Illinois attorney concluding service in Clinton campaign

By Stephen Anderson

An article in the July Bar News (page 11) about Illinois lawyers who were involved in the Lincoln-Douglas campaigns of 1858 and 1860, piqued the interest of ISBA member Anna Beata Dudek of Arlington, Va.

"I thought you might be interested in knowing that there are current ISBA members following in the footsteps of Melville Weston Fuller and Edwin C. Larned," she wrote.

Dudek, a 2002 graduate of the Vanderbilt University Law School, is gradually concluding her responsibilities as deputy counsel of the Hillary Clinton for President campaign.

Dudek, who hails from Palatine, lived in Chicago while working on the campaign of Jan Schakowsky for Congress in 1997, and later in Champaign while studying for the bar examination.

Hillary Clinton, also an attorney who was raised in Chicago's northwest suburbs, is an honorary member of the ISBA.

Before Dudek joined the Clinton organization in April 2007, she was assistant regional counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency in Seattle and for the Army Corps of Engineers in Seattle and Huntsville, Ala.

"For the time being, I am still with the campaign, assisting in the wind down and transition," she said. "The next step is still in development."

Another attorney with Illinois ties, Sarah Elizabeth Venuto, is assistant counsel to the Clinton campaign. A graduate of the Catholic University Law School in Washington, D.C., she was admitted to the Illinois bar this year.

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