Jay Conison

Mr. Jay Conison attended Yale University where he earned an undergraduate degree (1975) and the University of Minnesota where he earned a Master’s degree (1978) and a law degree (magna cum laude, 1981). His was admitted to the Illinois (1981); United States Supreme Court (1990); Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (1986); Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (1988); Northern District of Illinois (1981); Eastern District of Wisconsin (1984); and Western District of Oklahoma (1990) bars.

Mr. Conison began practicing law with the firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago in 1981. He left the firm in 1990 to join the Oklahoma City University School of Law as an Assistant Professor. He served as Associate Professor, Professor, Associate Dean and Interim Dean until becoming Dean in 1998 at the Valparaiso University School of Law.

He is a member of the Illinois State, Indiana State, Porter County, Lake County, and Chicago Bar Associations. Mr. Conison is a Fellow and Director of the Indiana Bar Foundation, currently serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum and is a member of the Porter County Inns of Court. He is also on the Board of Directors at the Greater Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce and the Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana and is a past member of the University of Minnesota Law School Board of Visitors. Mr. Conison served on the Indiana Society of Chicago, Valparaiso Rotary Club, the Oklahoma City University Presidential Search Committee and the Oklahoma City Inter-congregational Jewish Education Committee.