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Following law school, Sheila Simon worked as a staff attorney at a legal aid clinic, the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation from 1987 to 1992, providing legal services to indigent clients. She was an associate at the firm of O#39;Neill Colvin in Carbondale, Illinois, from 1992 to 1994 and then served as an assistant state#39;s attorney in Jackson County, Illinois from 1994 to 1998, where she prosecuted DUIs and domestic battery cases. Along with several other attorneys and with the support of school faculty, Simon helped to inaugurate Southern Illinois University#39;s law school domestic violence clinic in 1998. She worked as a clinical assistant professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law from 2000 to 2005 and was promoted to clinical associate professor in 2005. She taught both lawyering skills and family law in addition to her clinical teaching. In 2010, Simon was elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. She and her husband, Perry, have two daughters, Reilly and Brennan, and she plays banjo and bassoon in the band Loose Gravel.