Campaign website up and running for Jacqueline Griffin

A campaign website is now operating on behalf of Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Jacqueline Griffin. That's a link to the new campaign website in the preceding sentence; a link has also been added to the site Sidebar.

Licensed to practice law in Illinois since 2005, according to ARDC, her campaign biography notes that she has spent her entire career in the State's Attorney's Office, starting in the Child Support Enforcement Division before moving to the Juvenile Justice Bureau, as an ASA in the Child Protection Division. Griffin now works as a trial specialist in the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Unit within the Felony Trial Division.

Griffin participates in ‘Lawyers in the Classroom’ program, helping middle school students learn about constitutional issues. She has also lectured about sexual assault and consent to high school students.

Griffin sought a countywide vacancy in the 2020 election cycle.

Currently a Bridgeport resident, according to her campaign biography, where she resides with her husband and their two children, Griffin is a native south sider, and a graduate of Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School. She notes that her husband is a member of the plumber’s union and that she has many family members who belong to the Fraternal Order of Police or the Chicago Firefighters Union.