Hon. Michael B. Hyman is a judge in the Circuit Court of Cook County, First Municipal District.  He was admitted to practice in 1977 and served as an Assistant Illinois Attorney General in the Anti-Trust Division from 1977 to 1979.  From 1979 until he took the bench, Judge Hyman practiced at Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, becoming a partner in 1985. Judge Hyman is a former president of the Chicago Bar Association.