Board Member
Since July 2015, Carrie has served as a Judge on the Circuit Court of Cook County. Currently, Carrie hears civil matters at the Markham Courthouse.
Prior to becoming a judge, Carrie served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago for over 14 years. During her tenure as a federal prosecutor, Carrie served as a Deputy Chief in the Public Corruption Section. She was one of the lead prosecutors on the corruption trials of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, for which she received the United States Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service and the FBI Director’s Award for Outstanding Criminal Investigation.
While at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Carrie helped start a federal program combating prostitution of minors and served as the coordinator for federal programs related to child exploitation, child prostitution, human trafficking and violence against women. For her substantial work combating child exploitation and child prostitution, she won the Cook County Crime Stoppers, Excellence in Law Enforcement Award and the United States Postal Inspection Service, Inspector-In-Charge Award.
Carrie serves as an adjunct professor at the Northwestern University School of Law, teaching a seminar in Human Trafficking and the Trial Advocacy Program and served as a trial advocacy instructor at the Department of Justice’s National Advocacy Center.