Deidre Baumann campaign website launched

A new campaign website has been established in support of the latest bid by Deidre Baumann for a seat on the Cook County Circuit Court. That's a link to the site in the preceding sentence; a link has also been added to the Sidebar on this site.

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. After leaving that office, Baumann "began working at a small boutique firm specializing in First Amendment law." She set 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 and 2020, Baumann's campaign bio stresses her extensive bar association activity. According to her updated campaign bio, she currently chairs the General Practice and Small Firm Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association, serves as secretary for the Federal Civil Practice Committee of the Illinois State Bar, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago and on the Board of the Decalogue Foundation. Baumann is a past-president of both the Decalogue Society of Lawyers and the North Suburban Bar Association. Also, according to her campaign bio, Baumann has served on the Executive Boards for the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois and the Chicago Bar Association, Alliance for Women. Also, Baumann has chaired the Suburban Bar Coalition for many years, according to her campaign bio.

Baumann attended the University of Illinois, from which she received both her undergraduate and law degrees. A Lane Tech graduate, Baumann is a long-time officer and board member of the Lane Tech Alumni Association, according to her campaign bio. Since 2004, the bio notes, Baumann has "served as President of the Chicago/Cook County 4-H Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing scholarships for deserving 4-H youth who are attending a college or university."