Wendy Shparago Cappelletto, CAP, Fellow

Speaker Profile

Cook County Public Guardian

Business

69 W Washington St Ste 700
Chicago, IL 60602-3044

Professional Biography

Wendy Shparago Cappelletto is the Director of Policy and Benefits at the Office of the Public Guardian of Cook County, in the Adult Guardianship Division. Prior to joining the Public Guardian’s Office in 1998, Ms. Cappelletto was a staff attorney at Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. She is a member of the Guardianship/Conservatorship Section Steering Committee and the Council of Advance Practitioners of NAELA. She currently serves as a NAELA representative to the National Guardianship Network. She was a NAELA delegate at the Third National Guardianship Summit in 2011. In addition, she served as the NAELA Observer on the Uniform Law Commission Drafting Committee for the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship and Other Protective Arrangements Act. She has also co-chaired two national NAELA conferences. She is a two-time past president of the Illinois Chapter of NAELA and is currently serves on the Illinois Chapter Legislative Committee.