People in business

Edwardsville resident Judge Barbara Crowder, of the Third Judicial Circuit in Madison County, has been appointed as the Chair of the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services. She has also been appointed as a member of the Civil Practice and Procedure section council of the Illinois State Bar Association.

Edward J. Blake Jr. of the Blake Behme Law Group in Belleville has been selected as a member of The Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a group of attorneys whose members have won a million dollars in verdicts or settlements.

This story was originally published July 5, 2015 at 2:34 PM with the headline "People in business."