Richard F. Pellegrino has enjoyed a 30–year career as a trial lawyer in the Chicago area, concentrating primarily in personal injury representation.
His extensive public service includes:
- Board member, Pace Transportation Service
- Executive Director, West Central Municipal Conference, an association of 36 municipalities in West Suburban Chicagoland
- Executive Director, West Cook County Solid Waste Agency
- Mayor, Village of Indian Head Park (1999 – 2007)
- Past Commissioner, Cook County Sheriff’s Police and Corrections Merit Board
- Advisory Member, Triton College Finance Committee
- Adjunct Instructor, Nazareth Academy
- Former Commissioner, Illinois Supreme Court ARDC Inquiry Board
- Active memberships: American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, Justinian Society of Lawyers, National Italian–American Bar Association
Armed Services:
- Sergeant, U.S. Army, honorably discharged on March 21, 1972
- Army Commendation Medical for meritorious service in Vietnam, 1972
Bar Admissions
- Illinois, 1979
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1979
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1981
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1982
Education
- Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas
- J.D. – 1978
- Loyola University
- M.A. – 1975
- Loyola University
- B.A. – 1985
