The LGBTQ Section of the Cook County Bar Association presents:
LGBTQ+ Justice Town Hall Forum
🌈 Pride Month CLE 🌈
Join us for an engaging and timely Continuing Legal Education (CLE) event in honor of Pride Month. This timely program will bring together attorneys, elected officials, and community leaders to examine the current landscape of LGBTQIA+ rights and civil rights advocacy through an engaging town hall discussion. Panelists will explore key issues impacting the LGBTQIA+ community, including access to justice, recent legal and policy developments, and the role of legal professionals in advancing equity and inclusion.  Attendees will gain insight into effective advocacy strategies and ways to support meaningful, community-driven change.
 This CLE is FREE for active members of the Cook County Bar Association (CCBA), LAGBAC – Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association, the Alliance of Illinois Judges (AIJ), the Chicago Bar Association (CBA). Non-Members are $35.00.
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Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time: 5:30 P.M.
Location:
Hinshaw & Culbertson
151 N. Franklin St., Ste. 2500
Chicago, IL 60606
Panelists
Precious Brady-Davis
MWRD Commissioner & LGBTQ+ Rights Activist
Precious Brady-Davis (she/her)Â is an award-winning advocate, communications strategist, public speaker, and the celebrated author of I Have Always Been Me. She currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Center on Halsted, the largest LGBTQ+ community center in the Midwest, where she leads organizational strategy, cross-sector partnerships, and initiatives that drive measurable impact across multiple sites.
A trailblazer in American politics, Precious is the first openly Black transgender woman elected to public office in Cook County. She serves as a Commissioner at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, elected by over one million voters. In this role, she champions clean water access, environmental justice, and the protection of Lake Michigan—drinking water source for more than five million people.
Precious began her nonprofit career at Center on Halsted as Youth Outreach Coordinator, where she launched a $1.6 million CDC-funded initiative reaching more than 3,000 African American and Latinx LGBTQ+ youth with HIV prevention, education, and leadership programming. She went on to lead diversity recruitment and policy initiatives as Assistant Director at Columbia College Chicago, advancing inclusive excellence across higher education.
She later held multiple senior roles at the Sierra Club, including Associate Regional Communications Director. Her work spanned national campaigns promoting renewable energy, environmental justice, and corporate accountability, crafting communications strategies that mobilized grassroots action and influenced federal policy.
With over a decade of experience at the intersection of racial, gender, and environmental justice, Precious Brady-Davis brings authenticity, vision, and impact to every table she joins. Her dynamic career has included collaborations with global figures such as President Joe Biden, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, HBO, and MAC Cosmetics. As a sought-after speaker, she has delivered powerful talks at leading institutions including the University of Cambridge, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, Hampshire College, Reed College, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Precious’s journey reflects an unwavering commitment to equity, systems change, and the transformative power of storytelling.
Precious resides in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood with her husband, Myles Brady-Davis, and their two daughters, Zayn and Zyon.
She is proud to lead with purpose, courage, and spirit.
Aisha Davis
Senior Policy Counsel, ACLU Illinois
Aisha Davis (she/her) is an attorney by training and has dedicated her legal career to civil rights and human rights advocacy. Aisha and has worked in policy and advocacy both domestically and internationally, and currently serves as senior policy counsel at the ACLU of IL. In this role, she focuses on LGBTQ+ rights and policing in the State of Illinois.
Although she calls Chicago home, Aisha was born and raised in the Washington, DC area. Growing up near the nation’s capitol inspired Aisha‘s passion for advocacy, and her family’s influence sparked her desire to use her voice alongside her communities.
She obtained her JD from Columbia Law School and LLM from the University of London in Human Rights, Conflict, and Justice, completing the degree program with a dissertation on intersectionality and international human rights. Outside of her work in advocacy, Aisha enjoys Black speculative fiction and most things nerdy.
Antonio King
Director of LGBTQ+ Affairs, City of Chicago
Antonio King (he/his) is a longtime public health advocate, community leader, and civil rights champion serving as the City of Chicago’s first-ever Director of LGBTQ+ Affairs. Appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, King leads the city’s efforts to advance equity, inclusion, and opportunity for LGBTQ+ Chicagoans through policy development, interdepartmental collaboration, and community engagement.
With more than two decades of service at the Chicago Department of Public Health, King previously served as the department’s LGBTQ+ Health and Outreach Liaison, where he became widely recognized for his work in HIV/AIDS awareness, health equity, youth advocacy, and outreach to underserved communities. A respected voice in Chicago’s LGBTQ+ community, he has dedicated his career to addressing disparities in healthcare, housing, safety, and economic opportunity while amplifying the voices of Black LGBTQ+ residents and other marginalized populations.
King is also a founding member of the Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus and has worked alongside numerous community organizations, including Howard Brown Health and TaskForce Prevention and Community Services. His leadership and advocacy earned him induction into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2024.
As Director of LGBTQ+ Affairs, King is focused on strengthening protections and resources for LGBTQ+ youth, older adults, transgender and nonbinary residents, and LGBTQ+-owned businesses throughout Chicago. His work reflects a lifelong commitment to building a safer, healthier, and more inclusive city for all.
Nathan Maxwell
Senior Attorney, Lambda Legal Midwest Office
Nathan Maxwell (he/his) is a Senior Attorney at Lambda Legal’s Midwest Regional Office, based in Chicago, IL. He is the lead attorney in Iowa Safe Schools v. Reynolds, in which Lambda Legal—along with ACLU of Iowa and Jenner & Block LLP—is challenging SF 496, a sweeping Iowa law that seeks to erase any recognition of LGBTQ+ people from public schools, ban books with sexual or LGBTQ+ content, and forcibly out trans or nonbinary students.
Before joining the team at Lambda Legal, Nathan was an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Federal Public Defender in the District of Arizona. Nathan worked in the Capital Habeas Unit, representing people on death row in Arizona, Utah, and Texas in habeas, clemency, and end stage litigation. Nathan clerked for Judge Terrence Berg in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and for Judge Amy Totenberg in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Before clerking, Nathan was the Justice Franklin D. Cleckley Fellow for the West Virginia Innocence Project at the West Virginia University College of Law, where he represented wrongly convicted people in prisons in West Virginia and Mississippi, supervised law students in the legal aid clinic, and co-taught a law school seminar on habeas corpus.
Nathan Maxwell is a 2016 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he was awarded the 2016 James C. Hormel Public Service Award. Nathan also completed the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy from the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice (formerly the School of Social Service Administration).
Prior to law school, received a Bachelor of Science in Human Health Studies from Arizona State University in 2008. Nathan worked as an outreach specialist at the Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS, as a case manager for adults living with serious mental illnesses, and as the coordinator for a program seeking to improve physical health outcomes for adults living with serious mental illnesses and chronic diseases.
Nathan is admitted to the State Bar of Arizona and Illinois.
Lamont Robinson
Alderman, Chicago’s 4th Ward
Lamont Robinson (he/his) is a lifelong Chicagoan who has dedicated his life to giving back to the city through public service, business, education, and youth mentorship. He is an accomplished businessman and holds an undergraduate degree in business marketing from Clark Atlanta University and an MBA from National Louis University. He has owned and operated The Robinson & Caban Insurance Group and served as a business professor at Harold Washington College. He also directed the Kappa Leadership Institute, a program that prepares young men for success in college and beyond.
Since 2018, Alderman Robinson has also served as the State Representative for the 5th district, where he has proven himself to be a tireless advocate for his constituents. He has worked hard to secure funding for critical infrastructure projects and social services, and his experience at the state level has given him a deep understanding of how government works.
Now, as the Alderman of the 4th Ward, Alderman Robinson is committed to leveraging his experience to build a better Chicago for all residents.
Marcell Taylor
Moderator
This Pride CLE is Graciously Sponsored by:
Hinshaw & Culbertson
LAGBAC – Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association
The LGBTQ Section of the Cook County Bar Association
The Alliance of Illinois Judges (AIJ)
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The LGBTQIA+ Committee of the Chicago Bar Association
