{"id":101,"date":"2014-05-20T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T15:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1964classnews\/?p=101"},"modified":"2014-05-30T14:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T19:55:38","slug":"j-william-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2014\/05\/20\/j-william-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"J. William Roberts &#8217;64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2014\/05\/Roberts-J.-William-1964.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-106 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2014\/05\/Roberts-J.-William-1964-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Dusty Holoubek\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill of Springfield, <span id=\"mpw75540109_20\" class=\"mpw75540109\">elected<\/span> as an active trustee, received his bachelor\u2019s degree in <span id=\"mpw75540109_14\" class=\"mpw75540109\">political science<\/span> from Illinois Wesleyan in 1964 and a juris <span id=\"mpw75540109_12\" class=\"mpw75540109\">doctorate degree<\/span> from the Washington University School of Law in 1967. He is managing partner of Hinshaw &amp; Culbertson LLP, which has offices in eleven states. Roberts previously served as chief legal counsel for Illinois Governor Jim Edgar and was <span id=\"mpw75540109_8\" class=\"mpw75540109\">United States Attorney<\/span> for the Central District of Illinois. A native of Roodhouse, Ill., Roberts received the University\u2019s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003. He served as a member of the <span id=\"mpw75540109_7\" class=\"mpw75540109\">Board of Trustees<\/span> from 2006 until May 2013, at which time he became an Emeritus Trustee and now under new bylaws returns to active trustee status.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Bill!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill of Springfield, elected as an active trustee, received his bachelor\u2019s degree in political science from Illinois Wesleyan in 1964 and a juris doctorate degree from the Washington University School of Law in 1967. He is managing partner of Hinshaw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2014\/05\/20\/j-william-roberts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}