About Kent Heller

H. Kent Heller graduated from the University of Illinois in Urbana with a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy with Honors in 1974 and was a teaching assistant at the U of I while completing course work for his Juris Doctor degree, which he earned in 1977.

In addition to being licensed to practice law, Mr. Heller is a licensed Certified Public Accountant, since 1974, and is a licensed pilot, FAA Single Engine-Land-Instrument Rated, since 1969.

• Fellow American Bar Foundation (2002 -)
• Leading Lawyer (2005 - 2020)
• Martindale Rating (AV)
  

• Illinois Supreme Court
• Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions – Civil (1996 - 2007)
• Chair (2005 - 2007)
• Illinois State Bar Association
• Curriculum Evaluation Committee (1978 - 1979)
• Illinois CPA Society
• Tax Course Development Committee (1979 - 1981)
• Chairman (1981)
• DuPage County Bar Association
• Arbitrator-Court Annexed Mandatory Arbitration (1991 - 1993)
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Assn. Board of Advocates (1993 - 1995)
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Assn. Member Rules Committee (1994 - 2007)
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Assn. Amicus Committee (1994 - 2007)
• Appointed to Mandatory Mediation Panel
• U.S. District Court – Southern District of Illinois (2021 -)
  

• Naperville Jaycees (1978 - 1991)
• Naperville Chamber of Commerce (1988 - 1992)
• Co-Founder & Board of Directors
• Illinois Charitable Vocational Trust (1987 - 1992)
• Mattoon Chamber of Commerce (1992 -)
• Mattoon Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors (2013 -)
• Trustee, 1^st Presbyterian Church, Mattoon (1993 - 1996)
• Elder, 1^st Presbyterian Church, Mattoon (2000 - 2003)
• Executive Board Member, Lincoln Trail Council, Boy Scouts of America (1993 - 2008)
• Chairman, Lincoln Trail Council Advancement Committee (1994 - 1996)
• Mattoon Chamber of Commerce – Board of Directors (2011 - 2020)
• Mattoon Chamber of Commerce – President (2020)