Lindsay C. Jenkins
US lawyer, judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Lindsay Carole Jenkins (née Clayton; born 1977) is an American judicial officer who is serving as a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She is a former assistant United States attorney from Illinois.
Education
Jenkins received a Bachelor of Arts from Miami University in 1998 and a Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from Cleveland–Marshall College of Law of Cleveland State University in 2002.
Career
From 2002 to 2004, she served as a law clerk for Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. From 2004 to 2006, she was an associate at Jones Day. From 2006 to 2021, she was an assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois; she has served in roles, including Deputy Chief and later Chief of the General Crimes section and eventually Chief of the Violent Crimes section. From 2021 to 2023, she was a partner at Cooley LLP in Chicago, where her focus was on white collar crime.
She has taught trial advocacy courses at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law on the Chicago gun violence epidemic.
Notable prosecutions
In 2015, Jenkins helped prosecute Chicago's public schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett.
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