Norman V. Chimenti received a B.A degree from Yale University in 1962 and a LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1967 after serving in the United States Marine Corps. He is a member of the Chicago, DuPage County and Illinois State Bar Associations. He has extensive business experience as General Counsel and Executive Vice President-Operations and Industrial Relations with a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm and as Executive Vice President and General Counsel with a hazardous chemical transportation company. He joined the firm of Martin, Craig, Chester & Sonnenschein as a partner in 1993. He has represented both public and private employers with respect to labor and employment law matters, and his clients include a number of small and medium sized business entities for which Mr. Chimenti performs general corporate and transactional services. His experience includes all aspects of labor contract collective bargaining, labor arbitration proceedings, union organization and campaigns, unfair labor practice charges, employment terminations, and EEOC and OSHA matters. Mr. Chimenti also has worked extensively in the field of environmental regulatory compliance, with emphasis on Phase I and II environmental site assessments, workplace hazards, hazardous materials releases, site remediation (including “Superfund” clean-ups), underground storage tanks, asbestos removal, and emergency response to hazardous material transportation incidents. Mr. Chimenti’s experience encompasses waste disposal and treatment systems, and environmental and labor relations aspects of real estate transactions and corporate sales/acquisitions, and municipal law. He has established strong relationships with scientists, engineers, and other experts in the environmental field, and has practiced successfully before federal, state and local governmental agencies in environmental, labor and employment, and land use and zoning matters. He is active in community affairs and has served as chairman of the Hinsdale Plan Commission. He serves as a member of the Illinois EPA Small Business Assistance Task Force, and has been appointed by the Governor to represent private industry on the Illinois Environmental Amnesty Task Force. In addition, he is appointed Special Assistant Illinois Attorney General for labor relations matters. Born in Chicago in 1940, he currently resides in Westmont with his wife of 40 years.