LaShonda A. Hunt

Hon. LaShonda A. Hunt is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, appointed on Jan. 6, 2017. She previously served as general counsel of the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, chief legal counsel of the Illinois Department of Corrections, and an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illinois. Judge Hunt began her legal career as a litigation associate at a national law firm, followed by service as a staff attorney for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and a clerkship with Hon. William J. Hibbler of the Northern District of Illinois. She also worked in-house in the utility industry overseeing commercial litigation and bankruptcy matters, and later transitioned to regulatory affairs. Judge Hunt was recently appointed by the Chief Justice to a three-year term on the Federal Judicial Center’s Bankruptcy Judge Education Advisory Committee. Sheis an active member of the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. and served as its president in 2015, vice president in 2014 and board member at large in 2013. She is also active in the Chicago Bar Association, where she was co-vice chair of the Federal Civil Practice Committee and a member of the Judicial Evaluation Investigations Committee. Judge Hunt is a Leadership GreaterChicago Fellow (Class of 2013). She served on the board of Just the Beginning, a pipeline organization, and chaired Youth Programs for the 2012 Biennial Conference. Judge Hunt is actively involved with thePublic Interest Law Initiative (PILI) and a frequent speaker at PILI events, as well as a mentor to many law students. She received her B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her J.D.from the University of Michigan Law School.