Julie Justicz currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer, helping Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights to design, implement and support innovative projects that promote racial justice and economic opportunity. Julie works closely with all our foundation partners, developing and maintaining external relations, managing grants, and ensuring compliance with funding requirements.

Prior to joining Chicago Lawyers' Committee, Julie worked as an independent consultant, assisting a wide range of nonprofit organizations in the greater Chicagoland area. Previously, Julie was Director of Program Development at Health & Disability Advocates, Director of the Children’s SSI Project at the American Bar Association, Executive Director of the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago, and a staff attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago. After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School in 1988, Julie completed a two-year clerkship for a United States District Court Judge in Atlanta, Georgia.

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You can contact Julie Justicz at jjusticz@clccrul.org.