Unchanged number of lawyers with active licenses within Kankakee in May 2026

There was no change in the number of lawyers with active legal licenses in Kankakee in May compared to the previous month, according to the ARDC of the Supreme Court of Illinois.

Overall, the city had a total of 28 lawyers with active licenses in May.

Illinois is home to the sixth-largest lawyer population in the U.S., with nearly 62,000 attorneys, according to the ABA's 2025 National Lawyer Population Survey.

As of June 2026, average lawyer salaries in Illinois ranged from $101,987 for an entry-level attorney handling routine legal work to $258,374 for highly experienced attorneys managing complex cases with significant autonomy. Mid-level attorneys, such as those in Attorney III roles—who handle highly complex legal work with moderate supervision—earned on average $191,228 in Illinois, compared to $187,607 nationwide.

Data refers to all lawyers who were actively practicing during this time period.

Lawyer Name	Name of Firm	License Grant Date
Rose Mary Aviles	Kankakee County State's Attorney Office	05/13/2021
Ketura Baptiste	Prairie State Legal Services, Inc.	11/08/2007
David Martin Bickel	Kankakee County State's Attorney	05/10/2001
Christopher W. Bohlen	Barmann, Bohlen, & Scott, P.C.	09/07/1977
John Shea Coghlan	Kankakee County State's Attorney Office	10/29/1980
Eric C. Davis	Eric Davis, Attorney at Law, P.C.	05/01/2014
Kimberley Marie Donald	The Law Office of Kimberley Marie Donald, Attorney At Law	11/07/1991
Clark E. Erickson		11/23/1976
Andrew Christian Gertsch	Barmann, Bohlen & Scott, P.C.	11/10/2021
Edward Stephen Glazar Jr.	Edward S. Glazar Jr.	11/03/1978
Theresa Marie Goudie	Kankakee County State's Attorney's Office	11/08/2001
Matthew Thomas Gubbins	Matthew T. Gubbins	11/10/1988
Valerie Marie Gunderson	Kankakee County State's Attorney's Office	11/04/2004
Brian Gordon Hiatt	Brian G. Hiatt P.C.	11/05/1998
Paula Marie Jacobi	Riverside Healthcare	05/05/2005
Jena Lucille Jones	Kankakee County Public Defender	01/14/2021
Marlow Allen Jones	Kankakee County State's Attorney's Office	05/05/2011
Benjamin Robert Lawson	Lawson & O'Brien, P.C.	11/05/2009
Kimberly Diane Loewen	Prairie State Legal Services	11/05/2015
Alyssa Marie Moeschke	Kankakee County States Attorney	01/14/2021
Erica Rosalie Parsons	Kankakee County State's Attorney's Office	11/17/2017
Edward J. Pentuic	Kankakee County Public Defender Office	11/08/1990
Daniel P. Reedy	Kankakee County State's Attorney's Office	05/07/1987
Else Schilling	Law Offices of Else J. Schilling	05/08/2003
Scott Jeffery Smith	First Trust Bank	05/08/2008
Rebecca S. Souligne	Kankakee County States Attorney's Office	05/05/1994
Jonathan Neil Watson	Kankakee County State's Attorney's Office	12/18/2001
Deanna Carlson Webb	Deanna Carlson Webb	05/10/2007

Information in this article was obtained from the ARDC of the Supreme Court of Illinois. The source data can be found here.