Welcome to the Effingham Noon Rotary webpage! Our Club year runs from July 1 – June 30.
Club President Andrew Koester 2024-2025
Andrew Koester was named a Partner at Taylor Law Offices PC at the beginning of 2025. He is an experienced attorney in both criminal and civil matters. Andrew served as Assistant states Attorney in Clay County from 2016-2019 and as States Attorney from 2019-2022. He joined Taylor Law Offices in 2023. Andrew joined Noon Rotary in 2022. He lives in Effingham with his wife, Olivia, and three children.
Club President-Elect Mike Kirchoff 2025-2026
Raised in Effingham, Mike is a 1981 graduate of Effingham High School. He also graduated from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston where he was a triple major, receiving degrees in business and economics. During his more than 35 years in the economic development profession, he has worked in four midwestern states. In his current role as a Key Account Executive with Ameren, he works with the company’s largest customers to address challenges and opportunities with an objective to increase jobs, investment, and consumption of utilities. Connect with Mike on LinkedIn here!
During his career he has been a member of Rotary in three states and multiple locations, having first joined the Jacksonville (Illinois) Rotary Club in 1997. He joined the Effingham Noon Rotary Club in 2018. A key objective for his term as Club President will be to identify best practices in other locations and adapt them as appropriate for the Effingham Noon Rotary, with a particular emphasis on new member growth.
Mike and his wife Lynn have been married for 35 years. She is a Senior Accountant for Kingery Printing in Effingham. They are parents of two daughters – Amy Rowald, a medical researcher in Kansas City; and Cari Jaeger, an investigator with the Jackson County (Kansas City, MO) Public Defender’s Office; and also have three grandchildren.