Justice Walker is a native Chicagoan, who currently serves on the Illinois Appellate Court. He is admitted to the practice of law in both Illinois and Iowa and engaged in a busy practice of criminal and civil law for 14 years prior to being appointed Judge in 2006. He has served in Domestic Violence, Criminal Misdemeanors, Felony Preliminary Hearings, Evictions, Juvenile, and the Law
Judge Edward Joseph Underhill is a longtime champion for equality who was appointed to the bench in 2023 by unanimous vote of the Illinois Supreme Court. He has a wide range of life and legal experience – and positive ratings from all bar associations which have evaluated him. Judge Underhill grew up on the Southwest side of Chicago, the youngest of five. His father
Kari K. Steele was elected November 6, 2012, to her first term as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) and re-elected in 2018 for a second term. In January 2019, she became the first African American woman in the more than 130-year history of the MWRD to be elected by the Board of Commissioners to serve as President. She