Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker will speak at ABA Annual Meeting

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker will communicate at ABA Annual Assembly

By Amanda Robert

July 26, 2024, 10:30 am CDT

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker—a possible operating mate for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign—will tackle the ABA Home of Delegates on the ABA Annual Assembly in Chicago.

Pritzker, who was elected the forty third governor of Illinois in 2018 and reelected in 2022, will communicate to the Home at 9 a.m. Aug. 5, the ABA introduced on Friday. A member of the ABA, he earned his legislation diploma from Northwestern College in 1993. He’s additionally a outstanding enterprise chief and philanthropist in Chicago.

President Joe Biden introduced on Sunday that he’d determined to exit the 2024 presidential race and endorse Harris for the Democratic nomination. Pritzker is reportedly considered one of a number of state governors being vetted as a attainable operating mate for Harris.

Observe together with the ABA Journal’s protection of the 2024 ABA Annual Assembly right here.

The Home, the affiliation’s policymaking physique, meets throughout the ABA’s annual and midyear conferences to debate and debate issues of significance to the authorized career and society. Current previous audio system to handle the Home at its assemblies embrace U.S. Lawyer Normal Merrick Garland and now-retired U.S. Supreme Court docket Justice Stephen Breyer. At this yr’s annual assembly, its members will convene Aug. 5-6 to contemplate greater than three dozen resolutions and amendments.

The ABA Annual Assembly runs July 31 to Aug. 6 on the Hyatt Regency and different places in downtown Chicago.