Jack Etchingham Named Chicago-Kent College of Law Valedictorian

Jack Etchingham is this year's valedictorian at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Etchingham grew up in Arlington Heights and is a graduate of Saint Viator High School.

Etchingham graduated with high honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in finance. During his time at Chicago-Kent College of Law, he externed for a federal court judge, clerked for the United States Attorney's Office and the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, and served as a teaching assistant for a 1L Torts section and an Appellate Advocacy course. Jack also played an active role in a variety of student organizations, including the Chicago-Kent Law Review, Moot Court Honor Society, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Society, and Kent Justice Foundation. As a member of the Moot Court Honor Society, he won the 2018 Ilana Diamond Rovner Appellate Advocacy Competition, and his team received the award for Second Best Brief in the Brooklyn Region at the 2019 American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition. Jack has worked as a Public Interest Law Initiative Graduate Fellow at Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO) this spring. Next month, he will join Sidley Austin LLP as a litigation associate.

Read more about Jack's law school journey here: https://www.iit.edu/news/increasing-access-justice.