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Rarely has Thomas M. Battista joined an organization — professional, social, or community — and did not become a leader in its governance. He has served as president of the Justinian Society of Lawyers and the Italian-American Political Coalition; board member and legal advisor to the Italian-American Human Relations Foundation; an elected delegate of the Assembly of the 32,000 member Illinois State Bar Association, its supreme governing body; chief counsel to the chairman of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board; and deputy director of the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board. Raised initially in Elmwood Park, Battista and his family then moved …