Kerryann Haase Minton

Kerryann Haase Minton serves as a trusted advisor to companies seeking a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach to employment matters. Clients value her depth of knowledge and unfaltering commitment to their business goals.

Kerryann is an experienced and effective litigation strategist, successfully defending clients in employment disputes at the federal and state levels. She uses her litigation experience to assess employment practices and structure personnel polices to increase workplace productivity and minimize the threat of litigation.

Clients look to Kerryann for counsel on a broad spectrum of employment issues affecting financial institutions, manufacturing companies, logistics companies, and higher education institutions. Her work includes:

• Discrimination, wrongful termination, wage and hour claims, and non-compete claims

• Employment counseling

• Staff and leadership training, including executive management skills, employee leave and accommodations, succession planning, board of directors/governance, and harassment avoidance

• Employment practices liability matters and defending Directors and Officers under D&O policies

Kerryann serves on the Firm’s Management Committee and leads the operations and strategic vision in Chicago as the Office Managing Partner.

Vice President, Board of Trustees, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, 2023-2024

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Illinois Bar Association

Member, Michael Best Management Committee

Member, National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)

Member, Wisconsin Bar Association

The Horton Group Board of Directors, 2022-Present

Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), YPO Chicago Gold

- Member, 2022-Present

Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), Chicago-Metro Gold Chapter

- Member, 2020-2022

- Membership Committee, 2020-2022

Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), Chicago-Windy City Chapter

- Chapter Chair, 2019-2020

- Member, 2013-2020

- Vice President of Board, 2018

- Membership Chair, 2016-2018

- Networks Chair, 2015-2016

- Networks Vice-Chair, 2014-2015

Experience

• Groundbreaking argument in a national origin discrimination case

• Winning on both sides of non-competes

• Defending against EEOC class action

• Defending against multiple counts of sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation

• Training on sensitive issues

University of Illinois Chicago School of Law

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

1996

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelors of Arts (B.A.)

1992