Heather Kroencke

Commissioner

Heather Kroencke is a partner at Zanck, Coen, Wright & Saladin, PC in Crystal Lake, where she focuses her practice on estate planning, estate administration, and real estate. Ms. Kroencke joined the firm as a law clerk, then as an associate attorney after graduation from law school.

Licensed to practice in Wisconsin, Illinois, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Ms. Kroencke graduated cum laude from Marquette University Law School and was a cum laude graduate from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Journalism.

She serves in several positions within McHenry County, including as a former council member for the Northwestern Medicine Memorial Foundation Northwest Region Philanthropic Leadership Council, a graduate of Leadership Greater McHenry County, as a current board member for Big Brothers Big Sisters of McHenry County, and for the board of Deerhaven (a not-for-profit serving the youth of McHenry County).

Ms. Kroencke is a member of the McHenry County Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, and the Wisconsin State Bar Association.

She has served on the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism since 2022.