TERRI FINESMITH HORWICH

Terri Finesmith Horwich is a founding partner and also "of counsel" to the firm, but currently devotes her energies to being a stay-at-home mother to her two children. Terri was a principal drafter of the Illinois Family Building Act and has served as a member of several prominent advisory groups that recommended standards for the field of reproductive technology, including the American Bar Association's Executive Committee on the Laws of Reproduction and Genetic Technology, and the ART Working Group of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute for Science, Law and Technology, which published some of its recommendations in Science. She also authored a chapter on egg donation in the IICLE 1998 Child Custody Litigation Practice Handbook. Terri is past Chair of the Advocacy Committee for the National Board of RESOLVE, and also served on the Board of Directors of RESOLVE of Illinois for almost a decade. She is a member of ASRM and a founding member of CAPFAB, as well as a retired member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys.

     Prior to devoting her practice to family-building issues, Terri was an independent legal consultant. Among other projects, Terri assisted the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services by providing strategic planning for its reform activities in areas such as adoption, foster care, and special needs services. Terri also worked as a litigation attorney at Davis, Miner, Barnhill, and Galland, after clerking for Judge Richard Cudahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Distinction in the Major (Psychology) and was also a Special Student in Social Policy Studies at Loyola University's Graduate School of Social Work. Terri graduated cum laude from Northwestern University's School of Law in 1984, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the law review.

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