Thomas
P. Sullivan is a partner with the Chicago law firm of Jenner &
Block, where he has practiced law for most of the past 50 years, specializing
in trials and appeals of civil and criminal cases, internal investigations,
arbitration and mediation. From 1977 to 1981, he served as U.S. attorney
for the Northern District of Illinois.
Mr. Sullivan is an author and speaker on subjects relating to trials and appeals, criminal justice reform and police investigative procedures. He has chaired the Northwestern University Law School’s Center on Wrongful Convictions Advisory Board since 2004, and the Illinois Capital Punishment Reform Study Committee since last year.
Among Mr. Sullivan’s numerous professional activities, he is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a member of the Board of Directors of the Constitutional Rights Foundation of Chicago, and served as co-chair of the Illinois Governor’s Commission on Capital Punishment in 2000-2002. He has received the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the American Judicature Society’s Justice Award, among many other accolades.
A graduate of Loyola University School of Law, Mr. Sullivan served in the U.S. Army in Korea before beginning his practice of law in 1954.
