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MCI Officers & Board of Directors:
Board of Directors, left to right:
Back Row: Christine White, Sheila Mack, Helen Torscher
Front Row: Margaret S. Powers, Susan E. McCabe
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President
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SUSAN E. MCCABE, JD
350 High Road
Cary, IL 60013
W: 847.639.5676
FAX: 847.516.3339
E-MAIL: smccabelaw@aol.com
Website: www.smccabelaw.com
Susan E. McCabe
received her law degree from Loyola University in Chicago and has a solo law practice in McHenry County, IL. She offers alternatives to resolve disputes for clients who are divorcing, separating, or who have post-decree disputes and Susan limits her family practice to mediation services and collaborative legal representation. Susan serves as a court-appointed family division mediator for the 19th and 22nd Judicial Circuit Courts, and is a volunteer mediator for pro-se small claims cases in McHenry County. She is an ACR Referral Advanced Family Practitioner and Fellows member of the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois and also its past co-president. Susan also instructs the Parents, Children, and Divorce course at McHenry County College.
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Vice President
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MARGARET S. POWERS, MSW, MA
120 W. Eastman Street #106
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
W: 847.398.1969
FAX: 847.670.0036
E-MAIL: mspowers09@aol.com
WEBSITE: www.margaretspowers.com
Margaret S. Powers is a Collaborative Practice associate who has been in the field since 1988 when she began working at the Cook County Circuit Court as a mediator in the Domestic Relations Division. Ms. Powers has three unique areas of expertise: collaborative practice (child specialist, divorce coach, and mediator), divorce mediation, and family therapy. Margaret has proficiency in working with both traditional and non-traditional family units, including never married and same sex partnerships. As a mediator, Margaret collaborates with judges, attorneys and couples to ensure attempts at alternative dispute resolution are exhausted. Ms. Powers is one of the founding board members of the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois and serves as co-President and Chair of the Best Practice Committee. Margaret is a board member of the International Academy of Dispute Resolution, an International Organization committed to Peacemaking. Ms.Powers is also a founding member and former board member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), an international dispute resolution organization. For ACR, Margaret chaired the Ethics and Peer Review Committee and co-chaired the Committee on Diversity and Equity. Margaret is the past President of the Illinois Council of Mediators, and has chaired the Organization's Ethics and Peer Review Committee for the last seven years. Ms. Powers has been in private practice (M.S. Powers and Associates) for over twenty years in Illinois. She currently teaches Divorce and Family Mediation at Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies. Prior to Northwestern, she taught at DePaul University's Center for Dispute Resolution. Margaret is also a consultant and trainer for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Alternative Dispute Program (for ethical complaints) and is the founder and past chair of NASW's Social Work Mediators Network. Ms. Powers has provided mediation services to several governmental organizations (United States Post Office, Department of Justice, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services) and businesses, as well as assisting companies in the development of dispute resolution programs. Margaret is a graduate of Loyola Universty (Masters in Social Work) and the University of Connecticut (Masters in Psychology).
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Treasurer
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SHEILA MACK, CDFA, CDP
1210 S. Fifth Street
Springfield, IL 62703
W: 217.789.0175
FAX: 217.789.8992
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Corresponding Secretary
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CHRISTINE WHITE
70 W. Madison, Suite 650
Chicago, IL 60601
W: 708.306.5000
FAX: 312.236.9157
E-MAIL: thecdwgroup@aol.com
Christine White received her B.A. from the University of Illinois and her mediation training from the Center For Conflict Resolution and DePaul University. She is a member of The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and The Wisconsin Association of Mediators. She has over 17 years of experience managing conflict in the workplace, both in the private and public sector and has facilitated a divorce support group in her community. Christine is also a Director on the boards of the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness and the Cress Creek Homeowners Association. Her practice is solely in the areas of family, divorce, and post-divorce issues.
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Recording Secretary
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HELEN TORSCHER, CFDA, CSA
4302F Crystal Lake Road
McHenry, IL 60050
W: 815.347.2321
FAX: 847-973-9371
E-MAIL: torscher@yahoo.com
Helen Torscher is a diversified financial professional with over 25 years experience in financial services with expertise in financial issues relating to the divorce process. Her mediation practice is limited exclusively to couples seeking alternative to litigated divorce. She is a mediation training assistant at mediator trainings in the area in financial divorce issues. She achieved Certified Divorce Financial Analyst in 1996, trained Mediator in 1994. Helen is a member of ACR, MCI, CLII, IACP, and the immediate past-president of the Association of Illinois Divorce Financial Professionals.
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Directors
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DON HAMMER, JD
202 N. Center Street
Bloomington, IL 61701
(309) 828-7331
F: (309) 827-7423
Don Hammer earned his J.D. from John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, and earned his Bachelor of Arts from Ohio State University. He was also Clerk to Justice Howard Tryan, Illinois Supreme Court (1975-76). His practice focuses on alternative dispute resolution. He is a Court Certified Divorce Mediator of the 11th Circuit, handling custody issues since 1986 and financial issues since 2005. Don is a Court Certified Civil Mediator and Court Certified Arbitrator (Chair) for the 11th Circuit, a Department of Justice Mediator, a private business and divorce mediator, a mediator for the Illinois Agriculture Mediation Program through Southern Illinois University, and a Hearing Officer for the State Universities Civil Service System. Don has had previous mediation experience in the areas of child abduction cases (Child Find), Department of Child and Family Services, Victim-Offender Reconciliation (VORP), and insurance claims. He also was an Associate Professor of Politics and Government/Paralegal Studies at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, and was an adjunct faculty member providing mediation training at Aurora University.
DIANE K. JOHNSON, JD
455 Coventry Lane, Suite 108
Crystal Lake, IL 60014
(815) 451-2399
E-Mail: djkjohnson@comcast.com
Website: www.bridging-conflict.com
JERALD A. KESSLER, JD
14047 Petronella Dr., Suite #202B
Libertyville, IL 60048
W: 847.367.4500
FAX: 874.367.9424
E-MAIL: Jakessler@igc.org
LAURA NOAH, MA
1111 Westgate Street
Oak Park, IL 60301
W: (708) 434- 0615
Laura L. Noah, owner of Noah Mediation Services (NMS), has a master of Arts degree in Dispute Resolation from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and has been mediating since February 1999. Most recently, Laura worked as a full-time mediator at The Marriage and Family Counseling Service (MFCS), Office of the Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Cook COunty, Chicago, Illinois. At MFCS, she mediated an average of 130 cases per year involving divorcing, divorced, and never married couples regarding child custody and visitation disputes. Laura also served as an "Emergency Intervener" for cases requiring emergency intervention (accusations of abuse, denial of access, parent moving out of state/country) by interviewing all parties involved and making recommendations to the judge. In addition, Laura taught a class for post-decree, pre-decree, and never married parents called "Focus on Children" providing conflict resolution skills and techniques for parents while educating them about the impact of conflict on children. In 2007, Laura left MFCS to establish Noah Mediation Services in Oak Park, Illinois. Laura is an Advanced Family Practitioner Level Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and has completed the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network 40 hour domestic violence training. Laura worked in Human Resources for five years prior to and during the time in which she was obtaining her Master of Arts degree.
WENDY WHITAKER
420 East Ohio Street #9A
Chicago, IL 60611
W: 312.381.3229
FAX: 312.381.6226
E-MAIL: wwmediations@aol.com
THOMAS WINKLEY, LCSW
509 McGregor
Bloomington, IL 61701
W: 309.820.7616
SHARON ZINGERY, MA
Chicago, IL
W: 773.569.8014
E-MAIL: szingery@sbcglobal.net
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MCI Advisory Board Members
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CHAIR: MARGARET S. POWERS, LCSW, MA
120 W. Eastman Street #106
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
W: 847.398.1969
FAX: 847.670.0036
E-MAIL: mspowers09@aol.com
WEBSITE: www.margaretspowers.com
CORINNE ('COOKIE') LEVITZ, JD
1221 North Dearborn
#408 South
Chicago, IL 60610
W: 312.603.1563
FAX: 312.603.9842
E-MAIL: levitzmediation@hotmail.com
THE HONORABLE BENJAMIN S. MACKOFF (retired)
200 North LaSalle Street
Suite 2700
Chicago, IL 60601
W: 312.641.5560
FAX: 312.641.6361
E-MAIL: bmackoff@sdflaw.com
DANUTA MCDANIEL, MA, LCPC, CADC
1039 College Avenue
Suite F-1
Wheaton, IL 60187
W: 630.668.4184
FAX: 630.668.4184
E-MAIL: danutamcd@aol.com
BURTON ZOUB, JD
155 N. Michigan Ave, Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60601
W: 312.938.0011
FAX: 312.938.8541
E-MAIL: bzoub@ameritech.net
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Emeritus Members |
EARL JANN PH.D
BURTON ZOUB, J.D. |
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