Ms. Kathryn Zeledon Nelson

Kathryn Zeledon Nelson

Kathryn Zeledon Nelson is a graduate of the University of Illinois/Urbana. She earned a Juris Doctor degree, with honor, from DePaul University in 1984.

Ms. Nelson began her legal career as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago. From 1984 to 1996, Ms. Nelson represented the City and its employees in complex state and federal litigation, as well as administrative agency actions, involving personal injury, labor, and employment actions. Ms. Nelson later served as Director of Labor Relations and First Deputy General Counsel for the Chicago Public Schools. For the final six and a half years of her career in City government, Ms. Nelson was a Deputy Commissioner overseeing policy and legal affairs for the Chicago Fire Department. Ms. Nelson also served for a year as Deputy Inspector General of the State of Illinois.

Following her retirement from City government in 2003, Ms. Nelson became Of Counsel to the law firm of Jaffe & Berlin, L.L.C., and joined the firm in April of 2007, where she has continued to practice law in the areas of labor, employment, civil rights, personal injury and commercial litigation.

Ms. Nelson is also adjunct faculty at the Graham School of Management of Saint Xavier University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in business law and management.