JOHN G. O'BRIEN, Arlington Heights. Law Offices of John G. O'Brien, Ltd. Mr. O'Brien's practice concentrates in real estate and estate planning. He is the founder and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association (IRELA). IRELA is the leading advocate for protecting the role of the attorney in the residential real estate process. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association Board of Governors and has served as vice chair of the ISBA Task Force on the Unauthorized Practice of Law. He was a member of the Special Committee on the Future of the Courts and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Bar Foundation and a member of the Special Committee on Strategic Planning of the ISBA. He has been elected to the Scope and Correlation Committee for each of the last four years and currently serves as the treasurer of the ISBA. Also, he was recently appointed to the Standing Committee on Lawyer's Title Guaranty Funds of the American Bar Association. Mr. O'Brien has lectured on real estate topics for the Illinois State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Illinois Institute for Continuing Education, and Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund (where he serves as a member of the board of directors) as well as numerous bar associations throughout the state. Mr. O'Brien was recently appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to serve on the Minimum Continuing Legal Education Board. He is the recipient of the Northwest Suburban Bar Association's President's Award for Distinguished Public Service. Mr. O'Brien earned a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1968, and a J.D. from Loyola University in 1972.

MARK E. WOJCIK, Chicago. Legal Experience: Professor, The John Marshall Law School (subjects include torts, lawyering skills, and international subjects). Also was an adjunct professor at DePaul and Loyola. Previous practice in customs and international trade; also clerked for the Nebraska Supreme Court and U.S. Court of International Trade. Author of Illinois Legal Research (Car--o---lina Press) and many other publications. ISBA Experience: Past chair of International and Immi-gration Law Section; Human Rights Section Council; Special GATS Committee; Standing Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity; Standing Committee on Legal Education, Admission, and Competence. Illinois Bar Foundation Fellow. Board of Governors Award. Other: Chicago Bar Association Board of Managers and chair of Military Law and Veterans Affairs and International committees. Past president, LAGBAC. Member of Advocates, Justinians, and many other groups. Leader in ABA International Law and Criminal Justice sections. Education: B.A. cum laude, Bradley University, Peoria; J.D. cum laude, The John Marshall Law School; LL.M., N.Y.U. School of Law. ISSUE STATEMENT: Because the ISBA is an im--portant organization, more than one person should want to become its president. Lawyers should want to undertake the serious responsibility of leading this association into the future. The ISBA is stronger when more than one person wants to be its leader. I am dedicated to the professional education of future lawyers, and to their meaningful involvement in the bar association. I also believe we all benefit from having a stronger voice in the legal education community. I am troubled when ISBA members do not renew their memberships; we must ensure that even our least active members find value, support, and opportunity. I also believe in diversity. Our professional ethics rules and a new state statute prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation; I am running to support our commitment to diversity and equal opportunity for everyone.

PATRICE BALL-REED, Chicago. Assembly incumbent (three terms); As-sembly, Finance Committee; Illinois Bar Journal Editorial Board member; Bar Publications Board, secretary; Wo-men and the Law, co-chair Outreach Subcommittee; Legislation Committee member; Bar Services Committee, past co-chair of Bar Leadership Conference, current member; Ad Hoc Committee to Review Judicial Evaluations, member; ISBA/CBA Task Force on Judicial Elections/Independence, member; Minority and Women Participation Committee, past chair; State and Local Taxation, former member; Family Law Section Council, former member; Future of the Profession Conference, delegate; ISBA Board of Governor's Award Recipient 2000. Published in the IICLE Illinois Civil Practice Manual, 1992, 1996, 1998 and 2000; Illinois Super Lawyer, 2005; Women's Bar Association of Illinois, treasurer; Cook County Bar Association, served as financial secretary; North Suburban Bar Association, board member. Member, Chicago Bar Association, Justinian Society of Lawyers, National Black Prosecutors Association, and Puerto Rican Bar Association. Character and Fitness Committee of the Illinois Supreme Court First District, commissioner; First Municipal Division Advisory Committee of the Circuit Court of Cook County; John Marshall Law School Alumni Association, first vice president; Deputy Attorney General for Child Support Enforcement, from 2003 to present; Cook County Assistant State's Attorney, from 1989 to 2003; private practice, from 1985 to 1989. Married mother of three and one grandchild.

MAURO GLORIOSO, Westchester. Board of Governors, First Judicial District (Cook County). Practice: State of Illinois-Property Tax Appeal Board hearing officer. Previ--ous: Private practice; arbitrator, Circuit Court of Cook County; college instructor. ISBA Activities: Member, Board of Governors, 2004-2005; 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-present; Real Estate Section Council, 2001-present. 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: Third vice-president, Justinian Society of Lawyers; American Bar Association; Chicago Bar Association; Women's Bar Association; Hispanic Lawyers; National Association of Administrative Law Judges; Association Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA); Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA); IRELA; Alumni Board Member, John Marshall Law School; Big Shoulders Fund--assists poverty-strick-en inner city schools. Education: Saint Xavier College (first in class); John Marshall Law School. Resides in Westchester, wife Pearl; daughter Mary, 7; son Nicholas, 4. ISSUE STATEMENT: “I am a firm believer in the people”--Abe Lincoln. Mauro also believes in the people--the ISBA membership. During his term on the Board, Mauro established his leadership role working diligently for membership. Mauro would serve membership well for another term. Mauro worked hard to give back and 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, MCLE. Mauro believes the Board's role is to serve membership; responsiveness to all members, keep ISBA relevant, diversify to increase membership, improve the public's perception of attorneys.

PAULA HUDSON HOLDERMAN, Chicago. Winston & Strawn LLP. ISBA: Assembly, lst District, 1994-2000, 2001-2007; chair, Budget and Finance, 2004-2006; chair, Reso-lutions and Drafting, 1997-2000; Assembly, 6th Circuit 1988-90; Strategic Planning Committee, 2005-06; Bench and Bar Section Council, 1990-96, chair, 1994-95; Standing Committee on Women and the Law, 1995-2001, 2005-06, chair, 1999-2000; Task Force on Unauthorized Practice of Law, 2000-2001; Judicial Evaluation Committee, 1999-2003; Conference to Study the Evolving Needs of the Membership, 1997-98; Criminal Justice Section Council, 1986-90; 2001-02; Supreme Court Committee on Professionalism Town Hall Meeting, facilitator, 2004; Special Committee on Future of the Courts, 2001-02. LAWPAC Board of Trustees, 1999-2005, chair, 2004-05. Illinois Bar Foundation: Board of Directors, 1998-present; secretary, 2002-present; Gala chair, 2003; Silver Fellow. Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee on Professional Responsibility, 1999-2006. ABA: Commission on Women in the Profession, liaison, 2000-2003; Criminal Justice Mock Trial Competition, 1993-98; Foundation Fellows, 2001-present. CBA: Board of Managers, 2001-03; Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-a-Hand Awards Luncheon chair, 2005; Judicial Evaluation Committee, 1997-99; Alliance for Women, 1996-present; Committee on the Future of the Profession, 1998-99. John Marshall Law School Alumni Association: President, 1994-95; Board of Directors, 1986-2000; Freedom Award chair, 1990-91, 93-94; Distinguished Service Award, 1997. National Conference of Women's Bar Associations Board of Directors, 1999-2003. Women's Bar Association of Illinois: Board of Directors, 1998-2000; Annual Dinner chair, 1997-98; Strategic Planning, 2001; Nominating Committee, 2001 and 2003. Admitted: Illinois Supreme Court 1979, Federal District Court Central District, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Federal District Court Northern District. Adjunct faculty in Trial Advocacy: University of Illinois College of Law, 1993-present; John Marshall Law School, 1990-2005; Chicago Kent College of Law, 1994-97; Emory University College of Law, Atlanta, 2003 – 2005; NITA faculty 1990-96. Cook County State's Attorney's Office, director of hiring, recruiting, and training, 1999-2002. Champaign County Bar Association, 1980-89; president, 1987-88.

LETITIA “TISH” SPUNAR-SHEATS, Chicago. Principal in the law firm of Sheats & Kellogg. Education: Lake Forest College and University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana; The John Marshall Law School. Admitted: Illinois Supreme Court (1972); U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1972); U.S. Supreme Court (1980); U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit (1983). Practice Areas: General civil litigation, family law, wills and estates, real estate. Certified arbitrator for the Circuit Court of Cook Country (16 years). University adjunct instructor in College of Management and Business (12 years). ISBA activities: Member of the ISBA since 1973; Assembly member; this year the Assembly elected Tish as the chair of the Agenda Committee. This committee reviews all board agendas for items to be put before the Assembly. Past chair of the Minority and Women Participation Committee; Bar Services and Activities Committee; Continuing Legal Education; Judicial Evaluation Team (investigator and evaluator); General Practice, newsletter editor (4 years). CBA activities: Member of the Practice Com-mittee on Immigration & Nationality Law, Matrimonial Law, Probate Practice; Member of the Service Committee on Continuing Legal Education, Law Office Technology, Solo/Small Firm Practitioners, Judicial Evaluation Committee as an investigator and evaluator. WBAI activities: Co-chair of the Lawyer Referral Committee, Judicial Reception, Golf Outing, Matrimonial Law, Membership. Other professional associations: Illinois Bar Foundation Fellow; past president of The John Marshall Alumni Association Board of Directors; Advocates Society; and Justinian Society of Lawyers. Speaker: Frequent speaker/lecture/moderator at CLE seminars and workshops and cable TV programs, sponsored by the ISBA.

RICHARD D. FELICE, Wheaton. Incumbent. Principal, Law Firm of Richard D. Felice, P. C.; private practice, Wheaton. Con-centrated in domestic relations and litigation practice; graduate of Loyola University, Chicago, with honors, 1976, and Northern Illinois University, 1979, J.D., with honors. Associations: Member of DuPage County Bar Association since 1979; member of Illinois State Bar Association. Chair of Admissions and Membership Committee from 1989 to 1992. Lectured for seminars for the following committees: Younger Members, Criminal Law, Legislative, Children's Rights, and an active participant in Family Law Committee. Chair of the fee arbitration panel for family law cases and participated in training new panelists for the fee arbitration panel. Court Annexed Mandatory Court Arbitration chair. Chair of Lawyer Referral, Mediation Committee, Long-Range Planning Committee, Human Resources Committee, and past liaison to Legal Aid Foundation. Joint Kane/DuPage County Matrimonial Seminar 2003. Instructor for Matrimonial Trial Advocacy, 2002 to 2003. Previously served as member, ISBA Task Force on Attorneys for Children. Previously served as delegate member, House of Representatives for American Bar Association. Past-president of DuPage County Chapter of Justinian Society. Served for five years as director and past-president, DuPage County Bar Association; past chairperson of Judiciary Committee. Past-president of the DuPage County Bar Foundation. Served as member of the Special Committee of the Future of the Courts Conference. Receipt of the Ralph A. Gabric Award for Professional Excellence in 2004. Assembly member of ISBA and elected chair, Agenda Committee of ISBA, 2002 to 2003. Elected to Board of Governors 2003 to 2006; liaison to Juvenile Law, Tax Law, Education Law, and Delivery of Legal Services. Appointed by United States Federal District Court to the Illinois Merit Selection Committee to select Federal Magistrate Judges for Northern District. Appointed by Illinois Supreme Court to the Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee, 2000 to 2006.

STEPHEN B. LEVY, Naperville. Steven B. Levy is the principal of Steven B. Levy, Ltd., Naperville. His practice is concentrated in representing plaintiffs in bodily injury and wrongful death claims. Steven B. Levy is a co-editor and a chapter author of the 2006 IICLE Handbook on Medical Malpractice and Medical Trial Evidence. Steven B. Levy was named “A Top Personal Injury Lawyer” and “A Top Medical Malpractice Lawyer” in the first annual Chicago Daily Law Bulletin peer survey. He has received this honor every year since. He has lectured for the American, Illinois State and DuPage County bar associations in the areas of tort (injury) law, insurance law, and civil practice and procedure. He has been invited to lecture at numerous Annual Meetings of the Illinois State Bar Association on “Hot Topics in Tort Law.” He has also been invited to lecture on medical malpractice, trucking regulations, uninsured/underinsured motorist law, and spoliation of evidence. His case, Boyd v. Travelers Insurance Co., 166 Ill.2d 188, 652 N.E. 2d 267 (1995), established a negligence cause of action in Illinois for spoliation (destruction) of evidence. He was a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee, 1998-2001, and was a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Professional Responsibility, 1996-1998. He is a member of the Illinois Bar Journal Editorial Board. On June 11, 1998, Steven B. Levy received the DuPage County Bar Association's Ralph A. Gabric Award “in recognition of his outstanding leadership, personality and professionalism.” On June 14, 1996, Steven B. Levy received the DuPage County Bar Association's 20th annual “Lawyer of the Year Award” in recognition and appreciation of his “distinguished leadership and meritorious services rendered.” He is a member and a past officer of the ISBA Committee on Continuing Legal Education.

KIM EDWARD PRESBREY, Aurora. Incumbent. Principal, Presbrey and Associates. Educational background: Northwestern University and Vanderbilt University College of Law, J.D., 1976. President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers, 2001-2002. Board of Managers, Illinois Trial Lawyers, 1992 to present. ISBA Board of Governors, 2003 to present. Co-chair of Illinois Trial Lawyers Legislative Committee, 2002 to present. Member of Executive Committee of Illinois Trial Lawyers, 1996 to present. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Illinois Trial Lawyers, 2001-2002. Member of Long-range Planning Committee of Illinois Trial Lawyers, 1998 to present. Member of Workers' Compensation Committee of Illinois Trial Lawyers, 1985 to present. Member of Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 1980 to present. Member of the President's Council of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 2000-2002. Secretary of Workers' Compensation Section Council of Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 2000-2001. Member of ABA. Member of the ISBA, 1977 to present. Member of the Workers' Compensation Section, 1990 to present. Co-editor of the ISBA Workers' Compensation Section newsletter, 1995 to 2001. Member of the ISBA “Future of the Courts” Committee, 2001-2002. Founder and president of Illinois Futures, a non-profit corporation established to provide college scholarship money to the children of injured workers in the State of Illinois, 1992-2005. Member of the Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association, 1979-2006. Sustaining member of the Workplace Injury Litigation Group; 2nd vice-president of WILG, 1999-2000. Author of “Temporary Total Disability Benefits” section of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Workers' Compensation Manual. Author of numerous articles and frequent lecturer for ISBA Workers' Compensation Section seminars over the last 25 years, as well as the Illinois Trial Lawyers, the Workplace Injury Litigation Group, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the Illinois Institute of Continuing Education.

ELIZABETH L. JENSEN, Peoria. Law clerk for Justice Daniel L. Schmidt of the Third District Appellate Court. Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, 1993. Admitted: Illinois Supreme Court, 1994; U.S. District Court for Northern and Central Illinois. ISBA: Member, 1993; Assembly, 2005-2008. Member: Committee on Women and the Law; Committee on Delivery of Legal Services; Committee on Government Lawyers; Local Government Law Section; Civil Practice and Procedure Section. Illinois Bar Foundation: Director, 2001-2008; chairperson: Scholarship Committee, 2004-2006. PCBA: Director, 1999-2003, 2005-2006. Chair: Membership and Memorials Committee. Vice Chair: Lincoln Day Banquet. Past Chair: Pro Bono Committee; Entertainment Committee; Young Lawyers Committee and Membership Committee. Abraham Lincoln Inn of American Inns of Court: Master Member. Campaign for Legal Services Leadership Committee for Prairie State Legal Services, 1999-2006; chair 2000-2001. Local Government Advisory Board to the Comptroller of Illinois, 1999-2000, 2002-2004. The Comptroller of Illinois' Merit Commission, 2000-2001. The Center for Prevention of Abuse: President, 2003-2005; director, 1999-2005; volunteer advocate for victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault since 1995. United Way Campaign Committee: Service Division chair, 2000, 2001. Moss Bradley Revolving Fund: Director since 1998. The City of Peoria's Neighborhood Development Commission, vice chair, 1997. The Peoria Art Guild: Director. Awards: Judi Lasco Outstanding Volunteer of the Year, Center for Prevention of Abuse, 2002; Outstanding Direct Service Volunteer of the Year, Center for Prevention of Abuse, 2001; Charles C. Schlink Good Government Award, Peoria Jaycees, 2000; 40 Leaders Under 40 Award, 1999. Beth is married to David L. Wentworth II, they are proud parents of William and Charlie Wentworth, ages 4 and 2.

CARL R. DRAPER, Springfield. Feldman, Wasser, Draper & Benson, Springfield. Bradley University, B.S., 1976; University of Illinois, 1981. Admitted: Illinois, 1981; U.S. Seventh Circuit, 1999; U.S. Third Circuit, 1999; U.S.D.C. Central District of Illinois, 1982; U.S.D.C. Southern District of Illinois, 1998. Practice areas: Civil trial practice including civil rights, administrative law, election law, family law and employment law. Assembly member, June, 2001 to present; Assembly Agenda and Program Committee, June, 2002-2004; Standing Committee on Strategic Marketing for Illinois Lawyers, co-chair, 2004 - present; Solo/Small Firm Conference Planning Committee and presenter, 2005; Planning Committee for ISBA Member Economic Survey, 2003-2004; Future of the Court Conference participant, 2003; Administrative Law Section Council, 2004-present; Committee on ARDC, June, 2002 to present; Delivery of Legal Services Committee, June, 2001-2003; Judicial Evaluations Outside Cook County Committee, 2001-present; Law Office Management and Economics (Standing Committe on) Council, 1994-present, chair, 2003-2004; Mineral Law Section Council, 1988-1989. Sangamon County Bar Association (Pro Bono Committee, 1994-97, chair 1995); Committee on Local Rules, for the United States District Court, Central District, 2005-present; member of Board of Directors for the Bar Association of the Central and Southern Federal Districts, 2005-present. Presentations: Billing Alternatives, Solo/Small Firm Conference, 2005; Hanging Out Your Shingle (Without Getting Hanged), two presentations, 2004; Technology and Law Seminars, three presentations in federal courts; Strategic Planning for Your Firm's Evolution, Transition, and Your Retirement Seminar, speaker, 2002; Policies Every Handbook Should Contain and Policies to Consider Seminar, speaker, 2001; Illinois Labor and Employment Law Seminar speaker, 1995. Author: “Filing System Basics for Solo and Small-Firm Lawyers,” February, 2006, Illinois Bar Journal.

DENNIS J. ORSEY, Granite City. Incumbent. Age 51, graduated from University of Illinois with a B.A. with high honors in 1976. He received his law degree from Southern Illinois University School of Law in 1979 where he received the John S. Rendleman Award as Outstanding Senior Law Student and served as Student Bar Association president. After graduating from law school, he spent five years in general private practice with an Alton law firm. From 1984-1995, he served as assistant Illinois attorney general and director of the Attorney General's Granite City Regional Office, which serviced an eight-county area. In 1995, he established his own general practice firm in Granite City. Mr. Orsey serves as deputy general counsel for the Illinois Public Pension Fund Association and was an assistant Madison County state's attorney from 1996-2000. Since 1990, he has served as a member of the adjunct faculty at Southwestern Illinois College teaching business law. He is past president of the Madison County (1992-93) and Tri-City bar associations (1987) and a member of the St. Clair County Bar Association. For 15 years he has served as a member of the ISBA Assembly and is a Silver Fellow, serving on the board of directors of the Illinois Bar Foundation. In 1993, he was selected to co-chair the ISBA Task Force for Disaster Relief and received the John C. McAndrews Pro Bono Service Award. From 1992-1998, he was a charter board member of the Illinois Pro Bono Center. In 1997, he received the ISBA Community Service Award. He is a member of the ISBA Strategic Planning Committee. He has coordinated the People's Law School Program in Madison County for numerous years. He resides in Glen Carbon with his wife, Catherine, and son, Matthew.

ANITA M. DECARLO, Chicago. Greenfield & DeCarlo, P.C., Chicago. Ms. DeCarlo's practice concentrates in workers' compensation law. She is a member of the Illinois State Bar As--sociation's Workers' Compensation Section Council and the ISBA Assembly. She is on the Executive committees of the Justinian Society of Lawyers as well as the John Marshall Alumni Association. In addition, she is a member of the Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association. Ms. DeCarlo has participated in seminars for the Illinois State Bar Association, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and Lorman Education Services. Also, she acts as an arbitrator for the Circuit Court of Cook County Mandatory Arbitration. A graduate of the John Marshall Law School and Loyola University-Chicago, Ms. DeCarlo also attended Marquette University, where she studied abroad at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain.