Private services for former Cook County Public Defender Abishi C. Cunningham, Jr.

Cook County judges were informed earlier this week of the passing of former Judge Abishi C. Cunningham Jr.

Cunningham served as a judge from 1986 to 2009. He then served as the Cook County Public Defender from 2009 to 2015.

Cunningham was a graduate of Fisk University and Northwestern Law School. He had been an adjunct professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and was also an adjunct professor at the DePaul University School of Law and the former John Marshall School of Law.

Services were private.