Prior to joining the CR Group as its Executive Director in September 2007, Colleen Coughlin served for 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Division, in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois, and prior to that, she was an Assistant State's Attorney in DuPage County. She also has her own business, Healthy, Wealthy & ALIVE, an Independent Shaklee Distributorship and, for the past five years, has volunteered on the Gala fund raiser for the UIC Medical Center "Walter Payton Center Guild," raising funds for seeking solutions for liver disease, hepatitis, gastrointestinal and liver cancers and the liver transplant program. Ms. Coughlin earned her J.D. from Loyola of Chicago School of Law and her B.A. from the University of Illinois - Champaign-Urbana.