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PERSONAL
- Age 47
- Family: married 22 years; wife Melissa is
the elementary
band director for Mattoon public schools; son Tyler, 18; daughter
Audra, 14
- 42-year resident of Coles County
EDUCATION
- 1982 graduate, University of
Illinois College of Law, Champaign, IL
- 1979 graduate, Millikin University,
Decatur, IL (Summa Cum Laude, James Millikin Scholar, Phi Kappa Phi
academic honor society)
- 1975 graduate, Mattoon High School
(valedictorian)
EXPERIENCE
- Private practice in Mattoon,
1983-1992, with Heller, Holmes and Associates
- Law Clerk for Hon. Kenneth Meyers,
U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District
of Illinois, 1982-1983
- Business Law Instructor, Lake Land
College, 1989-1992
- Coles County State's Attorney,
1992-Present
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Completed Advanced Trial Advocacy
program for career prosecutors by Illinois Appellate Prosecutors
Office
- Appointed to State Forensic Sciences
Crime Laboratory Advisory Board, 1999-present
- Coles County Drug Court Steering
Committee
- Children's Advocacy
Center of East Central Illinois, Charter Board Member, 2000-present
- Elected by fellow attorneys to
Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) Assembly, 1996-2001
- ISBA Juvenile Justice Section,
Council Member, 1996-1999
- ISBA Correctional Facilities and
Services Committee, 1996-1999
- Illinois State's Attorneys
Association
- National District Attorneys
Association
- Association of Government Attorneys
in Capital Litigation
- Prosecutors Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Illinois Appellate Lawyers
Association
- American Bar Association
- Admitted to State of Illinois
Capital Litigation Trial Bar, 2002
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