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Reliable, responsive, and relatable, Julie provides practical advice and offers creative solutions on local government and land use issues.
Julie focuses her practice on local government and land use matters, counseling clients on land use, FOIA, open meetings, ethics, social media and many other topics. She regularly attends board and commission meetings on behalf of the firm’s government clients. She has extensive experience negotiating annexation and development agreements, drafting zoning and other development regulations and approvals, and negotiating development projects, including TIF and special service area financing transactions. She also represents clients in land use disputes and defends clients in lawsuits brought in state and federal courts.
Julie currently serves as City Attorney for Lake Forest and Park Ridge, and Village Attorney for Glenview, Gilberts, and Lindenhurst. She is counsel to the Glencoe Police Pension Board and numerous Illinois municipal libraries and library districts. She also serves as special counsel to government clients on FOIA, land use, and related matters.
Julie is co-chair of Ancel Glink's land use practice. She is editor of Ancel Glink Today, an e-newsletter distributed to firm clients twice each month. Julie is also the author of the local government blog, Municipal Minute, where she writes about current cases, laws, and other topics of interest to local government officials and employees.
Prior to her law career, Julie served for eight years in the United States Army, Military Intelligence Branch, as a Korean cryptologic-linguist.
Experience
- Prepare administrative policies relating to FOIA, social media, electronic communications, medical marijuana, concealed carry, other personnel issues, and the conduct of zoning hearings
- Comprehensive rewrite of zoning, subdivision, sign, and other development regulations

Presentations
- Legal and Ethical Issues With Social Media Use by Local Governments
- OMA, FOIA and Records Retention Training

Publications
- Illinois Freedom of Information Act and Open Meetings Act (IICLE, 2016)
- Handling the Land Use Case (Thompson Reuters, 2016)

Honors & Awards
- Chair of the Chicago Bar Association/Chicago Bar Foundation's Pro Bono Week (2007)