AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell; winner of the Jon Jost Award for pro bono services; achievement award for the most improved student [mandarin language award]; volunteer for the overnight Family Resource Center phone-line; Trial Advocacy teacher in University of Chicago’s Mandel Legal Clinic’s fall teaching program. Former Board member, forensic hotline co-chair, and long range planning committee for the NACDL; past president of IACDL; former member of the Board of Directors and current liaison for the indigent defense committee of CCL; member of the Principals Committee for the presiding Judge of the Criminal Division in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.