Contact Brian

lcsatowne@msn.com

About Brian

Brian has been the LaSalle County State's Attorney since December 2006. A lifelong resident of LaSalle County, Mr. Towne has worked for the LaSalle County State’s Attorney’s Office since 1992.  During his fifteen year period, he worked in every division of the office, including traffic, juvenile, misdemeanor and felony.  He also served as chief spokesman in labor negotiations and arbitrations from 1996-2000.  Brian has extensive jury trial experience, including the litigation of all murder trials conducted by the office since the year 2000.  A cum laude graduate of Western Illinois University, Towne received his Juris Doctorate degree from DePaul University College of Law in 1992.  While attending DePaul , he also served as a Law Clerk for the City of Chicago Corporation counsel’s Office.  He is a part time instructor at Illinois Valley Community College, lecturing on the subjects of Criminal Law, Criminal Investigations and issues in Criminal Justice.  He has taught at IVCC for approximately nine years.

Towne currently serves as Chairman of the Child Advocacy Center Board, Chairman of the Juvenile Justice Council, and is a member of the Family Violence Prevention Council Elder Abuse Training Team, the Illinois State’s Attorney’s Association Executive committee, and the LaSalle Drug Task Force Policy Board.  In 2002, with the creation of the Illinois Supreme Court Capital Litigation Trial Bar, Brian became the first LaSalle County lawyer to be lead council certified.  He wrote a portion of the training manual used in the State of Illinois to teach Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners.  Towne has served as President of the Illinois Valley Chapter of Crime Stoppers, and is a current member of the U.S. Supreme Court Trial Bar, the Illinois State Bar Association, the LaSalle County Bar Association and the Prosecutor’s Bar Association.  Towne has also completed courses offered by the Association of Government Attorney’s in Capital Litigation, the National College of District Attorney’s and the Illinois Appellate Prosecutor.