Lori Lightfoot Bio, Education, Career, Age, Spouse, Kids and Net Worth

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Who is Lori Lightfoot?

Lori Lightfoot ( Lori Lightfoot) is an American Politician and Lawyer. Currently, she is the 56th mayor of Chicago, previously she was working as an associate at Mayer Brown in private legal practices. While at Mayer Brown, Lori held different positions in the government position in the City of Chicago. She was well known when she working as the president of the Chicago Pollice Board. In addition, she has also worked as chair for the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force. In 2019, she ran for the seat of Mayor of Chicago where she ran against Toni Preckwinkle. Lori defeated Toni in the 2019 runoff on April 2, 2019. Lori is a member and a supporter of the Democrat Party.

Career

She started her career in the public sector as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. During her mayoral campaign, she outlined the reason that made her join the public service. Furthermore adding her desire to represent the African-American community.

While working as a federal prosecutor, Lightfoot assisted in the prosecution of those accused of federal crimes, including drug crimes. Moreover, she helped with Operation Silver Shovel, an FBI investigation into Chicago corruption. After that, she helped in the conviction of alderman Virgil Jones. However, in 1999, Lightfoot was warned against misconduct by Judge Richard Posner.

This was due to a case in which she was found by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to have misled a United States Circuit Judge regarding a suspect’s whereabouts. That made it impossible for the judge to stay the suspect’s extradition to Norway. Lightfoot and the Department of Justice at the time disputed this interpretation of his actions. Working as at Chicago Department Office of Professional Standard.

In 2002, she was appointed as a chief administrator of the Chicago Police Department’s Office of Professional Standards. Lori held the position for two years. She was tasked to investigate possible cases of police misconduct. This misconduct included police shootings of civilians. Lightfoot says her recommendations for disciplinary action have often been rejected by the police department. In one notable case, she recommended the firing of Officer Alvin Weems, who shot and killed an unarmed man, Michael Pleasance.

However, Weems later committed suicide. In another controversial case, an officer by the name of Phyllis Clinkscales shot and killed 17-year-old Robert Washington, unarmed, but Lightfoot determined the shooting was justified. In doing so, she reversed the order of her predecessor, who had asked for Clinkscales to be fired. Furthermore, she cited that her action on pushing for a 30-days suspension for Clinkscale, where she said it was the most that was possible given the circumstances.

A Photo of Lori Lightfoot
A Photo of Lori Lightfoot

Lori Lightfoot Age

She was born on August 4th, 1962, currently, she is aged 58 years. She will be turning 59 in June 2021

Lori Lightfoot Family

Parents

She is the daughter of Ann Lightfoot and Elijah Lightfoot. Her father was a local factory worker while her mother a nighttime healthcare aide and also a school board member.

She was born in Massillon, Ohio but grew up mostly in the white neighborhood on the west side of the city.

Siblings

She has three siblings where she is the youngest in the family of four.

Lori Lightfoot Education

It is no known as to where she started her lower schooling but as for the senior class, she attended the Washington High School in Massillon. In one incident she organized a boycott of her school’s lunch program over the quality of the pizza. The boycott was successful as the school changed and provided a more flavourful pizza. However, she was detained as a punishment for the boycott.

After high school, she joined the University of Michigan where she graduated with B.A in political science in 1984. After that, she joined the University of Chicago Law School where she was awarded a full-time scholarship. She graduated from the University with J.D degree in 1989.

Lori Lightfoot Spouse

Lightfoot is open about her being a lesbian, She is married to Amy Eshleman who is a former Chicago Public Library employee.

Lori Lightfoot Kids

The couple adopted a daughter by the name of Vivian. Currently, her partner Amy works as a full-time parent to take care of their daughter.

Lori’s career from 2004-2005

In 2004 she went ahead to work at the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications. After that, she was later hired by Mayor Richard M. Daley as the deputy head of the Chicago Procurement Services Department. While at Chicago Procurement Service Department, Lori and her boss, Mary Dempsey, went on to investigate the corruption in Chicago, drawing the wrath of Mayor Daley in the process.

Lori and Dempsey’s investigations included polls by then-associate of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Tony Rezko and prominent Daley donor Elzie Higginbottom. However, she worked in the procurement services department for a few months. After that, she returned to Mayer Brown. Lori cited that her move to leave procurement was as a result of the consternation of corruption in the City hall.

Working in Private Practice

When she was working as a Lawyer she represented the Republicans in two of their cases protesting Democratic gerrymandering. Furthermore, while at Mayer Brown she represented Chicago police officer Paul Power against charges of Physical assault. Lori was criticized for defending Power however in 2019 she cited video evidence that was declaring the innocence of her client.

She was then hired by the city of Chicago to defend the city against charges brought by the family of a mentally ill woman, Christina Eilman. Christina was arrested by Chicago police after suffering a nervous breakdown at Midway Airport. However, after Christina was released she was sexually assaulted and a seven-story fall.

Eilman’s family reached a $ 22.5 million deal with the city. Lori also worked on the boards of directors of the Illinois branches of NARAL and ACLU. she worked as an external legal counsel for Bank of America. Moreover, in 2013, Lori was a finalist for the US attorney position for the Northern District of Illinois, but the job went to Zachary T. Fard

Working at Chicago Police Board and Police Accountability Task Force

In 2015 Lightfoot started working as the president of the Chicago Police Board. Moreover, in 2017, Mayor Rahm Emanuel reappointed Lori for a second term as president. Lightfoot resigned from the police council in May 2018, shortly before announcing her campaign as mayor. However, she denied rumors that she planned to run for Mayor of Chicago in 2019.

She was chair of the Police Accountability Task Force, which in 2016 presented a report criticizing the practices of the Chicago Police Department. During an interview with CNN in April 2018, she called Emanuel’s approach to police reform “fundamentally flawed.” She has denied rumors that she intends to run for mayor of Chicago in 2019. She is the mother of a former Chicago police officer, a victim of the shooting, Laquan McDonald.

Working as a Mayor for Chicago City

On May 20, 2019, she took office. Acting Mayor Rahm Emanuel modeled the transition between his administration and Lightfoot’s on the US presidential transition between the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Emanuel was part of the Bush-Obama transition as designated by Obama’s chief of staff. Furthermore, as elected mayor, Lori expressed her desire for Laquan McDonald’s “code of silence” trial to be reviewed.

After Lori took the office she appointed attorney and activist Candace Moore as the first director of the Chicago capital, a job that Moore will focus on fighting racial inequality in the city. After that, she called for a review of the 600-page agreement with Sterling Bay regarding the development of Lincoln Yards, which she highly supported the day after previously criticizing the process that had been undertaken to reach the agreement.

Lori backed the deals after the developers agreed to increase commitments to hire minority and female-owned contractors. The following Monday, at his request, Mayor Emanuel postponed city council votes to approve $ 1.6 billion in grants to finance the tax hike for Lincoln Yards and the 78 mega-developments. She also appointed Alderman Scott to serve as a finance committee chairman, Alderman Pat Dowel to work as a Budget chairman, Alderman Tom Tunney to work as a Zoning chairman, and Alderman Gilbert Villegas to serve as a floor leader and economic development chair.

Lori Lightfoot Height

She is not that tall and her height is estimated to be around 5feet and 1inch

Lori Lightfoot’s Net Worth

Her Net worth is estimated to be around $1.5 million and a salary of $216,210k annualy.

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