Email: jtappendorf@ancelglink.com

Member: The American and Chicago Bar Associations, the American Planning Association (Amicus Committee and Planning and Law Division), and Commercial Real Estate Executive Women of Chicago (CREW). Admitted to practice in the Illinois state courts, Northern District of Illinois, and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Education: Illinois State University (B.A., 1985), University of Hawaii (J.D. 1997)

Practice Areas: Local Government, Land Use, Economic Development, Election Law, and Zoning Litigation

Bio: Julie A. Tappendorf is a partner with Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Bush, DiCianni & Krafthefer, P.C. She focuses her practice on representing local governments in transactional and litigation matters, including defending land use decisions, negotiating and drafting contracts, drafting zoning, annexation, and subdivision regulations, and advising clients on SSA and TIF financing as well as other economic development matters. She also represents property owners and developers in land use matters. Julie currently serves as Village Attorney for the Villages of Gilberts, Lindenhurst, and Island Lake, and counsel to the Village of Wadsworth.

Particular highlights of her recent practice include:

• Successfully defended a municipality in an action by property owners challenging the annexation of certain property, recently affirmed by the Illinois appellate court.

• Negotiated a settlement of a complex breach of contract case to enforce a development agreement involving a mixed-use downtown development.

• Assisting communities in establishing vacant property regulations, priority liens, and other tools to address the impacts from the housing crisis.

• Completed numerous comprehensive rewrites of zoning, subdivision, sign, and other development regulations.

• Advising communities on day-to-day legal issues relating to ethics, meeting procedures, and local records laws, including preparation of administrative policies relating to FOIA, social media, personnel, and zoning hearings.

Julie has published on a variety of land use and government issues, including a land use casebook, a book on development agreements, and numerous chapters and articles on architectural design, annexation and subdivisions, social media, and regulating distressed properties. She is a frequent speaker at local and national conferences on housing and the economy, sunshine laws, ethics, zoning procedures, and various land use issues.

Julie is an Adjunct Professor at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, and has taught the State and Local Government Law class. She is a faculty member of the ALI-ABA Land Use Institute. She served on the editorial board of the University of Hawai'i Law Review while at the University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law.

Prior to her law career, Julie served for eight years in the United States Army, Military Intelligence Branch, as a Korean cryptologic-linguist.

Julie is the author and moderator of Municipal Minute, a blog dedicated to providing recent updates on topics of interest to local government officials and employees.