Advisory Board

Kevin Durkin, Board President, Partner, Clifford Law Offices

Ruth Ann Schmitt, Board Vice President, Executive Director, Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois

Aurora N. Abella-Austriaco, Of Counsel, Peck Bloom Austriaco & Koenig

Cecilia Abundis, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Illinois Attorney General

Katie Aune, Director, Alumni Relations, DePaul University College of Law

Karina Ayala-Bermejo, Managing Deputy Commissioner, Department of Human Resources, City of Chicago

Michael G. Bergmann, Director, Pro Bono Initiative

Jack L. Block, Deputy Director for Special Projects, Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago

Noelle Brennan, Noelle Brennan & Associates

Julie Elena Brown, Senior Staff Counsel, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest

Edwin Burnette, Public Defender, Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender

Hon. Bernetta Bush

Karyn L. Bass Ehler, Associate, Hughes Socol Piers Resnick and Dym

Christopher W. Carmichael, Associate, Holland & Knight

Leonard L. Cavise, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Public Interest Law, DePaul University College of Law

Kevin Fortwendel, Assistant Dean of Alumni Relations and Development, DePaul University College of Law

Miriam Geraghty, Kinoy Taren & Geraghty

Barbara A. "Barb" Gimbel, Partner Holland & Knight

Jenny Grobelski, Student, DePaul University College of Law

Edward Grossman, Executive Director, Chicago Legal Clinic

Brian F. Havel, Associate Dean for Centers, Institutes, and Programs, DePaul University College of Law

Paula Kim, Associate, Katten Muchin Rosenman

Sarah La Voi, Corporate Counsel, Hyatt Corporation

Susan Lewers, Illinois Bar Foundation

Roslyn C. Lieb

Grace Lim, Pro Bono Coordinator, Legal Aid Bureau

Shaye Loughlin, Assistant Director, Center for Public Interest Law, DePaul University College of Law

Virginia Martinez, Legislative Staff Attorney, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Philip J. Mohr, Deputy Director, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services

Terry Norton

John Sciaccotta, Shareholder, Shefsky & Froelich

Sallie Smylie, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Edward ("Ted") Tuerk, Partner, McDermott Will and Emery

Katherine E. Walz, Senior Attorney, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Glen Weissenberger, Dean, DePaul University College of Law

Center for Public Interest Law