Nov. 30 – Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Hon. Edmund Ponce de Leon (JD ’84) featured:
Ponce de Leon, 58, worked as a Chicago police officer in Humboldt Park and parts of Logan Square after he graduated from Northeastern Illinois University. He earned a law degree at The John Marshall Law School in 1984 and worked for 12 years at small firms and as a sole practitioner.
Elected as a circuit judge on the Cook County bench in 1996, Ponce de Leon started in the Domestic Relations Division. He moved to the Law Division in 2001 and became the presiding judge of the 4th Municipal District in Maywood in 2002.