Aileen Bhandari campaign website goes live

A campaign website has been launched in support of Aileen Bhandari's campaign for the McGuire vacancy in the 11th Subcircuit. That's a link to the campaign website in the preceding sentence; a link has also been added to the Sidebar on this site.

Licensed in Illinois since 2002, according to ARDC, Bhandari is a career Assistant Cook County State's Attorney, having handled over 300 bench trials and 40 jury trials, according to her campaign website.

Her campaign bio notes that Bhandari is a second generation Indian and Filipino American who was raised on Chicago's Northwest side. She attended Our Lady of Victory grammar school and Notre Dame High School for Girls. Bhandari did her undergraduate work at Loyola and attended DePaul University College of Law.

Bhandari made the short list for Cook County Associate Judge in 2019. She ran for a countywide vacancy in 2020. Bhandari was president of the South Asian Bar Association of Chicago and, according to her campaign bio, has served as president of the National Asian Pacific Islanders Prosecutor’s Association Chicago Region.