Kim Foxx

Kim Foxx
Cook County State's Attorney
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 1, 2016
Preceded byAnita Alvarez
Personal details
Born (1972-04-09) April 9, 1972 (age 52)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Kelley Foxx
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(m. 2001)​
Children4
EducationSouthern Illinois University (BA, JD)

Kimberly M. Foxx (née Anderson;[1] born April 9, 1972) is an American politician, who is currently the State's Attorney (district attorney) for Cook County, Illinois. She manages the second largest prosecutor's office in the United States, consisting of approximately 700 attorneys and 1,100 employees.[2] In 2016, she won the Democratic nomination for State's Attorney against incumbent Anita Alvarez and went on to win the general election. She was re-elected in 2020. In 2023, she announced that she would not run for re-election in 2024.[3]

Foxx ran for the State's Attorney's office on a platform of criminal justice reform, and has often been termed a "reformist", "reform-minded", or "progressive" prosecutor alongside others such as Larry Krasner, Rachael Rollins, Chesa Boudin, Aramis Ayala, Kimberly Gardner, Diana Becton, and Satana Deberry.[4][5][6][7][8][9] She is the second African American, after Cecil A. Partee, to hold this position.[10]

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  2. ^ "About the Cook County State's Attorney's Office". Cook County State's Attorney. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  3. ^ Hill, Tonia; Daley, Jim (April 25, 2023). "Kim Foxx blazed a trail of progressive reforms in the State's Attorney's Office". The TRiiBE. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
  4. ^ Weigel, Dave (September 5, 2018). "Down the ballot, liberal reformers take over the criminal justice system". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
  5. ^ Cohen, Andrew (June 19, 2019). "Reformist Prosecutors Face Unprecedented Resistance From Within". Brennan Center for Justice. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
  6. ^ Gutman, Abraham (January 15, 2020). "7 questions with Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx on criminal justice reform | Opinion". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
  7. ^ Jackman, Tom (July 17, 2019). "In some big cities, reform-minded prosecutors and police chiefs have been at odds. Here's what happened when they met in D.C." The Washington Post. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
  8. ^ Becton, Diana; Deberry, Satana; Gardner, Kim; Foxx, Kim; Rollins, Rachael (August 25, 2020). "Prosecutors Are Not Exempt from Criticism". Politico. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  9. ^ Nichanian, Daniel; Simonton, Anna (November 5, 2020). "How criminal justice reform fared at the ballot box on Tuesday". The Appeal: Political Report. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  10. ^ "Kim Foxx sworn in as Cook County State's Attorney". ABC7 Chicago. December 1, 2016. Retrieved March 28, 2019.