Co-Chairs

• Justice Gino DiVito
• Governor James R. Thompson

Commissioners

• State's Attorney Anita Alvarez
• Judge Paul P. Biebel, Jr.
• State's Attorney Joseph E. Birkett
• Edwin A. Burnette
• Justice Thomas E. Callum
• Vincent Cornelius
• Senate President John J. Cullerton
• Senator Kirk Dillard
• Representative Jim Durkin
• Justice Rodolfo Garcia
• State's Attorney Robert Haida
• Attorney General Lisa Madigan
• Terri L. Mascherin
• Michael Metnick
• The Hon. Robert S. Molaro
• Appellate Defender Michael J. Pelletier
• Stephen Pugh
• Ted Street
• Judge Michael P. Toomin
• Donald R. Zoufal

Director

• Peter G. Baroni

Special Advisor

• John F. Decker

Mr. Pugh began his career serving as law clerk to the Honorable James B. Parsons, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1973-1974), and served as a Special Trial Attorney for the United States Department of Justice (1974-1977). He was associated with the law firm of Chapman and Cutler from 1978 to 1983 and served as partner from 1983 through 1991.

Since the founding of Pugh, Jones & Johnson, he has practiced real estate litigation, directors and officers liability cases, general and complex corporate litigation as well as representing local government entities. Mr. Pugh has lectured and participated as a panel member in many professional organizations. He has authored several articles and has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Francis J. Rooney/St. Thomas Moore Award from Loyola University School of Law.

In 1973, Mr. Pugh received his J.D. from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.