Meet Our Team

• State of Michigan
• State of Illinois
• Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
• US District Court for the Central District of Illinois
• US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Certified Mediator: Center for Conflict Resolution—courtappointed Circuit Court of Cook County (2016)

• John Marshall Law School, JD, cum laude, 2018
• DePaul University, B.A., cum laude, 2014

Christian E. Ketter is an Adjunct Professor of Law at University of Illinois Chicago School of Law and a member of the American Association of University Professors. Prior to joining Peterson, Johnson & Murray, Christian practiced municipal law, civil rights defense, and appellate matters in Itasca, Illinois and was an Adjunct Professor of criminal procedure at Morton College. A former prosecutor, Christian also served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office Criminal Prosecution Bureau. He is a certified mediator and mediated in the Cook County Circuit Courts.

Christian previously served in an externship at the U.S Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit under the Honorable Judge William J. Bauer. He worked as a 711 Licensed Attorney for the Illinois Attorney General’s Office and clerked in the Appellate Division of the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office. Christian was the 2021 winner of the Illinois Local Government Lawyer’s Association Legal Writing Competition. Christian is a Commissioner on the Itasca Board of Fire and Police Commission. He also serves on the DuPage County Bar Association’s Board of Directors, as Associate Editor of its magazine, the DCBA Brief, and is the Chair of the Appellate Law Section for the DuPage Bar Association.

• Insurance Regulatory Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Employment Litigation
• Personal Injury
• Workers’ Compensation