Lisa Madigan has been the 41st Attorney General

Illinois Attorney General

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 of the US state of Illinois

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 since 2003, when she became the first female attorney general for Illinois. She is a Democrat

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 and the daughter of Michael Madigan

Michael Madigan

Michael J. Madigan is the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and Chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois...

, who has been Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives

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 for most of the last quarter century.

On December 12, 2008, she attracted national attention after filing a motion with the Supreme Court of Illinois

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 to temporarily remove Governor Rod Blagojevich

Rod Blagojevich

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 from office. The motion was subsequently denied by the court without a hearing.
Madigan attended The Latin School of Chicago

The Latin School of Chicago

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 for her secondary education, and received her bachelor's degree from Georgetown University

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 in 1988.