2025 BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPOTLIGHT:

Antonio Lee

Antonio Lee is the President Elect of the Cook County Bar Association, Chair of the LGBTQ Division of the National Bar Association, Chief-of-Staff to the President of the National Bar Association, General Assembly Member of the Illinois State Bar Association, and recently appointed Commissioner of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.

Aside from his local and national leadership positions, Mr. Lee serves as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana at the U.S. Department of Justice. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Lee was an Assistant State’s Attorney at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO), where he handled all aspects of civil litigation for torts and civil rights cases in state, appellate, and federal court.

Prior to working at the CCSAO, Mr. Lee was selected into the prestigious U.S. Presidential Management Fellows program, where he exclusively focused on civil rights cases at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and U.S. Department of Justice – Community Relations Service. In his spare diversity in the legal profession. Mr. Lee is a licensed attorney in Georgia, Illinois, and the District of Columbia.