JULIANNE SCHUMACHER GRAN, ESQ  Ms. Julianne Schumacher Gran was born in Texas and raised in Indiana. After graduating from Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana, she received a B.A. in chemistry from St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Ms. Gran attended the Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, graduating with honors in 1990. Following law school, she moved to Chicago and concentrated in the representation of boards of education and other local governments. She worked extensively with a wide range of school districts in the areas of labor and employment, debt financing, school construction, and the constitutional protections afforded to religion and free speech. During later service as Administrative Law Judge for the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, Ms. Gran presided over hearings and issued rulings on allegations of unfair labor practices arising under the Illinois public sector labor act governing school districts and community colleges. She has also worked with issues particular to postsecondary education while serving as staff attorney to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. At Pepple & Waggoner, Ms. Gran’s practice focuses on grievance arbitrations, employment law, tax and levy issues, and general representation of boards of education. Ms. Gran has been admitted to practice in the state courts of Ohio, Illinois, and Kentucky, the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association and the Ohio Council of School Board Attorneys. She participates as a mediator in the pro bono Be Counted Truancy Mediation Program administered through the Cleveland Bar Association. Email: jgran@pepple-waggoner.com |
