Professional Experience:

• Current: Full time Private Mediation Practice
• Circuit Judge, Fourth Judicial Circuit. Primary assignment to preside over civil and criminal trial docket (August 1992-January 2010)
• General civil practice with law firms in Belleville and Carlyle, Illinois (May 1974-August 1992)
• States Attorney Clinton County ,Illinois (December 1976-December 1980)
• Assistant Circuit Attorney, St. Louis, Missouri (September 1972-May 1974)

Mediation Training:

• Lane and Calkins Masters Series, 2009
• National Judicial College, 2006

Professional Activities:

• Topic Editor for Illinois Judicial Bench Book on Civil Law and Procedure (2008-2009)
• Faculty member for New Judges Seminar (2005-2009)
• Faculty member for Education Conference for Illinois Judges (2004)
• Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases (2005-2010)
• Supreme Court Planning and Oversight Committee for a Judicial Performance Evaluation Program (2002-2010)
• Mentor with the New Judges Mentoring Program
• Illinois Judges Association:  Member, Board of Directors (2005-2010)
• Illinois State Bar Association:  Speaker at numerous ISBA seminars
  Member, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section Council

Bar Admissions:

• Supreme Court of Illinois 1972
• Supreme Court of Missouri  1972
• Federal District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Education:

• St. Louis University School of Law, J.D. 1972
• St. Joseph’s College, B.S. in Accounting (Cum Laude) 1969