Christian E. Ketter is an Adjunct Professor of Law at University of Illinois Chicago School of Law and a member of the American Association of University Professors. Prior to joining Peterson, Johnson & Murray, Christian practiced municipal law, civil rights defense, and appellate matters in Itasca, Illinois and was an Adjunct Professor of criminal procedure at Morton College. A former prosecutor, Christian also served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office Criminal Prosecution Bureau. He is a certified mediator and mediated in the Cook County Circuit Courts.

He graduated cum laude from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago in 2018, as a Dean’s Scholarship recipient, and received his undergraduate degree from DePaul University, graduating cum laude. He was the recipient of the DuPage County Bar Foundation’s Judge William J. Bauer scholarship. While in law school, Christian served as President of Phi Delta Phi International Legal Honors Society, received an award for the highest grade in Criminal Law, and was a national competitor in Moot Court—winning an award for best oralist in appellate advocacy. On a personal note, Christian had a previous career as an American operatic tenor, making his Carnegie Hall debut in 2014, covered by the Washington Post, his Chicago Symphony Center debut in 2015 and returning in 2023, and was the two-time national winner of the American Prize in Voice.

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