Jennifer Callahan campaign website goes live

A campaign website has been launched in support of Jennifer Callahan's countywide judicial bid. That's a link to the new campaign website in the preceding sentence; a link has also been added to this site's Sidebar. There is also a campaign Facebook page.

Callahan was recently slated by the Cook County Democratic Party for a countwide vacancy. She was a finalist in the most recent round of associate judge selection.

Her campaign bio notes her South Side roots. An Oak Lawn native and graduate of Mother McAuley High School, Callahan attended college at Miami of Ohio before returning home to study law at what was then John Marshall Law School.

Callahan began her legal career in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, working in several divisions including, ultimately, the Alternative Prosecutions Unit of the State’s Attorney’s Office handling cases in the Drug Treatment Court, Mental Health Treatment Court and Veteran’s Treatment Court.

According to her campaign bio, Callahan now runs her own solo practice, handling transactional work and criminal defense matters. She has also served as an administrative law judge for a state agency.

Callahan has volunteered at Chicago Volunteer Legal Services handling pro bono cases as a guardian ad litem, at Wills for Heroes providing pro bono legal counsel to first responders, and at Mother McAuley High School coaching mock trial for the Mother McAuley Law Society, according to her campaign bio. She now lives on the Northwest Side of Chicago with her husband, 41st Ward Committeeman Joe Cook, and their four daughters.