Claudia Silva-Hernandez campaign website launches

A campaign website has gone live supporting a bid by Claudia Silva-Hernandez for election to the Cook County bench. That's a link to the site in the preceding sentence; a link has also been added to the site Sidebar.

Licensed as an attorney in Illinois since 2007, according to ARDC, Silva-Hernandez currently works for the Clerk of the Circuit Court. Her campaign bio notes that she has previously worked as an Administrative Law Judge with the Illinois Department of Human Services and, at various times, Silva-Hernandez has worked for the Will County Public Defender's Office, for the Independent Police Review Authority, the Chicago Housing Authority, and the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.

Before becoming a lawyer, according to her campaign bio, Silva-Hernandez was a Limited English Proficiency Specialist and taught Latin American Studies, both at Morton Community College in Cicero. She also worked as a counselor at the Chicago office of INROADS, a company dedicated to training young people of color and matching them with corporate employment opportunities.

Silva-Herndandez was born in Blue Island, the child of Mexican immigrants from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, according to her campaign bio. Her father is a retired union boilermaker and her mother is a businesswoman and a dentist, practicing over 30 years in the South Suburbs.

Silva-Hernandez and her husband, a union ironworker, reside with their two children in Gap district of Bronzeville, according to her campaign bio. She and her husband are members of the Gap Community Organization and parishioners at Providence of God/St. Procopius Catholic Church. Their children attend Chicago Public Schools. This is Silva-Hernandez's first attempt at seeking judicial office.