Loveleen Ahuja announces 8th Subcircuit judicial bid

Loveleen Ahuja has announced plans to run for one of the vacancies in the redrawn 8th Subcircuit. A campaign website has been launched in furtherance of this effort. That's a link to the new campaign website in the preceding sentence; a link has also been added to the Sidebar on this site.

Licensed to practice law in Illinois since 2005, according to ARDC, Ahuja has spent her entire career in the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender. Since 2019, Ahuja has been assigned to the Homicide Task Force in that office; her résumé notes that she has also served in the Felony Trial Division, the Domestic Trial Division, and the Child Protection Division.

Ahuja's campaign bio describes extensive community service, including service on the Foundation Board for the South Asian Bar Association and as Co-Chair of the Mentor/Mentee Committee for the Women’s Bar Association. She has volunteered for a number of community organizations, including St. Leonard's Ministries, according to her campaign bio. Ahuja describes herself as a first-generation daughter of immigrant parents, the first in her family to be born in the United States, and the first to practice law.

Ahuja sought slating for a countywide vacancy at the recent slate-making meeting of the Cook County Democratic Party. She was named the Party's fifth alternate at that time.