Joseph D Ament

Joe Ament is an accomplished tax and business lawyer, as well as a certified public accountant. He has extensive experience in financial, estate and income tax planning; business mergers and acquisitions; and entity structures, including corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. Joe became a certified public accountant in 1959. Before beginning his career in law, he spent eight years as a staff CPA and tax manager with David Himmelblau & Company. Since 1966, Joe has taught taxation, estate planning, accounting for executives, and business ethics courses at Roosevelt University, where he has been the Samuel W. Specthrie Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Taxation. He chaired the Department of Accounting and Taxation for 19 years. He is currently Chair of the Hillels of Illinois Endowment Foundation, has been a member of the National Hillel Lay Leadership Board and Chair of the Hillels of Illinois Governing Commission (1993-96). He served for three years as Vice Chair and for nine years as a Director of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, and is a current member of that organization's Finance, Legacies and Endowments, and Audit Committees, as well as its Agency Endowment Program, Jewish Day School Guaranty Trust Fund and Arie Crown Hebrew Day School Endowment Foundation. He has also been a Director of the Lawson House YMCA Board. Joe is a Life Trustee/Director and former President of the Ida Crown Jewish Academy. Joe is a member of Central Avenue Synagogue, in Highland Park and Congregation Yehuca Moshe in Lincolnwood. Joe sits on John Marshall Law School's Braun Bequest Fund Annual Lecture Series Committee and is a member of the Braun Bequest Fund Committees of Camp Ramah in Wisconsin and CJE Senior Life. He is also Secretary and General Counsel for the Herrendorf Family Foundation. JOHN MARSHALL J.D. 1962 ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY M.B.A. 1959 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS B.S. 1958