Lincoln Park Resident Re-elected to Illinois State Bar Association Board of Governors

Stephen M. Komie, a life-long resident of Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, a principal in the Chicago law firm of Komie and Associates, has been re-elected to a sixth three-year term on the Board of Governors of the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA). Upon the completion of his term of office he will have been in bar leadership for eighteen years. While on the Board of Governors he has served as Treasurer and Secretary of the bar. 

The 27-member Board of Governors oversees the operations and management of ISBA, subject to policies set by the 201-member Assembly. 

Komie, 39 years a trial and appellate practice lawyer, previously served five three-year terms on the ISBA’s Board of Governors from 1992-2011. He has been a member of the ISBA’s Assembly since 1985. He has served on numerous ISBA committees and been a frequent speaker at the ISBA’s Continuing Legal Education seminars. Finally, he has served as the non-governmental delegate to the Hague Convention on child abduction representing the interest of the International Bar Association and legal community. 

Among his professional awards he received the American Trial Lawyers Association’s “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” award and its Public Service Award.  The ISBA has awarded a Board of Governors award for his service in drafting and securing an Attorney’s Bill of Rights for attorney’s professional discipline.  Mr. Komie has been elected by his peers to two prestigious groups, Illinois Leading Lawyers and Illinois Super Lawyers in recognition of his legal accomplishments in the courts of the state, the nation, and international tribunals. 

Komie graduated from Francis Parker School in 1966. He received his law degree from DePaul University College of Law in 1976 and his Masters and undergraduate degree from University of Arizona in European and American History. Komie is active as a member of the Patrician Society of Old St. Patrick’s Church, serves on the DePaul and Francis Parker alumni boards. 

The 32,000-member Illinois State Bar Association, with offices in Springfield and Chicago, provides professional services to Illinois lawyers, and education and services to the public through a website (illinoislawyerfinder.com), consumer brochures and the distribution of legal information.