Terry Huebner was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1960 and has lived in the suburbs of Chicago his entire life. He graduated from high school in 1978 and obtained a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois in Urbana. He began his legal career as a legal assistant for Jenner & Block shortly before beginning law school at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was a member of the school's prestigious trial advocacy team.
After graduating in 1992, he spent more than two decades practicing law with several law firms, both large and small, before eventually opening his own practice. For the most part, his practice focused on civil litigation and real estate, although he also won appeal following an oral argument before the Illinois Supreme Court regarding the propriety of electronic filing of appellate documents which prevented countless cases from being reversed on a technicality. While in college, Terry began writing a young adult novel that he never finished. Even as his law career progressed, he always harbored the dream of writing the kind of thrillers he liked to read, such as those by John Sandford, Scott Turow and John Grisham. In recent years, he has become a big fan of other great thriller writers, such as Robert Crais, Lee Child and Daniel Silva. He began writing Final Exam featuring attorney Benjamin Lohmeier in 2002 and finished the first draft in 2004, only to conclude that at more than 199,000 words, it was much too long for a first-time thriller. He spent several months culling it to more or less its current length and set out unsuccessfully to find an agent in the competitive world of commercial fiction. The book went on the shelf until 2008, when Terry changed the ending only to put it back on the shelf once again.
Having witnessed the explosive growth in digital publishing in recent years, he took another look at Final Exam in late 2011. He made some minor edits and finally published Final Exam as an e-book in December of 2011. Soon, it was also published as a full-sized paperback. Terry began work on a sequel, Final Broadcast, continuing the exploits of Benjamin Lohmeier, which he originally hoped to have completed by the end of 2012. As with many things in life, however, it took longer than expected and wasn't ready to be published until February of 2014. He is currently working on the third book in the series, Final Passage, which he hopes to be available by the Spring of 2015.