“I think ultimately, pioneers are remembered for how they impacted the landscape, and much less for whether or not they were the first ones to arrive,” said Vincent F. Cornelius, who became the first African-American president of the Illinois State Bar Association in its nearly 140-year history when he was sworn into office Friday. “With that said … I think it is a tremendous opportunity for me to pave a new path.”The Joliet-based attorney, who took the reigns of the ISBA during the …