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Patrick Kenneally brings nearly a decade of legal experience to his position as an Assistant State’s Attorney in McHenry County, Illinois. Holding this position since 2007, Kenneally prosecutes an array of high-profile felony and misdemeanor cases, including narcotics, sexual assault, white-collar crimes, domestic battery, and DUI. He has conducted a litany of court hearings and tried more than 100 trials. In 2007, Patrick Kenneally wrote a piece for the Northern Illinois University Law Review titled “Protecting Court Borders: Fencing Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB Out of Illinois Civil Courts,” which criticized a decision by the Supreme Court that restricted the ability of the National Labor Relations Board to award back pay. Kenneally is also recognized as a leading advocate for domestic violence victims and garnered the Peace and Justice Award from Turning Point in 2009. Prior to joining the State’s Attorney in McHenry County, Patrick Kenneally served as the Law Clerk for the Honorable William D. Maddux in the Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago. In this position, Kenneally assisted the Judge in preparing for cases and with various civil matters. He also wrote the law clerk manual and performed essential duties for judges in the Law Division during trial. An alumnus of the Washington University School of Law, Patrick Kenneally graduated with a Juris Doctor. While there, he served as a Student Lawyer in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, where he and three other students helped nonprofit groups create a brief for the Missouri Supreme Court that outlined environmental controls for a new cement plant. Kenneally spent his summers in Chicago working as a Law Clerk for various organizations, including the Cook County Public Defender, the Center for Disability and Elder Law, and the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.
