Brandon S. Renner

BRANDON S. RENNER, born Springfield, Illinois, September 1, 1974; Admitted to bar: Illinois; Indiana; U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.

Education: Southern Illinois University (B.A., cum laude, 2000); The John Marshall Law School (J.D., 2003); Phi Alpha Delta.

Member: Illinois State Bar Association (Mineral Law Section), Indiana State Bar Association and Evansville, Indiana Bar Association. [U.S. Navy, 1993, 1997].

PRACTICE AREAS:  Coal, Oil & Gas; Civil Litigation.

Email: brenner@rhine-ernest.com.

Rhine Ernest LLP welcomed Mr. Renner to the firm in December of 2004. After serving in the United States Navy for four years, on board the USS Kinkaid (DD 965) and USS Nimitz (CVN 68), he earned his undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University. He then obtained his Juris Doctor Degree from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois where we was awarded the Chicago Bar Foundation, Walter H. Moses, Scholarship on the basis of academic and personal achievements. While in law school, he interned for the Federal Public Defender Program, assisting in the representation of indigent persons charged with the commission of federal crimes in the Northern District of Illinois, and clerked for the Judiciary of the 2d Judicial Circuit, Illinois. He is currently a member of the Illinois Oil and Gas Association; Tri-State Association of Professional Landmen; Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and Hadi Shriners.