She currently serves as a professor of law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law.

Personal life[edit]

Simon and her husband, Perry Knop, were married in 1987.^[11] Knop is a Political Science professor and the Social Science department chair at John A. Logan College, the Carterville community college that serves the Carbondale area.^[12] In 2010, they had two daughters in college, and hosted a female exchange student from Peru. Simon has been in the band Loose Gravel for over ten years.^[13] She plays banjo and bassoon.^[14]

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