Alice M. Noble-Allgire
Professor of Law

Biography

A member of the School of Law faculty since 1993, Alice M. Noble-Allgire was a journalist in her former career. She began working for United Press International in 1980 while completing her B.S. degree at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She served in a number of reporting and editorial positions, including Iowa State Editor, before she left the wire service in 1985 to join the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. While in Seattle, she won several writing honors, including state and regional awards for a series on school desegregation.

Professor Noble-Allgire attended law school at Southern Illinois University, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Southern Illinois University Law Journal and was a member of a moot court team that took first place in the National Environmental Moot Court Competition in 1990. She also won second place in the Roscoe B. Hogan Environmental Essay Contest sponsored by Association of Trial Lawyers of America in 1989.

Professor Noble-Allgire earned her J.D. summa cum laude in 1990 and clerked for United States District Court Judge James L. Foreman for five years before beginning her full-time teaching career. She assisted Judge Foreman in preparing opinions for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit as well as for the district court. She also worked part-time as an adjunct professor at the School of Law during the last two years of her clerkship.

Professor Noble-Allgire teaches Property, Trusts and Estates, Legal Profession, and a seminar on Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation. She received the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award in 1996-97 and 2006-07, as well as the Faculty-Staff Senior Class Award in 1998 and 2000. She was listed as one of the "Ten Best Law Professors in Illinois" by Chicago Lawyer magazine in January 2006. She is co-author of the second edition of the Property and Lawyering textbook (West, 2006).

Professor Noble-Allgire is an associate editor of the American Bar Association’s Probate and Property magazine and a member of the American Law Institute. She has also served as a reporter for a National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws study committee on construction defects in residential housing and was secretary-treasurer of the Southern Illinois American Inn of Court from 2003-07.

Locally, she is secretary-treasurer of the Southern Illinois American Inn of Court.