Judge LaShonda A. Hunt was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on May 4, 2023. She previously served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, a role she had from 2017. She previously served as General Counsel for the Illinois Department of Central Management Services in 2016. Hunt served as a law clerk for Judge William Hibbler in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 2001 to 2003. Hunt received her J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1995, and her B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992.