Ann C. Petersen
Of Counsel

Practice Areas: Alternative Dispute Resolution; Corporate Law; Employment; Government.

Admitted: 1976, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar; U.S. Supreme Court; Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

Law School: University of Michigan, J.D., cum laude, 1976

College: University of Iowa, B.A., with highest distinction/with honors in Political Science, 1973

Member: Illinois State and American (Member, Standing Committees on: World Order Under Law, 1995-1997; Law and National Security, 1997-; Advisory Committee) Bar Associations.

Biography: Phi Beta Kappa. Recipient, Distinguished Young Alumna Award. Former Partner, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago. Appointed in 1989, with Senate confirmation, to General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force by President George H.W. Bush. As chief legal officer for the Department, she provided legal services and legal positions binding to the Department in areas of acquisition, civilian and military personnel, standards of conduct, financial management, fiscal law, installations and environment, military and national security affairs, and international activities. Private practice in Chicago in 1993. Adjunct Faculty Member, DePaul University College of Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Mediation, and Negotiation, 1987, 1994-. Board of Trustees Member, The Aerospace Corporation, a California corporation that operates a Federally Funded Research and Development Center for the United States Air Force and assists the United States government in the conception, design, acquisition and operation of its national security space systems. Board of Directors of the Board of Pensions for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Past Chair, Board of Visitors of Air University. Board of Directors of Business Executives for National Security (BENS).

Born: Muscatine, Iowa, December 25, 1950

ISLN: 904476086