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Kwame Raoul's Biography

Office:

Contact Information

500 South Second Street
Springfield, 62701

601 South University Avenue
Carbondale, 62901

201 West Pointe Drive, Suite 7
Belleville, 62226

306 North Pulaski Road
Chicago, 60624

628 Maine Street
Quincy, 62301

8100 South Stony Island, Suite C
Chicago, 60617

100 West Randolph Street
Chicago, 60601

1776 East Washington Street
Urbana, 61802

Zeke Giorgi Center
200 South Wyman Street
Suite 307
Rockford, 61101

Full Name:

Kwame Raoul

Gender:

Male

Family:

Wife: Kali; 2 Children: Che, Mizan

Birth Date:

09/30/1964

Birth Place:

Chicago, IL

Home City:

Chicago, IL

Religion:

United Church of Christ

JD, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1993

BA, Political Science, DePaul University, 1984-1987

Attorney General, State of Illinois, 2019-present

Candidate, Illinois State Attorney General, 2022

Senator, Illinois State Senate, District 13, 2004-2019

Former Member, Committee of the Whole, Illinois State Senate

Former Vice Chair, Criminal Law Committee, Illinois State Senate

Former Member, Energy and Public Utilities Committee, Illinois State Senate

Former Member, Executive Committee, Illinois State Senate

Former Member, Financial Institutions Committee, Illinois State Senate

Former Member, Insurance Committee, Illinois State Senate

Former Chair, Judiciary Committee, Illinois State Senate

Former Chair, Pensions and Investments Committee, Illinois State Senate

Former Member, Public Health Committee, Illinois State Senate

Former Chair, Redistricting Committee, Illinois State Senate

Former Chair, Senate Black Caucus

Former Co-Chair, Special Committee on Pension Investments, Illinois State Senate

Former Co-Chair, Special Committee on Restorative Justice, Illinois State Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on Amendments, Illinois State Senate

Former Chair, Subcommittee on CLEAR Compliance, Illinois State Senate

Former Chair, Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, Illinois State Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on Election Law, Illinois State Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on Gaming, Illinois State Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on Generation, Utilities, and Telecommunications, Illinois State Senate

Member, Subcommittee on Long Term Care, Illinois State Senate

Former Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Pension Reforms, Illinois State Senate

Former Chair, Subcommittee on Redistricting I, Illinois State Senate

Former Chair, Subcommittee on Special Issues, Illinois State Senate

Former In-House Counsel, City Colleges of Chicago

Former Prosecutor, Cook County State's Arrotney's Office

Former Senior Counsel, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone Law Firm

Former President, Relationship Strategies International, Limited Liability Company

Partner, Quarles & Brady, Limited Liability Partnership, 2012-2019

Member, Board of Directors, International Child Care USA, 2014-present

Member, 100 Black Men, present

Member, Board of Directors, North Central Province, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, present

Chair, Racial Profiling Prevention and Data Oversight Board, present

Vice Chair, Sentencing Policy Advisory Council, present

Member, Trinity United Church of Christ, present

Former Member, American Bar Association

Former Board Member, Board of Directors, Cook County Bar Association

Former Member, Board of Directors, Union Park High Schools

Former Member, Chicago Bar Association

Former Member, Haitian-American Lawyers Association

Former Member, Illinois State Bar Association

Former Member, National Association of College and University Attorneys

Board Member, Legal Prep Charter Academies, 2014-2019

Father's Name:

Janin Raoul, M.D.

Favorite Quote:

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Martin Luther King)

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. (Plato)

I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education. (Thomas Jefferson}

Mother's Name:

Marie Therese Raoul

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