Commissioners

The Professionalism Commission consists of a Chair, law school faculty, judges, lawyers, and non-lawyers appointed to volunteer service by the Court. Commissioners serve terms of three years.

The Commissioners are:

• Gordon B. Nash, Jr., Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Chair
• John E. Corkery, John Marshall Law School
• Hon. Kathryn E. Creswell, 18th Judicial Circuit Court
• C. Kristina Gunsalus, University of Illinois College of Law
• Patrick M. Kinnally, Kinnally, Flaherty, Krentz, & Loran PC
• Hon. Michael P. McCuskey, U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
• Jane DiRenzo Pigott, R3Group LLC
  
• Vanessa Romeo, Joliet Junior College
• Gwendolyn Y. Rowan, Cook County Bar Association
• Hon. Stephen L. Spomer, Appellate Court for the 5th District
• Lawrence M. Templer, Jolivette & Templer PC
• Hon. Richard L. Tognarelli, 3rd Judicial Circuit Court
• Vincent F. Vitullo, DePaul University College of Law
• Hon. Debra B. Walker, Circuit Court of Cook County
• Edward J. Walsh, Walsh, Knippen, Knight & Pollock, Chtd.
• Sonni C. Williams, City of Peoria
• Jerome Larkin, Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, ex officio

The Supreme Court Liaison to Commission:

• Justice Robert R. Thomas