- Current Assignment: Civil Division
- Appointed as Associate Judge: March 01, 2007
- Reappointed Associate Judge: 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
- Up for Reappointment as Associate Judge: July 1, 2023
- Undergraduate: Western Michigan University, 1982
- Law School: Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1985
- Career Highlights: Chief Public Defender of Lake County:(1997 - 2007), Assistant Public Defender (1985 - 1997); Former President of Illinois Public Defender's Association; Member of Capital Litigation Trial Bar
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