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Mary Broderick is President of the Board and the parent member representative on the Board of Directors. Ms. Broderick has a Bachelors of Science from the University of Illinois Chicago. Ms. Broderick is the mother of three children and is the Owner/CEO of a market research company.
Read more...Salvador Cicero served as Chief for Legal Affairs for the Consulate General of Mexico in Chicago from 1998 to 2001. In that position, he vigorously advocated the rights of Mexican nationals to consular notification under international law, in both criminal and juvenile court cases. It was in this capacity that he met and retained Ms. Redleaf on several high-profile cases, including in the In re: A.Z. and Z.Z. case.
Read more...Laurene M. Heybach is the Director of the Law Project of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. Among her many important cases, she began working in 1989 in partnership with the Family Defense Center's Executive Director in the pioneering litigation Norman v. McDonald, which established the rights of homeless and other impoverished families to housing and cash assistance in lieu of family separation by the child protection system. Her work has centered around establishing and enforcing legal rights to meet the needs of low-income children and, most particularly, homeless families.
Read more...Maurice Sykes is an assistant Cook County Public Defender working in the child protection division.
Read more...Briggitte Carlson, Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors, is an Associate at Reed Smith in the litigation department. At both Reed Smith and her previous firm, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Ms. Carlson assumed a leading role in In re: A.Z. and Z.Z., a six-year-long juvenile court battle in which she represented, in both the trial and appellate courts, a Mexican father deprived of custody of his children in violation of state, national, and international law.
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