Rachel Koch comes to the law after twenty years of experience teaching both young people and adults in New Mexico, Chicago, and Ecuador.  Ms. Koch attended DePaul University College of Law, where she was a Sullivan Fellow at the International Human Rights Law Institute and a research assistant to the late Professor Emeritus M. Cherif Bassiouni. She also attended programs abroad in Costa Rica and Italy, focusing on International Law. After working in solo and private practices representing clients in at all stages of litigation in family law, immigration, criminal defense, civil forfeiture, civil and administrative cases, she currently works as an Assistant Public Defender of Cook County, in the Child Protection Conflicts Division, where she represents parents when the state petitions to take their children from their care. She is also an Adjunct Professor at DePaul University College of Law where she has taught Education Law and Policy in the Law School and Evidence to the Master of Legal Studies students through the Fraternal Order of Police program. She also works as a lecturer for ApexCLE, a private CLE company and volunteers assisting in immigration matters.

Tina Lewis has been an attorney for 18 years, working primarily with indigent defendants. She began her legal career with the Office of the State Appellate Defender in Chicago and subsequently began work as a trial attorney in both Kane and Cook Counties. Currently, Ms. Lewis represents indigent clients in Juvenile Delinquency, but has worked with adults in Felony, Domestic Violence, and Child Protection courts. 

Ms. Lewis worked as a Legislative Assistant for members of Congress before attending the University of Colorado School of Law. At the University of Colorado, she received numerous commendations including the faculty selected Irving P. Andrews Award for her service to the legal community. In the Spring 2020 semester, Ms. Lewis became an adjunct professor at DePaul University College of Law, teaching Criminal Evidence through the Masters of Legal Studies program.

Patrick Morley has been a Cook County assistant state’s attorney since January 2000, where he is assigned as the Deputy Supervisor of the Gun Crime Strategy and Violent Crime Investigation Unit.  He was previously assigned to the  Gang and Complex Homicide Unit, the Cold Case Homicide Unit, and the Complex Narcotics Litigation Unit. Morley is a former seven-year member of the Chicago Police Department, serving as a patrolman and sergeant. In addition to teaching at the Police Academy for the DePaul MLS program, he also is an adjunct faculty member for Northwestern University’s Center for Public Safety, Purdue Global University and Governors State University, and he has trained police officers from around the Chicago area since 2002 for North-East Multi Regional Training (NEMRT).

Allen Moye is an associate professor of law at DePaul and director of the Rinn Law Library. As director, he is responsible for the financial management and quality of library services and research support offered to faculty, students, alumni and other patrons of the library. At the College of Law, he teaches Advanced Legal Research, and for the MLS in Criminal Law, he teaches Introduction to American Law & Legal Systems. 

Justice Jack O’Malley teaches Criminal Law for the MLS program. He began his career as a Chicago police officer. While working full time, he attended law school at Cornell University and the University of Chicago. After graduating from law school, he served as assistant corporation counsel for the City of Chicago. He later worked as a litigation partner at Winston & Strawn and as general counsel for a subsidiary of G.E. Medical Systems. His public service career includes two terms as the Cook County State’s Attorney and a 10-year term on the Illinois Appellate Court.