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Merry C. Rhoades focuses her practice on general counsel services with an emphasis on special education law and student-related issues, school district reorganization matters and tax and finance matters. She also has extensive experience in special education administrative hearings, civil rights litigation, state and federal court litigation at the trial and appellate levels, and state administrative hearings. Merry is active in state-wide school related organizations. She is a member of the Illinois Council of School Attorneys Executive Committee and currently serves as its 2nd Vice Chairperson. Merry also participates in the Illinois Council of School Attorneys’ Special Education Concerns Committee. She is also a speaker for school related organizations including the Illinois Association of School Boards and the Illinois Association of School Administrators. She also serves as an Illinois Association of School Boards PRESS advisory committee member Merry is a native and life-long resident of Illinois having grown up in Central Illinois and graduating from Sullivan High School in Sullivan, Illinois. Merry also lived from nine years in Carbondale, Illinois before relocating to Glen Carbon, Illinois. She currently serves as a planning and zoning commission member for the Village of Glen Carbon. Education
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