David Hoffman (D), a former Assistant U.S. Attorney to Northern District of Illinois U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, has joined Sidley Austin LLP as a partner in the firm’s litigation group in Chicago.
Last year, Hoffman ran for and lost the Democratic nomination to succeed Sen. Roland Burris (D) in President Obama’s former Senate seat. The seat eventually was won by Sen. Mark Kirk (R).
David Hoffman (Hoffman for Senate)
Hoffman was most recently the inspector general for the City of Chicago. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney from 1998 to 2005, and Fitzgerald appointed him deputy chief of the office’s narcotics and gangs section. Hoffman also was leader of the office’s Project Safe Neighborhoods anti-gun violence program. In early 2010, Gov. Pat Quinn (D) appointed Hoffman to the Illinois Reform Commission, which was tasked with recommending public reforms after the Blagojevich embarrassment.
Hoffman clerked for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Dennis G. Jacobs, both appointed by Republican presidents. Hoffman graduated from Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School, where he was articles editor of the law review.
