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KEITH E. FRUEHLING, Champaign-Urbana. Incumbent. Partner, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Urbana. The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, J.D., 1993. Admitted: State courts of Illinois (1993), United States District Court, Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. ISBA: Board of Governors (2002-present); 2002 "Young Lawyer of the Year" Award; Scope and Correlation Committee (2004-present); Image and Advertising Special Committee (2004-present); Assembly (2002-present); Standing Committee on Budget and Audit (2003-2004); Unauthorized Practice of Law Task Force (2000-present); chair, Special Committee on Electronic Research (2002-2003); Committee on Bar Leadership Conference (2001-2002); Employee Benefits Sectionboard liaison (2002-present); Health Care Law Sectionboard liaison (2002-present); Illinois Bar Journal Editorial Boardboard liaison (2002-present). ABA: House of Delegates (June, 2000-present), (re-elected second term, 2002-2004), Litigation Section (1997-present), Tort and Insurance Practice Section (1997-present), Young Lawyers Section (1997-present), member (1999-present). Federal Bar Association; Bar Association of the Central and Southern Illinois District Courts; member (2002-present). CCBA: President (2001-2002); vice president (2000-2001); Board of Governors (1998-2002); member (1997-present). CBA: member, January 1991-November 1993 (Student Division); member, November 1993-August 1995 (Young Lawyers Division/Group). IDC: Trial Academy (co-chair) (2004-present), Trial Academy Committee (2003-present), member (2003-present). Presentations: 2003 Formal Admissions Ceremony for New Lawyer Admittees, Springfield, IL; Successfully Navigating Civil Litigation: Update and Overview of Civil Practice and ProcedurePractical and Legal Considerations (Friday, December 12, 2003, University of Illinois College of Law).

UNCONTESTED

Board of Governors Under 37Cook

CELIA G. GAMRATH, Chicago. Partner of Schiller, DuCanto and Fleck. Appellate/litigation family law attorney. Former Illinois Appellate Court judicial law clerk. The John Marshall Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1994. Admitted: Illinois and U.S. District, 1994. ISBA activities since 1997: ISBA Assembly (Agenda and Program Committee); Young Lawyers Division; Unauthorized Practice of Law; Special Committee on Strategic Planning; Women and the Law (former chair); Bench and Bar; ISBA Mutual Insurance Company (board of directors); Illinois Bar Foundation (Fellow); and facilitator of Supreme Court Committee on Professionalism. Speaker and author on various legal topics, including: Practice Skills for New Lawyers, Electronic Surveillance, UCCJEA, Visitation Abuse, Stock Options at Divorce, Orders of Protection, Eavesdropping, Mandatory Arbitration. Recipient: Lincoln Legal Writing Award (placed five times), ISBA Young Lawyer of the Year, Chicago Law Bulletin's 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty To Watch, Chicago Magazine's Super Lawyers, Leading Lawyers Network of Top Family Lawyers, JCCIA Impresa Award, CBA Alta May Hulett Award. Other activities: Supreme Court Committee on Character and Fitness, Justinian Society (second v.p.), CBA Alliance for Women (former chair), Chicago Bar Foundation (board of directors), Women's Bar Association, ABA, Appellate Lawyers (former board of Directors), John Marshall Alumni (former president), Special Task Force on Women at SIU Law School. ISSUE STATEMENT: Demonstrates commitment to the ISBA, to the interests of young lawyers, and to the community at large. Strong leader with vision who is dedicated to serving the members of the ISBA. Knowledgeable about the issues we face as members of the Illinois Bar. Hard worker who will succeed in addressing those issues and helping to resolve them in a positive way.

CONTESTED

Board of Governors 1st Judicial District (Cook County)

4 to be elected

STEPHEN G. BAIME, Chicago. Principal of Law Offices of Baime and Baime. Law practice consists of representing injured persons in workers' compensation and personal injury claims. Past president of following associations: Decalogue Society of Lawyers, North Suburban Bar Association, and Phi Alpha Delta-Chicago Alumni Group Chapter. Also active member of Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association, and Chicago Bar Association. ISBA activities: Assembly member for over 20 years; past chairman and long time member of Workers' Compensation Section Council; present member of Tort Law Section Council; frequent moderator and speaker for relevant topics at CLE programs; judge for Lincoln Award competition. Received J.D. at University of Illinois College of Law in 1966. Filed and tried before a jury first Illinois claim for transmission of a sexual disease; frequent lecturer at Northwestern Memorial Hospital on the law of transmitting sexual diseases; member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Past chairman of CBA committees on Lawyer Referral and In-Court Screening. Taught paralegal courses at National College of Education. ISSUE STATEMENT: As a long time trial lawyer who appreciates the challenges attorneys who try cases face, and the challenges of persons who are the victims of wrong-doing in receiving fair trials and fair compensation, I promise to make my highest priority, if elected to the Board, that of guarding the rights of lawyers in litigation and their litigant clients, not only in injury matters, but also in family law, criminal, and other trial arenas.

PATRICE BALL-REED, Chicago. Ms. Ball-Reed has served as the deputy attorney general for child support since April, 2003. She formerly served as a deputy supervisor in the Real Estate Property Tax Unit and was a senior trial supervisor in the Child Support Enforcement Division of the Cook County State's Attorney Office during her 14 years as an assistant state's attorney. Prior to her government service, Ms. Ball-Reed was in private practice in Chicago. She is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and received her Juris Doctor from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. She has received a number of awards including the Board of Governors Award from the Illinois State Bar Association in 2000. Ms. Ball-Reed is involved in numerous community, civic and bar association activities, including the ISBA Assembly, WBAI board of directors, serving as vice president of Trinity College Scholarships for Illinois Residents, past president of BWLA, president of NWPC-GC, and served on the Hope House Advisory Board. She is also a wife, mother of three children, and grandmother of one.

THOMAS M. BATTISTA, Chicago. Concentrates in representation of clients before government agencies with Rock Fusco, LLC, in real estate taxation, licensing and regulatory matters. JD, Loyola Chicago School of Law, 1983. Admitted: Illinois Supreme Court, 1983; U.S. District Courts of Illinois and Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar, 1984; U.S. Supreme Court, 1994. Recently served as chair, Assembly Agenda and Program Committee, 2003-2004; elected to ISBA Assembly, Cook County, 1998-2004; member, Administrative Law Section Council, 1996-present. Past Chair, 2003-2004. Chaired its subcommittees of Strategic Planning, Legislation and Membership. Member, State and Local Taxation Section Council, 1996-2003 and 2004-present. Served on its sub-committees of CLE, Unauthorized Practice of Law, and Membership. Speaker at numerous ISBA legal seminars covering property taxation, administrative law, adjudicative practice. Also, president of the Justinian Society of Lawyers and member of the Executive Committee since 1997. Member, Chicago Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Committee as investigator and panel member; member, Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association; Fellow, Illinois Bar Foundation. Prior to joining Rock Fusco, LLC, served as deputy director, Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board, 1996-2002; chief counsel to chairman, U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, 1989-1996; deputy director and chief of statewide prosecutions, Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, 1987-1989; and served seven years in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, representing government officials and agencies in a broad arena of federal and state civil litigation, 1981-1987. ISSUE STATEMENT: Most of my leadership roles with the ISBA have been dedicated to identifying ways to serve the membership with relevant and useful benefits, seminars, information, articles, technology, and other business tools. The ISBA should help improve the business environment for lawyers, continue focus on the unauthorized practice of law in Illinois by aggressively exposing and prosecuting the activity, and expand and improve continuing legal education by and for ISBA members.

MAURO GLORIOSO, Westchester. Incumbent. Board of Governors, First Judicial District (Cook County). Practice: State of Illinois-Property Tax Appeal Board-hearing officer. Previous: Private practice; arbitrator, Circuit Court of Cook County; college instructor. ISBA Activities: Board of Governors' liaison to Agricultural Law; Antitrust Law; Mental Health Law. Assembly member, 1998-present; two years, elected chair of the Assembly Agenda Committee 2000-2002; Future of the Courts Implementation, 2002-2004; Amicus Curiae policy, 2002; Judicial Evaluations Committee, 2000-2004; Real Estate Section Council, 2001-2005; Proposed establishment of ISBA Special Committee to Review Governor's Report on Capital Punishment (Special Assembly meeting, Old State Capitol, Springfield, March 2002). Illinois Bar Foundation Fellow. ISBA Mutual Policyholder. Other affiliations: Officer, Justinian Society of Lawyers, treasurer; Executive and Scholarship committees; American Bar Association; Chicago Bar Association; Cook County Bar Association; Women's Bar Association of Illinois; Hispanic Lawyers of Illinois; National Association of Administrative Law Judges; Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA); IRELA; Big Shoulders Fund (assists poverty-stricken inner city schools). Education: Saint Xavier College; John Marshall Law School. Resides in Westchesterwife Pearl; daughter Mary, 6; son Nicholas, 3. ISSUE STATEMENT: "I am a firm believer in the people"-Abe Lincoln. Mauro also believes in the peoplethe ISBA membership. As an incumbent on the Board, Mauro has established his leadership role working diligently for membership and would serve membership well for another term. He has worked hard to give back and to reach out to the membership. Previously, in two terms as chair of the Assembly Agenda Committee, Mauro developed Assembly meetings with relevant issue-oriented agendas, attending all Board of Governor's meetings. Those agendas included nationally-recognized speakers on the death penalty, prosecutorial misconduct, mandatory financial responsibility, and MCLE. Mauro believes the Board's role is service to membership; responsiveness to all members, keep ISBA relevant, diversify and increase membership, improve the public's perception of attorneys.

MICHELE M. JOCHNER, Chicago. Ms. Jochner is currently concluding a three-year term as a Board representative from Cook County-Under Age 37, and has been a member of the Board's Scope and Correlation Committee since 2003. Ms. Jochner serves as a judicial law clerk to Chief Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow of the Illinois Supreme Court. She joined the ISBA upon her admission to the bar in 1990, and is a record-holding seven-time recipient of the Association's Lincoln Award for Legal Writing. A Fellow of the Illinois Bar Foundation, she is the immediate past chair of the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section Council, and has chaired that section's CLE subcommittee since 1999. Ms. Jochner currently chairs the Special Committee on Planning the 2005 Solo and Small Firm Conference, and is a member of the Judicial Evaluations Committee, the Special Committee on Mentoring, and the Special Committee on Minority Outreach. She also serves as co-editor of the Bench & Bar Newsletter. Ms. Jochner is a 1987 graduate of Mundelein College, receiving her B.A. summa cum laude, and a 1990 graduate of DePaul University College of Law, where she received her J.D. with honors and was selected for the Order of the Coif. In 1992, Ms. Jochner also earned an L.LM from DePaul. She has served as adjunct professor at John Marshall Law School and DePaul, and authored over 50 articles appearing in publications nationwide, including the ISBA's Journal. ISSUE STATEMENT: Ms. Jochner has a proven 15-year track record of leadership, commitment and service to Illinois attorneys and the ISBA through volunteering to develop dozens of ISBA CLE programs, lecturing at seminars, and authoring practice-oriented articles, in addition to actively serving on the ISBA Board and numerous ISBA committees and projects. She is committed to using her experience and hard work to continue this service in the future.

JAMES J. MORICI, JR., Chicago. ISBA Assembly member. Founding partner, Morici, Figlioli & Associates. Plaintiff's personal injury and workers' compensation practice. ITLA member. Three terms in ISBA Assembly. Assistant Cook County state's attorney, 1980-1987. Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 1979; DePaul University, B.A., 1976. Past president of the Justinian Society of Lawyers. Past president of Italian American Political Coalition. Member of CBA, ABA, WBAI, ATLA. Has served on the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Legislative Committee and board of trustees of WILPOWER, the political action committee of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois. Member of the Standing Committee on Judicial Evaluations, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004. Mr. Morici has served the ISBA on the Tort Law Section Council and the Resolutions and Drafting Committee. He has spoken at multiple ISBA and CBA practice seminars. He was a speaker at the ISBA's Rule 213(f) & (g) Seminar, October, 2000. ISSUE STATEMENT: Mr. Morici is a strong supporter of victims' rights, the right to trial by jury in civil cases, and is a strong opponent of tort reform. He strongly supports the ISBA's position against the unauthorized practice of law and has spoken in support of measures undertaken by the ISBA to combat that practice. He strongly opposes limitations on class action lawsuits in the State of Illinois and successfully moved the ISBA Assembly to vote in opposition to recent Supreme Court rule changes regarding the certification of class actions. COMMITTEE: Mr. Morici's committee is in formation but includes Todd A. Smith, Kevin T. Conway, Michael P. Schostok, Patrick A. Salvi, Laird M. Ozmon, Fred Lane, J. Timothy Eaton, Joseph R. Curcio, Gino L. DiVito, Philip H. Corboy, Jr., Russell W. Hartigan, Joseph M. Gagliardo, John C. Sciaccotta, Joseph J. Miroballi, John L. Nisivaco, Jeffrey J. Krull, Susan J. Schwartz, Bruce Pfaff, and David Novoselsky.

JOHN KELLY NORRIS, Chicago. Partner in Rubin & Norris, LLC, Chicago, concentrating in real estate taxation assessment appeals. B.A. in Political Science, University of South Florida, 1980; J.D., IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1983. Admitted to practice in Illinois, 1983; in Florida, 1984; and the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Northern District, 1984. Appointed to the ISBA State and Local Taxation Section ("SALT") Council November, 1993; served on and chaired numerous SALT subcommittees, most notably the Legislative, the Unauthorized Practice of Law, and the Continuing Legal Education subcommittees. Previously served as secretary, vice chair, and chair of the SALT Section Council. John has written articles for Tax Trends. One article written was republished in the Journal of Property Tax Management, (Volume 10, Issue 1, Summer 1998; Aspen Publishers). Served as ISBA Assembly member, elected 2002; is a Silver Fellow of the Illinois Bar Foundation; a qualified Trained Intervenor in the Lawyers' Assistance Program, and an IRELA member. Norris lectures to various groups on the subject of tax assessment appeals (most recently on the 7% assessment cap), has appeared in public service videotapes for local cable stations, has been quoted by major Chicago newspapers on the subject, and has successfully fought against unfair tax legislation as a lobbyist. Participated in a two-day real estate tax seminar presented by the SALT Council, and in 2003 moderated a one-day version of the seminar. Norris is a former chair