While in law school, Kate served as Editor-In-Chief of the Saint Louis University Law Journal and published Regulating What's Not Real: Federal Regulation in the Aftermath of Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 48 ST. LOUIS U. L. J. 1063 (2004). She was a Dean's Scholar, received the Academic Excellence Award for Legal Research and Writing and was inducted into the Alpha Sigma Nu honor society in 2004. Kate was included in the 23rd and 24th editions of Who's Who: American Law Students. Kate was a valued associate at the outstanding international law firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, Missouri, until she joined the Chicago office of one of America's most prestigious firms, Greenberg Traurig LLP, in July of 2006.

Lily Dugan has been Sheila Dugan's Executive Personal Assistant since 1997. Her position actually began two years after she completely stopped chewing up the kitchen floor in Ms. Dugan's home in West St. Louis County. She is in charge of keeping Sheila Dugan on schedule, and commenting on the students who aren't singing very well or in tune, by running screaming from the room shortly after they begin singing.

Ruby Dugan has been employed as Ms. Dugan's Human Resource Manager since the year 2000. It was clear early on in her professional relationship with Ms. Dugan, that Ruby Dugan had the natural talent to manipulate people into doing exactly what she wanted them to do (in the most charming ways, of course!). This currently includes getting to sit on a lot of laps, and slowly, but surely, getting her tummy rubbed.