Sheila Simon
| Sheila Simon | |
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| 46th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois | |
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In office January 10, 2011 – January 12, 2015 |
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| Governor | Pat Quinn |
| Preceded by | Pat Quinn |
| Succeeded by | Evelyn Sanguinetti |
| Member of the Carbondale City Council | |
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In office January 8, 2003 – January 12, 2007 |
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| Personal details | |
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March 13, 1961 Springfield, Illinois |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Perry Knop (m.1987) |
| Children | 2 Daughters |
| Residence | Carbondale, Illinois |
| Alma mater | Wittenberg University (B.A.), Georgetown Law School (J.D.) |
| Profession | educator |
Sheila J. Simon (born March 13, 1961) was the 46th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, from 2011 to 2015. In 2014, she was the Democratic nominee for Illinois State Comptroller, losing to Republican incumbent Judy Baar Topinka. She was previously a professor of law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law. Simon is the daughter of former U.S. Senator Paul Simon, who had previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (1969-1973), and his first wife, former Illinois State Representative Jeanne Hurley Simon.
On September 7, 2015, Simon announced her candidacy for the Illinois Senate seat being vacated by the retiring David Luechtefeld. Simon was defeated by her Republican opponent Paul Schimpf.
Sheila Simon received a B.A. in 1983 from Wittenberg University and a J.D. in 1987 from Georgetown University Law Center. Following law school, she worked as a staff attorney at a legal aid clinic, the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation from 1987 to 1992, providing legal services to indigent clients. She was an associate at the firm of O'Neill & Colvin in Carbondale, Illinois, from 1992 to 1994 and then served as an assistant state's attorney in Jackson County, Illinois from 1994 to 1998, where she prosecuted DUIs and domestic battery cases. Along with several other attorneys and with the support of school faculty, Simon helped to inaugurate Southern Illinois University's law school domestic violence clinic in 1998. She worked as a clinical assistant professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law from 2000 to 2005 and was promoted to clinical associate professor in 2005.
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