Qualifications

Current Position

• Will County Circuit Judge, February 10, 2025 to present

Relevant Past Employment Positions

• City of Lockport, City Attorney, Lockport, IL, June 17, 2017 to February 7, 2025
• City of Peoria, Peoria, IL, Deputy Corporation Counsel/Interim Corporation Counsel/Senior Staff Attorney/Assistant Corporation Counsel, Peoria, IL, 2000-2017
• Tazewell County Public Defender's Office, Assistant Public Defender-Juvenile Delinquency, Pekin, IL, 1999-2000
• Williams & Associates, Associate, East Peoria, IL, 1999

Current/Past Affiliations or Offices Held

• Past President of the Illinois State Bar Association (2024-2025)
• Past board member of the Illinois Bar Foundation
• Honorary board member of the Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago
• Honorary board member of the Korean-American Bar Association of Chicago
• Past board member of the Prairie State Legal Services
• Past board member of the Lockport Township High School Dist. 205 Foundation

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, November 1999
• U.S. Dist. Court, Central District of Illinois, 2002
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, 2007
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2013
• U.S. Dist. Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2018

Honors and Awards

• 2020 Northern Illinois University College of Law Alumna of the Year
• 2014-2015 ISBA Diversity Leadership Award
• 2010 ISBA Board of Governors Award
• 2008 Illinois Local Government Lawyers Association's Annual Achievement Award
• 2006 NIU College of Law Young Alumnus of the Year Award

Education

• Northern Illinois University College of Law, DeKalb, IL, May 1999, J.D.
• University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, May 1994, B.A. History