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Peggy Denise Gerkin
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Biography
When Peggy Gerkin graduated with her undergraduate degree from Illinois State University, she took a year off to work. It is while working for a well-known worker’s compensation lawyer in Peoria that she decided she wanted to be a trial attorney. She sincerely enjoyed the work back then, and sincerely enjoys it now.
Peggy has been with Franks Gerkin McKenna for 25 years. Before joining the firm, she worked as an Assistant State’s Attorney with the Boone County State’s Attorney’s Office. Within the first year there, she became lead prosecutor and a trial attorney assigned to the felony and juvenile courts.
An accomplished trial attorney, Peggy is especially effective in matters of family law, personal injury, workers’ compensation, and criminal defense. She is also one of the few female attorneys to ever defend a person facing the death penalty.
Peggy is extremely passionate about protecting the rights of her clients, especially when they are children. She believes that children need an advocate more than anyone else.
She is also dedicated to her active involvement in the legal community. She has served a total of four years as the President of the Boone County Bar Association. She prepared the IRS documents to create CASA, a non-profit organization in Boone County protecting the abused and neglected children.
Peggy isn’t only passionate about the law, though. She’s also an advocate for the great outdoors. She loves animals and has always been concerned with the preservation of nature. She and her family have a farm in Kentucky and a wilderness lot on Lake Superior. Just this last summer she volunteered to help rebuild the zoo after the tornado hit Boone County.
Peggy was born in Peoria, but has made a home here in the Marengo area, especially at her go-to restaurants of Checkers in Union and Café 20 in Marengo.
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Licensed in Illinois for 37 years
State: Illinois
Acquired: 1988
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19333 East Grant Highway, Marengo, IL, 60152
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Peggy Denise Gerkin's Reviews
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Posted by Shelley | March 25, 2025 | Hired Attorney
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A true professional
Peggy was professional yet kind. She made herself available to help us at the last minute and I’m so very grateful. She will be the first attorney we call if we need one in the future.
Posted by DeAnna Chadwick | October 9, 2015 | Hired Attorney
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Very good attorney
I hired Peggy to resolve a very difficult and unusual family matter that included a mentally disabled adult person. Peggy was able to resolve the issues to our satisfaction.
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Experience
Honors
2014
Leading Lawyer, Leading Lawyers Network
2014
BV Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
2013
Leading Lawyer, Leading Lawyers Network
2012
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2011
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2010
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Work Experience
1989 - 1990
Attorney, •Boone County State's Attorney's Office
1988 - 1989
Assistant Attorney, •Boone County State's Attorney's Office
Associations
McHenry County Bar Association
Member
Illinois State Bar Association
Member
Boone County Bar Association
Past President
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
Board Member
Education
1988
Northern Illinois University College of Law
JD - Juris Doctor
Speaking Engagements
2013
Illinois State Bar Association
Legal Aid
2010
Illinois State Bar Association
Criminal Contempt
Languages
English
Spanish