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Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (D) - Previous General Assembly (101st)
17th District

Photograph of Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (D)

Springfield Office:

265-S Stratton Office Building

Springfield, IL 62706

(217) 782-4194

District Office:

1812 Waukegan Road

Suite B

Glenview, IL 60025

(847) 486-8810

Years served: January 2019 - Present

Committee assignments: Appropriations-Human Services; Elem Sec Ed: School Curric Policies; Higher Education; Judiciary - Civil; Mental Health (Vice-Chairperson); Commercial Law Subcommittee; Family Law Subcommittee; Medicaid & Managed Care Subcommitte.

Biography: Full-time legislator; human rights attorney; B.A., Indiana University, J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law, L.L.M, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; former litigation attorney at Winston and Strawn; founding member and co-chair of the Illinois Unaccompanied Children's Task Force; former Director of the North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic; former board member of the Glenview Education Foundation; lives in Glenview with her husband and three sons.

Associated Senator(s):

Laura Fine

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