Campaign website for Deidre Baumann goes live

Supporters of Deidre Baumann have launched a campaign website on her behalf. That's a link to the site in the preceding sentence; a link has also been added to the blog Sidebar.

Licensed as an attorney since 1992, according to ARDC, Baumann practices with the firm of Baumann & Shuldiner. She began her legal career, according to her campaign bio, with as an Assistant Public Defender before setting up her own practice in 1996. Between 2009 and 2011 Baumann represented many of the plaintiffs in the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal.

A countywide judicial candidate in 2016, Baumann's campaign bio stresses her extensive bar association activity. According to the campaign bio, Baumann is currently president of the Suburban Bar Coalition and has served as president of both the Decalogue Society of Lawyers and the North Suburban Bar Association. The campaign bio also notes that Baumann "currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago and for the Decalogue Foundation and has served on the Executive Boards for the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois and the Chicago Bar Association, Alliance for Women. She is currently vice chair of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee of the Illinois State Bar Association, is secretary for the General Practice and Small Firm Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association, and serves on the Federal Civil Practice Committee of the Illinois State Bar, the Public Affairs and Interfaith Committees with the Chicago Bar Association and has served as the Chair of the Constitutional Law Committee and Planning Committee for a Seminar on Hate Speech."

Baumann attended the University of Illinois, from which she received both her undergraduate and law degrees. A Lane Tech graduate, Baumann currently serves as secretary of the Lane Tech Alumni Association, according to her campaign bio.