
You were a township trustee for 16 years. Why did you want to take on that role? The slate that I was on, the people that I ran with, did not think that all of the values of the community were represented by the trustees who were in office at the time. What was the…

Why did you want to be a lawyer? I wanted to help people. My grandfather was a union organizer, which inspired me to go into employment law specifically and represent employees. Also, as part of my law school studies at Chicago Kent College of Law, I took the legal clinic, which was an opportunity to…