Board of Directors

HOLLY SNOW

Co-Chair

Paul Hastings LLP
71 S Wacker Drive, Ste 4500
Chicago, IL 60606

Holly Snow is a partner at Paul Hastings LLP specializing in corporate debt and project finance. Holly was on the Ambassadors Board at Legal Aid Chicago since 2010 until she joined the Governing Board in 2015.
“Legal aid is important because, without it, thousands of people would have no place to go when they are wrongfully turned away from their homes, terminated by an employer or denied healthcare benefits.”

VIRXHINI GJONZENELI

Co-Chair

Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
200 E Randolph Drive, Chicago, IL 60601

Virxhini Gjonzeneli is a Senior Vice President and Group Head, Strategic Initiatives, at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, one of 11 Federal Home Loan Banks chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1932 to promote homeownership. She joined the Legal Aid Chicago Board in 2019. She is involved with Legal Aid Chicago because she believes that everybody should be able to get justice and representation.

JARED HECK

Vice-Chair

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
525 W Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60661

Jared Heck is a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, focusing on health care fraud litigation. He was a PILI Fellow at Legal Aid Chicago in 2006, a YPB/Ambassadors Board Member from 2009-2016, and has been a volunteer at the Katten de Diego Clinic since 2013. “Since serving as a PILI Fellow in 2006, I have been devoted to this organization and its mission. I’m thrilled to be a Board member so that I can expand my role within the organization and help it serve even more members of the community.”

VERONICA GONZALEZ

Treasurer

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle Street, Ste 900
Chicago, IL 60603

Veronica Gonzalez is a former client of Legal Aid Chicago. She is a domestic violence survivor and Legal Aid Chicago secured for her a two-year order of protection which allowed her and her children to start a new chapter in life. “Legal Aid Chicago gave me the push I needed,” Veronica says. “It was the push that I needed to continue with my life instead of being in the shadows of fear.” She is interested in serving on the board so she can help others, like Legal Aid Chicago helped her.

MARILYN D. ROSS

Secretary

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle Street, Ste 900
Chicago, IL 60603

Marilyn D. Ross, who is active with the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, specializing in children and childcare, has been a member of the Legal Aid Chicago Board since 1999. She is involved with Legal Aid Chicago because it makes a difference in the lives of so many people of all walks of life. If it was not for Legal Aid Chicago, most of these people would not be able to get back on their feet and become productive members of the communities in which they live.

Uma Amuluru

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company
100 North Riverside
Chicago, IL 60606

Uma Amuluru is chief compliance officer and vice president, Global Compliance, for The Boeing Company, and a member of its Executive Council. She is a former federal prosecutor and White House attorney. She has been a member of the Board since 2019. She supports Legal Aid Chicago because she believes it is important to have a place to turn to for help when the fundamentals of one’s life--such as one’s home, food, safety, and education--are threatened. Some of our most vulnerable neighbors, children, and families face heartbreaking challenges to those fundamentals, and they cannot fight back without the help of a good advocate.

Bobbi Anderson

Vantage Group Holdings Ltd.

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle Street, Ste 900
Chicago, IL 60603

Bobbi Anderson is the General Counsel of Vantage Group Holdings Ltd. Formerly she was the Principal, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Elementum Advisors, LLC, an investment advisor focused on managing investment portfolios exposed to natural catastrophe risk with principal offices in Chicago and Bermuda. She joined the Legal Aid Chicago Board in 2018. She is involved with Legal Aid Chicago because she believes providing individuals living in poverty with access to quality, free legal services improve the lives of Legal Aid Chicago’s clients and their families at a time when they are particularly vulnerable.

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Chicago, IL 60603

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Michael Andolina

White & Case

Michael Andolina focuses his practice on working with clients to manage crises and defend and resolve complex multiparty and multi-jurisdictional matters. He handles a diverse range of litigation matters in state and federal courts across the country, with an emphasis on resolving large scale litigation in multiple forums.

Mike has extensive experience advising clients in connection with mass tort and other crisis management situations, including coordinating and conducting investigations, engaging with regulators and law enforcement, developing litigation strategy, and defending clients through all stages of litigation.

In June 2019, Mike was named by Crain's Chicago Business as a Notable Gen X Leader in Law. He was also recognized in February 2018 with the International Law Office's "2018 Client Choice Award," which honors partners and law firms worldwide that provide "excellent client care" and are nominated only by corporate counsel.

Previously, Mike served as the deputy head of litigation at a large firm in Chicago, where he practiced for more than 20 years.

Nader Boulos

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Kirkland & Ellis LLP
300 North LaSalle
Chicago, IL 60654

Nader Boulos is a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice on the preparation and trial of complex commercial cases involving a wide range of substantive issues, including insurance coverage, commercial litigation, environmental torts, and product liability. Nader has been a Board member since 2017. He is involved with the Board because “Legal Aid Chicago’s work addresses fundamental problems of structural injustice and inequality in a way that isn’t just “big-picture,” but concretely and immediately improves the lives of individual community members.”

Amanda Brown

Skadden

Amanda Brown represents a wide range of clients in federal and state court civil litigation, including securities, shareholder derivative, antitrust and breach of contract actions.

Ms. Brown has done a substantial amount of pro bono work. In 2017, she was appointed Special Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney and participated in the successful defense at trial of four correctional officers accused of civil rights violations. She also represented a pretrial detainee in the successful resolution of an action brought against a local jail for unlawful solitary confinement.

Ms. Brown serves as a mentor in the firm’s mentorship program for junior associates and is active in the firm’s summer program for prospective associates as well as other recruiting initiatives. Ms. Brown is a member of the firm’s Black Lawyers for Diversity Affinity Network.

Kevin Brown

Association House of Chicago

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle Street, Ste 900
Chicago, IL 60603

Kevin Brown, who is active with Association House, has been a member of the Legal Aid Chicago Board since 2010. He is involved with Legal Aid Chicago because “Legal Aid Chicago helped me to get my family back.”

Joanne Caceres

Dentons

Dentons
233 S Wacker Dr #5900
Chicago, IL 60606

Joanne, a member of the Dentons cannabis sector group, has deep experience in the cannabis, hemp, and emerging psychedelics industries, and is one of the nation’s most experienced cannabis law lawyers. Joanne has particular skill in helping clients to navigate business objectives within these complex and rapidly evolving regulatory environments.

Through her pro bono work, Joanne has helped social equity applicants with transactional work, has helped to file cannabis expungement paperwork for previously incarcerated individuals, and has advocated for federal pardons for simple possession.

Daniel Campbell

McDermott Will & Emery

McDermott Will & Emery
444 W Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60606

Daniel Campbell is a Partner at McDermott Will & Emery who focuses his practice on a variety of commercial litigation matters, including collective and class actions, trade secret misappropriation actions, products liability actions and actions under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Michelle Carr

Baker McKenzie

Baker McKenzie
300 East Randolph Street, Suite 5000
Chicago, Illinois 60601

Michelle Carr is a partner in the Corporate & Securities Practice Group of Baker McKenzie's Chicago office.

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Ted Chung

Jones Day

Jones Day
77 W. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601

Ted Chung is a partner at Jones Day who just joined Legal Aid Chicago’s Board in 2019. He has worked with other legal aid organizations in Chicago and has been curious about Legal Aid Chicago for a while. He said that when he recently learned more about Legal Aid Chicago, its mission, and the vision for its future from John Gallo, Legal Aid Chicago’s CEO/ED, and Nader Boulos, Legal Aid Chicago’s Vice Chair, he “jumped at the chance to come onboard and be a part of this great legal institution.”

Greg Deis

Mayer Brown

Mayer Brown LLP
71 South Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606

Greg Deis is a partner at Mayer Brown LLP and a member of its Litigation and White Collar Defense & Compliance practices. He has been a board member at Legal Aid Chicago since January 2020. Greg joined the board of Legal Aid Chicago because of the critical role it plays in our legal system, providing essential legal services to those living in poverty.

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Chicago, IL 60603

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Brian C. Haussmann

Tabet DiVito & Rothstein LLC

Tabet DiVito & Rothstein LLC
209 S. LaSalle St., 7th Floor, Chicago, IL 60604

Brian Haussman is a partner at Tabet DiVito & Rothstein LLC, a local commercial litigation boutique. Brian’s practice is diverse, but he has extensive experience in business dissolution cases and complex ownership disputes involving private and closely held companies. Brian was a member of Legal Aid Chicago’s Ambassadors Board from 2012 to 2018 and served as its Co-Chair in 2017 and 2018. Brian joined the governing board in 2019. He proudly supports Legal Aid Chicago because he recognizes that access to the justice system saves lives.

Ryan S. Hedges

Vedder Price

Vedder Price
222 North LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois 60601

Ryan S. Hedges is a Litigation Shareholder and a member of the firm’s Chambers USA–ranked Government Investigations & White Collar Defense group, focusing on white collar criminal defense, internal investigations and complex civil litigation matters.

Mr. Hedges demonstrates a commitment to pro bono service by representing low-income individuals in federal criminal defense matters and by devoting time to other criminal justice reform matters.

Barry Horwitz

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Greenberg Traurig, LLP
77 W Wacker Drive, Ste 3100, Chicago, IL 60601

Barry Horwitz is a Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, focusing his practice on intellectual property matters, primarily patent, trademark and copyright disputes and counseling. He has been a member of the Board since 2020, and served on Legal Aid Chicago’s Ambassadors Board since 2014, including as Co-Chair of the Ambassadors Board in 2018-2019. He has long supported Legal Aid Chicago because he believes that access to justice and having one’s rights vindicated should not depend on the size of a bank account.

Monique Howery

Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP

Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP
70 W Madison St Suite 2900, Chicago, IL 60602

With a perspective on risk management informed by deep experience in the insurance industry, Monique Howery counsels clients facing complex commercial litigation, offering strategic guidance to advance their long-term business goals while protecting their legal interests.
Monique is a passionate advocate for furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession and is an active mentor to law students and early-career attorneys.

Katherine C. Jahnke Dale

DLA Piper LLP (US)

DLA Piper LLP
444 West Lake Street, Suite 900
Chicago, Illinois 60606

Katie Jahnke Dale is a partner at DLA Piper who joined Legal Aid Chicago's Board in 2021 and was a part of the Ambassadors Board since 2012. According to her, she is excited to be on the board so that she can support the important and top-notch legal work of the organization's tireless advocates for those who would otherwise go underrepresented in some of the most critical and pivotal moments in their lives.

Julia Johnson

Legal Aid Chicago Community

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle Street, Ste 900
Chicago, IL 60603

Julia Johnson, a resident of the Kenwood neighborhood and a former Legal Aid Chicago client, has been a member of Legal Aid Chicago’s Board since 2016.

Jaime Jones

Sidley Austin LLP

Sidley Austin, LLP
1 S. Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60603

Jaime Jones is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP. Jaime is the global co-leader of the firm’s Healthcare practice. She represents leading pharmaceutical and device manufacturers and institutional providers in healthcare fraud and abuse and food and drug enforcement and litigation matters. Jaime has defended numerous civil, criminal, and administrative enforcement actions involving allegations of healthcare fraud and abuse and off-label promotion and other violations of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Tim Kincaid

Winston & Strawn LLP

Winston & Strawn LLP
35 W. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601

Tim Kincaid is a partner at Winston & Strawn LLP, focusing on M&A and private equity transaction. Brian joined the board because “too many people suffer the loss of basic rights and needs because of their lack of knowledge and experience with respect to significant parts of our local, state and federal governments. The work that Legal Aid Chicago performs fights to close that knowledge gap by providing much needed legal resources to those without access. That work is extremely compelling to me, and I am happy to be involved in an organization that takes on the mantle of providing access, resources and knowledge.”

Robert Kriss

Retired- Mayer Brown

Robert Kriss is a former partner at Mayer Brown LLP and served as Co-Chair of Legal Aid Chicago's Board of Directors during 2022 and 2023.

Over his forty-three-year career, he handled international arbitrations involving real estate developments; class actions concerning Internet services, data security and securities fraud; software and outsourcing disputes; and a great variety of other types of commercial litigation. In his current term, Bob has been on the Board since 2015. Bob also served on the Board years ago under Sheldon Roodman. He is committed to Legal Aid Chicago because “the organization helps people change their lives by solving legal problems that stand in their way. We all need a helping hand at some point in our lives. Legal Aid Chicago’s work is transformative.”

Aisha P. Lavinier

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Kirkland & Ellis LLP
300 North LaSalle
Chicago, IL 60654

Aisha P. Lavinier is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Aisha advises private equity sponsors and public and private companies on complex business transactions, including structuring and negotiating strategic mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts, equity and debt financings, recapitalizations and restructurings, executive compensation and incentive equity arrangements, as well as other general corporate matters.

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Chicago, IL 60603

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Kevin Lorick

Legal Aid Chicago Community

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle Street, Ste 900
Chicago, IL 60603

Kevin Lorick, a U.S. Army veteran, single father, and former Legal Aid Chicago Client, has been a member of the Legal Aid Chicago Board since 2014. He is grateful to be involved with Legal Aid Chicago because Legal Aid Chicago is able “to help people in less fortunate situations obtain great and sometimes life-changing legal assistance.”

Thomas Marrinson

Reed Smith LLP

Reed Smith LLP
10 S. Wacker Dr., 40th Fl., Chicago, IL 60606

Thomas Marrinson is a partner in the Chicago office of Reed Smith LLP, where he represents policyholders in complex insurance coverage litigation and counsels clients on a host of insurance-related, risk transfer and risk management issues, including policy procurement, program structure, alternative risk transfer mechanisms, and corporate transactions. He has been a member of the Legal Aid Chicago Board since 2017 and strongly supports Legal Aid Chicago because “Legal Aid Chicago changes people’s lives by giving them access to the judicial system and a chance at a fair hearing in court, often when they are at their most vulnerable. I’m honored to be part of an organization that has made equal access to justice a reality for so many people.”

Catherine Masters

ArentFox Schiff

ArentFox Schiff
233 S Wacker Drive, #7100
Chicago, IL 60606

For almost 40 years, Catherine Masters has briefed and argued the most complex litigation issues at the trial and appellate levels in state and federal courts. She has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Law School since 2011, teaching the “Litigation Laboratory” course. She has been a member of the Board since 2014. She has long supported Legal Aid Chicago because “everyone deserves access to justice -- especially those with limited financial means, whose legal problems have magnified importance. Legal Aid Chicago provides efficient, effective, and essential services.”

Daniel McElroy

Bartlit Beck LLP

Bartlit Beck LLP
54 W Hubbard Street, #300
Chicago, IL 60654

Dan McElroy is a partner and trial attorney who represents clients from around the country in all manner of high-stakes, complex litigation. His diverse practice has included matters involving class actions, mass torts, intellectual property, EEO complaints, consumer fraud, contractual disputes, and both challenges to and the defense of federal agency action.

Tracy McLellan

Legal Aid Chicago Community

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle Street, Ste 900
Chicago, IL 60603

Tracy McLellan is a native of the Chicago area and currently resides in Logan Square. He spent 20 years traveling and working around the country before returning to the Chicago area about 15 years ago. He is politically active, particularly focused on peace movements. He has attended and been a member of Unitarian Universalist churches both in Louisville, Kentucky and in Chicago.

Alina Dominque McNeal

Legal Aid Chicago Community

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle St Ste 900, Chicago, IL 60603

Alina Dominque McNeal, who is active with SHARP, has been a member of Legal Aid Chicago’s Board since 2005 and was board treasurer in 2018. She is involved with Legal Aid Chicago to “fight for the rights of people with disabilities.”

Anne W. Mitchell

Whitt Sturtevant LLP

Whitt Sturtevant LLP
180 N. LaSalle St., Suite 2020
Chicago, Illinois 60601

Anne Mitchell is a partner at Whitt Sturtevant specializing in utility regulation and business litigation. She served on the Legal Aid Chicago Ambassadors Board from 2009-2018 and joined the Legal Aid Chicago Board in 2019. She is involved with Legal Aid Chicago because of the essential role the Legal Aid Chicago team plays in the legal community and more broadly in the city by providing excellent representation and support to those in need.

Elaina Mohead

Legal Aid Chicago Community

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S. Lasalle Street, Ste 900
Chicago, IL 60603

Elaina is a proud member of The Sisterhood, a non-profit organization helping women who have lost a child to gun violence. Working in the community has allowed Elaina an opportunity to connect with residents stricken with poverty. She provides education and an empathetic ear to help better their lives and relieve some of their stressors.

Chris O'Hara

Legal Aid Chicago Community

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle Street, Ste 900
Chicago, IL 60603

Chris O’Hara, who is active in housing advocacy on the north side of Chicago, through Center for Housing for Health, One Northside, and other organizations, has been on Legal Aid Chicago’s Board since 2015. He is involved with Legal Aid Chicago “because it gives a voice to an unheard part of the population, to a population that often has no voice. I’m glad to be part of an organization that is able to give a forum to the concerns of everybody in our society.”

Alyx Pattison

Burford Capital

Burford Capital
353 N Clark Street, Suite 2700
Chicago, IL 60654

Alyx Pattison is a Vice President at Burford Capital, the largest provider of legal finance in the market. There, she has responsibility for originating new business with law firms and companies in the United States. Alyx also has an extensive background in both law and politics, including more than a decade as a litigator at AmLaw 100 law firms. She joined the Legal Aid Chicago Board to play a small role in supporting the top-notch lawyers who spend every day fighting to secure basic rights and dignity for people living in poverty.

Jan M. Peters

Legal Aid Chicago Community

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle Street, Ste 900
Chicago, IL 60603

Jan M. Peters, who is active in the West Austin Community, has been a member of the Legal Aid Chicago Board since 2006. She is involved with Legal Aid Chicago because “I am grateful that Legal Aid Chicago has committed to providing legal assistance to clients who can’t otherwise afford good legal help. Legal Aid Chicago cares about what happens to its clients.”

Megan Poetzel

Jenner & Block

Jenner & Block
353 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60654-3456

Megan is a partner at Jenner & Block and is a member of the Firm’s Complex Commercial Litigation and Class Action Practice Groups. She joined Legal Aid Chicago’s Board in 2017.

Avis Reynolds

Heartland Hospice

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle St Ste 900, Chicago, IL 60603

Avis Reynolds is a hospice nurse at Heartland Hospice - ManorCare. At Heartland, we provide comfort, care, and end of life support to patients with advanced illness in a dignified manner in their homes. She joined the Legal Aid Chicago Board in 2018. She joined Legal Aid Chicago to assist in educating low income and minorities families about Legal Aid Chicago and the legal system that can assist them in their time of need.

Terra Reynolds

Latham & Watkins LLP

Latham & Watkins LLP
330 North Wabash Avenue, Suite 2800
Chicago, IL 60611

Terra Reynolds, Global Vice Chair of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry Group and Co-Chair of the Chicago Litigation & Trial Department, represents clients in internal and government investigations and complex litigation matters.

Shamika Robinson

Legal Aid Chicago Community

Shamika is a Math Interventionist at a K-8 Private School affiliated with Chicago Public Schools. She works with families and children teaching parents how to advocate for their kids and regain their power in systems working against them.

Shamika has served on panels with Legal Aid Chicago's Family Preservation staff.

Patrick A. Salvi II

Salvi, Schostok, & Pritchard P.C.

Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.
22 W. Washington, Suite 1600, Chicago, IL 60602

Patrick Salvi, whose work at Salvi, Schostok, & Pritchard P.C. is in representing victims catastrophically injured or the families of loved ones lost as a result of the misconduct of others, has been on the Legal Aid Chicago Board since 2018. “I support Legal Aid Chicago with time and engagement because working towards a legal system that provides equal justice under the law for everyone requires those with the ability and opportunity to help to do so. I humbly have been given the opportunity to devote time and effort towards Legal Aid Chicago, perhaps one of the most critical vessels in fighting for equal justice for all, and so it is my honor and my duty to serve on the board.”

Alice Scott

Legal Aid Chicago Community

Legal Aid Chicago
120 S LaSalle St Ste 900, Chicago, IL 60603

Alice Scott is a former client of Legal Aid Chicago and has volunteered as part of our Advanced Directives Project. She has a background in psychology and has worked as a substance abuse counselor for the State of Illinois and for the National Able Network. She also serves her community through her church. Ms. Scott is interested to serve on the board because Legal Aid Chicago provides “professional services in a client-centered, client-friendly environment, has a genuine commitment to underserved populations, and they were able to help me when I had no place to turn.”

Nancy A. Temple

Katten & Temple LLP

Katten & Temple, LLP
209 S. LaSalle Street, Suite 950
Chicago, IL 60604

Nancy Temple is a partner with Katten & Temple, LLP, a boutique law firm in Chicago and primarily practices commercial litigation. Her current community involvement is with Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. She joined Legal Aid Chicago’s Board in 2019. She is interested in Legal Aid Chicago because of its mission for equal justice and because it is very successful in representing individuals in and making a difference in improving the quality of those clients’ lives.

Annie S. Terry

Madison Dearborn Partners

Madison Dearborn Partners
70 W Madison Street, #4600
Chicago, IL 60602

Prior to joining Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP), Annie Terry served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of an MDP portfolio company, and previous to that, she was an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Annie has broad experience in complex corporate transactions, including public and private mergers and acquisitions; registered public offerings of common stock, securities and corporate governance counseling (including SEC reporting); registered investment advising; and private equity fund matters. Annie is responsible for handling legal and compliance issues relating to MDP’s funds and limited partners, potential investments, portfolio companies and corporate counsel matters.

LeDeidre Turner

ComEd

Assistant General Counsel

LeDeidre Turner joined the Legal Aid Chicago Board in 2018. She is involved with Legal Aid Chicago because she strongly believes in the organization’s mission to work together to provide high quality civil legal services to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups and she wants to assist them in accomplishing this goal.

Ami N. Wynne

Morgan Lewis

Morgan Lewis
10 North Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606-1511

Ami N. Wynne’s is a partner whose practice focuses on a wide range of employment matters, from litigation, to internal investigations and strategic employment counseling, to executive compensation and corporate transactions work. She regularly defends employers in employment discrimination, contract disputes, and employment-related cases in state and federal courts.