Ms. Spector is a Managing Partner of Hicks & Spector, LLC.  She is licensed to practice law in the States of Illinois and Missouri (inactive).

Ms. Spector received a B.S. in Business Administration from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she majored in Marketing and minored in Psychology.  During her time at The University of Illinois, Ms. Spector was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, the National Society for Collegiate Scholars and served as a student facilitator for the First Year Impact freshman orientation program.

Ms. Spector then received her Juris Doctorate from Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale, Illinois.  Throughout law school, Ms. Spector was an active member of the Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, as well as the student divisions of the Illinois State Bar Association and American Bar Association.

Ms. Spector went on to receive a Master’s of Business Administration from the Southern Illinois University Graduate School in Carbondale, Illinois.  While attending business school, Ms. Spector worked as a Graduate Assistant with the Southern Illinois University Center for Innovation and became a Certified Small Business Consultant.  In 2010, as a result of her studies and involvement with the Business Graduate School, Ms. Spector received the Asthagiri Chandra Sekaran Award and was named the Most Outstanding Woman M.B.A. Graduating Student.

Since graduating from law and business schools, Ms. Spector has represented clients in the St. Louis Metro and Metro East areas in not only family law cases, but in a variety of other civil litigation settings,  Ms. Spector also established Hicks & Spector, LLC, with her colleague and friend, Kelly Garrett-Hicks.

Ms. Spector is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the St. Clair County Bar Association and the Madison County Bar Association.

She lives in Edwardsville, Illinois with her husband, daughter and pets.