Michael Weaver campaign website up and running

Michael Weaver, the Cook County Democratic Party's endorsed candidate for the countywide Lynch vacancy, now has a campaign website up and running. That's a link to the site in the preceding sentence; a link has also been added to the Sidebar on this site.

Licensed in Illinois since 2006, according to ARDC, Weaver is currently the Pro Bono Litigation Partner with McDermott Will & Emery LLP.

In that role, according to his campaign bio, Weaver "cultivates and enhances pro bono litigation opportunities available to the Firm’s attorneys in a wide array of substantive areas that impact the communities in which we work and live." Weaver was previously the Partner-in-Charge for McDermott's LGBTQ+ Diversity and Inclusion Committee. As an associate, according to his campaign bio, Weaver "organized a legal clinic for LGBTQ+ individuals with the Center on Halsted and the Broadway Youth Center of Howard Brown."

Weaver has also spent many years working with the non-profit Family Defense Center (n/k/a Ascend Justice). According to his campaign bio, Weaver was a long-time member of the Board, including as a four-year stint as Board President.

Before joining McDermott, Weaver served as a law clerk for Chief Justice F. Michael Kruse and Associate Justice Lyle L. Richmond of the High Court of American Samoa. He maintains a license to practice there as well, and represents various clients in that territory.

Weaver announced interest in a judicial position during the 2020 campaign cycle, but never filed. He earned his law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He also holds an M.A. in Higher Education Administration and Human Resource Development from George Washington University.

Weaver lives with his husband, Paul, and their two Pugs, Magnum and Louie, in Edgewater.