Michele M. Jochner, judicial law clerk to Chief Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow of the Illinois Supreme Court, has been re-elected to the Board of Governors of the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) for a three-year term. The 25-member board directs the operations and activities of the 30,000-member organization.
Jochner, who was initially elected to the board in 2002, has been active in the ISBA since 1990 and an elected member of its Assembly since 2000. She is immediate past chair of the ISBA General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Section Council, and a member of the Mentoring Committee, the Judicial Evaluations Committee, and the Bench & Bar Section Council, where she serves as co-editor of the Bench & Bar newsletter. A seven-time recipient of the ISBA's Lincoln Award for Legal Writing, she is chair of the Planning Committee for the first annual ISBA Solo and Small Firm Conference slated for the fall of this year.
Jochner, who has been an adjunct professor at The John Marshall Law School and DePaul University College of Law, is a frequent lecturer throughout the state and has authored nearly 60 articles on a wide array of legal topics. In 2004, she was among "Forty Attorneys Under 40 To Watch" named by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
She is a 1990 graduate of DePaul University College of Law, where she received her J.D. with honors and was admitted to the Order of the Coif. In 1992, she received a Master of Laws degree from DePaul. |
