Jorge Luis Alonso

Jorge Luis Alonso (born April 1966) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and former Illinois state judge. Biography Alonso was born in 1966 in Sagua La Grande, Las Villas, Cuba. He went to Loyola High School in Miami, Fl. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988 from the University of Miami. He received a Juris Doctor in 1991 from the George Washington University Law School. He served as an assistant public defender in the Office of the Cook County Public Defender from 1991 to 2003, where he represented indigent individuals in both civil and criminal proceedings. From 2003 to 2014, he served as an associate judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, a state trial court of general jurisdiction. Federal judicial service