Adelor J. Petit was an American lawyer associated with Chicago throughout his professional life. He was the son and namesake of Adelor J. Petit, a Chicago lawyer and Cook County judge, although the two are distinguished in professional records by the younger man's use of the suffix Jr. Petit died in 1986 at the age of 87.
Petit studied law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and was identified with its class of 1922. His legal education was followed by a long Chicago practice that included private representation, appellate litigation, and work as counsel to business and civic organizations.
Petit practiced law in Chicago from at least the 1920s onward. By 1936 he was representing clients in federal appellate litigation, including the Seventh Circuit case Mallers v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. In 1960 he was identified as an attorney with Petit, Olin, Overmyer & Fazio. He later became a partner of Martin, Craig, Chester & Sonnenschein, a Chicago law firm, where he remained associated during the final period of his career. Petit also served as general counsel of the Western Golf Association and was repeatedly identified in that capacity during the early 1960s.
Petit was a member of Phi Delta Phi, the international legal fraternity associated with Chicago-Kent College of Law. He served as president of the fraternity's national organization from 1935 to 1937 and was later identified as a past president and member of its executive leadership.
Petit was the son and namesake of Adelor J. Petit, an earlier Chicago lawyer and Cook County judge. The younger Petit also maintained professional connections with Chicago legal organizations and with the Western Golf Association, for which he served as general counsel.
