Stephen Wigginton, 46, currently serves as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Felony Division of the Madison County’s State’s Attorney’s Office since 1999, and as a partner at Weilmuenster & Wigginton, P.C., since 2000. Prior to this, Mr. Wigginton was an associate attorney with Becker Paulson & Hoerner, P.C., from 1996 to 2000, with Kassley Bone Becker Dix Reagan & Young from 1994 to 1996, and with Jenkins Kling & Sauerwein, P.C., from 1992 to 1994. Mr. Wigginton served an Assistant Circuit Attorney-Felony Prosecutor with the City of St. Louis’ Circuit Attorney’s Office from 1990 to 1992. Mr. Wigginton began his legal career working as an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel for the May Department Stores Company from 1988 to 1990. Mr. Wigginton graduated from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in 1985 and from St. Louis University School of Law in 1988.
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Edward Stanton is currently Senior Counsel for Federal Express, where he has been since 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Stanton was an Associate Attorney at Armstrong Allen PLLC, from 2001 to 2002. From 2000 to 2001, he was an Assistant City Attorney in the City Attorney’s Office for Memphis. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Stanton was an Associate Attorney in the Law Offices of Charles E. Carpenter, P.C. Mr. Stanton graduated from the University of Memphis in 1994 and from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 1997.
Peter Smith, is currently retired. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Smith was the Deputy State Treasurer for the Pennsylvania Treasury Department from 2005 to 2009. Mr. Smith was the Deputy Auditor General for Performance Audits in the Department of the Auditor General for the state of Pennsylvania from 1997 to 2005. From 1994 to 1997, he served as the Deputy Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section in the United States Department of Justice. From 1992 until 1994, Mr. Smith was an attorney for Vaira and Associates, P.C. From 1991 to 1992, he was an attorney with Buchanan Ingersoll. Mr. Smith also served as the State Inspector General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1991. From 1976 to 1987, Mr. Smith worked in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania as an Assistant United States Attorney, where he served as the First Assistant United States Attorney and from 1986 to 1987, and Chief of the Criminal Division from 1985 to 1986. In 1976, Mr. Smith was an Assistant Attorney General in the Attorney General’s Office for the State of Pennsylvania in the Office of the Philadelphia Special Prosecutor. From 1973 to 1976, Mr. Smith was a Staff Enforcement Attorney in the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and he served as an Assistant District Attorney in the District Attorney’s Office for the city of Philadelphia from 1971 to 1973. Prior to entering law school, Mr. Smith served in the United States Naval Reserve, from 1962 to 1966, where he achieved the rank of Lieutenant (Junior Grade). Mr. Smith graduated from King’s College in 1962 and Georgetown University Law Center in 1971.