About Elizabeth Monkus

Elizabeth Monkus (she/her) is the Senior Attorney & Project Director for Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts. Elizabeth came to Chicago Appleseed in 2010 to manage the Judicial Performance Commission Demonstration project. She currently focuses on domestic relations and judicial elections in her program work.

Early Resolution Program in Domestic Relations Courts: Survey & CLE

Chicago Appleseed and Chicago Council of Lawyers had the pleasure of working with some fine interns this summer. Two of them—Amelia Piazza from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and Melanie Yeames of University at Chicago Law School—did a preliminary survey of the new Early Resolution P...
October 7, 2019

Support for the License to Work Act

Statement from the Transit Table 7/23/2019 “Mayor Lightfoot’s commitment to support the License to Work Act is a long-awaited, strong first step in transforming Chicago’s inequitable vehicle ticketing system, as is the ordinance she proposed with City Clerk Anna Valencia. For years, the Transit Ta...
July 23, 2019

Give $50 for 50

Our Presidents’ Circle of donors celebrates the collaboration for justice between the Chicago Council of Lawyers and the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice. With a tax deductible donation to our Presidents’ Circle $50 for 50 campaign, you can sustain our court reform work for another 50 years. Ch...
June 21, 2019
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