Mr. Richard J. Durbin

• Party: Democratic
• State: IL
• Chamber: Senate
• Term: 2025 – Present
• Phone: (202) 224-2152
• Office: 711 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510
• Website: durbin.senate.gov
• Biography:
  — Senator and a Representative from Illinois.
  — Born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill., November 21, 1944.
  — Graduated from Assumption High School, East St. Louis 1962.
  — B.S., Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC 1966.
  — Intern in the office of Illinois Senator Paul Douglas during his senior year in college.
  — J.D., Georgetown University Law Center 1969.
  — Admitted to the Illinois bar 1969, and commenced practice in Springfield.
  — Legal counsel to Illinois Lieutenant Governor Paul Simon 1969-1972.
  — Legal counsel, Illinois State senate judiciary committee 1972-1982.
  — Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Illinois 1978.
  — Associate professor, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield 1978-1983.
  — Delegate, Democratic National Conventions 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996.
  — Chairman of Illinois state delegation in 1996.
  — Elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 2, 1997).
  — Elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1996.
  — Reelected in 2002, 2008, 2014, and again in 2020 for the term ending January 3, 2027.
  — Democratic party whip (2005-).
  — Chair, Committee on the Judiciary (One Hundred Seventeenth and One Hundred Eighteenth Congresses).
  
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