Delivering Results for McHenry County
On my first day in the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office, my predecessor sat me down to discuss what I thought would be a litany of instructions and office protocols. I was wrong. After steadying his gaze on me and letting a few seconds of silence punctuate the weight of what he was about to convey, he calmly said, “I ask only that while working in this office, you do the right thing.” That was it. Over the course of my nine years as a criminal prosecutor and four years as the State’s Attorney, my predecessor’s words have always stayed with me and I regard them as the best advice I’ve ever received about what it takes to be a state’s attorney.