Monica Somerville campaign website goes live

A campaign website has been launched in support of Monica Somerville's 2022 judicial campaign. That's a link to the site in the preceding sentence; a link has been added to the site Sidebar.

Licensed in Illinois since 1990, according to ARDC, Somerville's campaign biography describes a varied legal career. According to her campaign biography, Somerville has, at one time or another, served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel (rising to Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel of the Torts Division) for the City of Chicago, as an attorney for the United States Postal Service, as Supervising Administrative Law Judge for the Illinois Department of Employment Security in the Appeals Division, and as litigation counsel for the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission.

Her campaign bio also notes that Somerville is a founder of the South Cook Jaguars, a youth travel basketball program. Somerville has also volunteered with the Chicago Bar Association’s “Lawyers-Lend-A-Hand to Youth” and “Lawyer-to-Lawyer Mentoring Program.”

This is Somerville's first campaign for election to the bench. She did apply for associate judge in February 2021.