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Therese L. Hodges
Partner
Tel: (847) 670-9000
E-mail: thodges@hlerk.com
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THERESE L. HODGES has concentrated her practice for the past 30 years in school and public sector labor law. Her primary interests include board governance and policy, public employee personnel issues (including evaluation, supervision and dismissal), collective bargaining and contract implementation, and student rights.
Ms. Hodges is a frequent lecturer throughout Illinois on personnel and labor issues and has spoken nationally at conventions for school administrators and attorneys. She has co-authored publications for IASB (Superintendents' Multiyear Performance Contracts: A "How To" Guide) and for NSBA (Understanding and Limiting School Board Member Liability). She has also served as the President of the Illinois Council of School Attorneys and on a subcommittee of the Governor's Commission on Recodification of the School Code; she currently is serving on the DuPage ROE School Safety Task Force.
Ms. Hodges regularly teaches school law courses for the graduate schools of education at Loyola University and North Central College and has also taught for DePaul University. Currently, Ms. Hodges is an elected member of the Board of Education of Gower School District No. 62, DuPage County, serving as its Board President.
Ms. Hodges graduated magna cum laude from MacMurray College and received her law degree from the University of Illinois, where she served as an editor of the Law Forum. She received a Master of Arts in Education degree from Lewis University in 2004. |
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