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