Chicago attorney Jeffrey J. Kroll has been elected to the DePaul University Board of Trustees. A graduate of DePaul's College of Law, he is an adjunct professor of trial advocacy and medical malpractice law.

A partner in the Clifford Law Offices, Kroll has served on DePaul's development committee and the Special Gifts Task Force.

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Chicago attorney William R. Coulson, a Glenview resident, was appointed April 1 to the 13-person Regional Transportation Authority Board of Governors by its suburban members. He serves on the Planning and Mobility Limited Committees.

A former assistant U.S. attorney and partner in Gold & Coulson, he is a past president of the Chicago chapter of the Federal Bar Association.

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Jill L. Murch, a partner in Foley & Lardner, Chicago, was elected April 1 to a one-year term as chair of the Chicago Network of the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation.

During her tenure the organization will hold a benefit high tea on Friday, Dec. 14, at the Four Seasons Hotel, to support women's charities.

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Cook County Judge Alexander P. White was inducted into the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers on March 2 during a joint meeting of the Labor and Employment Law and Tort Trial and Insurance Practices Sections of the American Bar Association.

A member of the ISBA Assembly, White is an associate newsletter editor on the State and Local Taxation Section Council and a member of the Committee on Military Affairs.

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Karen H. Flax of Chicago, senior counsel in the Publishing Law Department of the Tribune Co., has been appointed to the board of directors of the Illinois Press Association.

A former partner in Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal and law clerk for Judge Hubert L. Will of U.S. District Court, Flax joined the Tribune legal staff in 2000.