James D. Montgomery - Board Member Employer Cochran, Cherry, Givens, Smith & Montgomery, L.L.C (2000 - Present) Professional Memberships & Activities Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago (appointed 1983) Current Illinois Supreme Court Chairman of the Capital Litigation Trial Bar Panel American Board of Trial Advocates Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Chicago Bar Association Illinois State Bar Association Former President of the Cook County Bar Association The Civil Justice Expense and Delay Advisory Group for the United States District Court (Northern District of Illinois) Judicial Evaluation Committee (State & Federal Courts) Awards & Honors Chicago's 30 Toughest Lawyers (Chicago Magazine) Academy of Lawyers Laureate Inductee International Academy of Trial Lawyers Fellow Law Instructor National College of Criminal Defense Lawyer Instructor Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts Workshop Instructor University of Chicago School of Law, Intensive Trial Practice Workshop Trial Advocacy Instructor – DePaul University School of Law Education University of Illinois, Political Science, B.A. University of Illinois School of Law, Juris Doctorate Other Admitted to practice before: The United States Supreme Court The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Seventh Circuit Courts and the United States District Court for the State of Illinois Northern District