Name: Keith Beyler
Place of Business: SIU School of Law
Business Address: Southern Illinois University,
Lesar Law Building,
Carbondale, IL 62901-6804
Business Phone: (618) 453-8716
E-mail: kbeyler@siu.edu
Current practice area: Teaching
Past practice/experience: Litigation
Year admitted to the bar: 1974, California
Other affiliations: ISBA, ABA, Illinois Supreme
Court Rules Committee
Name: Michael Hanagan
Business Address: 901 North Street Mt.
Vernon, IL 62864
Business Phone: (618) 244-0905
Current practice area: Plaintiffs' personal
injury
Past practice/experience: same as above
Year admitted to the bar: 1976
Other affiliations: Illinois Trial Lawyers
Association; Illinois Appellate Lawyers Association
Name: Patrick J. Hewson
Place of Business: Gilbert, Kimmel, Huffman,
Prosser & Hewson, Ltd.
Business Address: 102 Orchard
Drive Carbondale, IL 62901
Business Phone: (618) 457-3547
E-mail: pathewson@gkhplaw.com
Current practice area: Employment; labor; school;
real estate; banking; family; personal injury
Past practice/experience: Private practice
continuously since 1986 - General Civil; Past President,
Jackson County Bar Association
Firm/Agency website: www.gkhplaw.com
Year admitted to the bar: 1986
Other affiliations: Jackson County Bar
Association; ISBA; ABA; Association of Trial Lawyers of
America
Name: Thomas H. Jones
Place of Business: Jackson County
Courthouse
Business Address: P.O. Box 388 Murphysboro,
IL 62966
Business Phone: (618) 687-7330
Past practice/experience: General practice; City
Attorney 1975 to 1993; JAG, USAF 1970 to 1974
Firm/Agency website: None
Year admitted to the bar: 1970
Other affiliations: ISBA; Illinois Judges
Association
Name: Lloyd A. Karmeier
Place of Business: Nashville, IL
Business Address: Courthouse 101 East St.
Louis Street Nashville, IL 62263
Business Phone: (618) 327-4800, ext. 310
E-mail: lakarmeier@cbnstl.com
Current practice area: Circuit Judge, Washington
County, 20th Circuit
Past practice/experience: 18 years as a circuit
judge after 22 years of practice, including 4 years as State's
Attorney, Washington County
Year admitted to the bar: 1964
Year admitted to the Inn: 1996
Other affiliations: ISBA; Washington County Bar
Association; St. Clair County Bar Association; Illinois Judges
Association
Name: George M. Oros
Business Address: P.O. Box 278 Mounds, IL
62964
Business Phone: (618) 745-6563
Current practice area: Circuit Judge,
retired
Year admitted to the bar: 1965
Name: Don E. Prosser
Place of Business: Gilbert, Kimmel, Huffman,
Prosser & Hewson, Ltd.
Business Address: 102 Orchard
Drive Carbondale, IL 62901
Business Phone: (618) 457-3547
Current practice area: General practice including personal injury,
family; business and employment law
Past practice/experience: Trial and Appellate
practice. I have argued before the 7th Circuit of Appeals and
the 5th District Appellate Court.
Firm/Agency website: www.gkhplaw.com
Year admitted to the bar: 1975
Other affiliations: ISBA
Name: R.J. Robertson, Jr.
Place of Business: SIU School of Law
Business Address: Mailcode 6804 Southern
Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901-6804
Business Phone: (618) 453-8715
E-mail: rjrobert@siu.edu
Current practice area: Contracts; Commercial Law;
Transactional Skills (teaching areas)
Past practice/experience: Staff Law Clerk, U.S.
Ct. of Appeals - Eighth Circuit (1976-79); Associate, Thompson
& Mitchell (now Thompson Coburn), St. Louis, MO (1979-82,
1985-86)
Firm/Agency website: www.law.siu.edu
Year admitted to the bar: 1976 (Missouri)
Year admitted to the Inn: 2000
Other affiliations: American Law Institute,
Missouri Bar Association; ABA
Name: Suzanne J. Schmitz
Place of Business: SIU School of Law
Business Address: 114 Lesar Law
Building Carbondale, IL 62901-6821
Business Phone: (618) 453-3257
E-mail: sschmitz@siu.edu
Current practice area: Teaching; ADR;
mediation
Past practice/experience: Insurance defense;
former Assistant Attorney General of Illinois
Firm/Agency website: www.law.siu.edu
Year admitted to the bar: 1981
Year admitted to the Inn: 2001
Other affiliations: ISBA; ABA; AALS; several
mediation organizations
Name: Robert P. Schulhof
Place of Business: Carbondale
Business Address: 1317 W Main St Carbondale,
IL 62901
Business Phone: (618) 549-3369
E-mail: sealegal@aol.com
Current practice area: Civil
Year admitted to the bar: 1969
Year admitted to the Inn: Founding member
Name: David W. Watt, Jr.
Place of Business: retired
E-mail: dwatt@intrnet.net
Past practice/experience: Circuit Judge,
Associate Judge; Private Practice (1970-1982);
Jackson County Assistant State's Attorney (1968-1970)
Year admitted to the bar: 1968
Year admitted to the Inn: Founding member
Other affiliations: ISBA; IJA
Name: Michael L. Wepsiec
Place of Business: Jackson County State's
Attorney Office
Business Address: Jackson County
Courthouse Murphysboro, IL 62966
Business Phone: (618) 687-7200
E-mail: mlwepsiecjd@yahoo.com
Current practice area: Criminal prosecution,
local government
Past practice/experience: Law clerk - federal
courts (N.D. Ill.) 1982-85; Assistant State's Attorney Jackson
County 1985-1990; Carbondale City Attorney 1990-1993.
Year admitted to the bar: 1981
Year admitted to the Inn: 1997
Other affiliations: ISBA
Name: Barbara L. Woodcock
Business Address: 905 N Court St Marion, IL
62959
Business Phone: (618) 997-6266
E-mail: blwjd@yahoo.com
Current practice area: Domestic; family; custody;
child support; adoption; juvenile
Past practice/experience: Creditor/debtor; real
estate; probate
Year admitted to the bar: 1984
Other affiliations: ISBA; ABA; Williamson County
Bar Association