Email: jtappendorf@ancelglink.com

Member: The American and Chicago Bar Associations, the American Planning Association (Amicus Committee and Planning and Law Division), Chair of the American Bar Association's Historic Preservation and Architectural Design Controls Committee, 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. Her practice focuses on representing local governments in transactional and litigation matters, including defending land use decisions, negotiating and drafting contracts, drafting zoning and other development regulations, and advising clients on municipal finance issues including economic incentive agreements, special service areas, and TIF financing. In her practice at Ancel Glink and at her former law firm, she has counseled municipalities, park, school, and library districts, townships, water commissions, and other local governmental bodies on all aspects of government law. She has also represented private sector clients in land use matters. Ms. Tappendorf currently serves as Village Attorney for the Villages of Gilberts, Lindenhurst, and Island Lake, and is general counsel to the Glencoe Police Pension Board Fund.
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 across the state in updating their property maintenance codes to incorporate vacant property registration requirements, abandoned building regulations, priority liens, and other tools to address the impacts from the housing crisis.

• Completed numerous comprehensive rewrites of zoning, subdivision, and sign codes, and other ordinances and regulations on behalf of general and special counsel clients.

• Advising communities on day-to-day legal issues relating to ethics, meeting procedures, and local records laws, including preparation of a comprehensive policy and forms to comply with the recent amendments to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.

Ms. Tappendorf has published on a variety of land use and related government issues, including a land use casebook, a book on development conditions, and numerous chapters and articles on architectural design, annexation and subdivisions, and regulating distressed properties. She is a frequent speaker at local and national conferences on government issues, such as federal land use claims, climate change, social networking by government bodies, housing and the economy, sunshine laws, ethics, historic preservation, and architectural controls.

Ms. Tappendorf is an Adjunct Professor at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, and has taught the State and Local Government Law class. 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, Ms. Tappendorf served for eight years in the United States Army, Military Intelligence Branch, as a Korean cryptologic-linguist.