Wednesday in Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge.
“I have learned to listen well to people, to make them feel comfortable when they stand before me,” she told the Tribune in 1983.
Judge Komosa, a graduate of Northwestern University where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, graduated cum laude from Loyola University Law School. She studied Spanish at the University of Mexico and Polish at Alliance College. She served in private practice and as a public defender before being appointed a magistrate and then elected a judge.
“My mother was a positive person who was low-keyed and private but also very upbeat,” her daughter Cathy said.
Other survivors include two sons, Edward and Charles; another daughter, Marilyn Rogalski; a sister; and a granddaughter.
Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Friday in the Casey-Laskowski & Sons Funeral Home, 4540-50 W. Diversey Ave.
Mass will be said at 9 a.m. Saturday in St. Hyacinth Catholic Church, 3636 W. Wolfram St.
