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2021 Commencement Video

  • May 16, 2021
  • Illinois Attorney General Kwame Y. Raoul delivered the keynote address.

2020 Commencement Video

  • May 17, 2020
  • Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Anne M. Burke delivered the keynote address.

2019 Commencement Video

  • May 19, 2019
  • Michael P. Galvin, president of Galvin Enterprises, Inc., delivered the keynote address.

2018 Commencement Video

  • May 13, 2018
  • The Honorable Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi ’92 of the New Hampshire Supreme Court delivered the keynote address.

2017 Commencement Video

  • May 14, 2017
  • OneWeb founder Greg Wyler ’96 delivered the keynote address.

2016 Commencement Video: English | Mandarin

  • May 15, 2016
  • Cook County Public Defender Amy Campanelli ’87 delivered the keynote address.

2015 Commencement Video

  • May 17, 2015
  • Chicago Federation of Labor President Jorge Ramirez ’97 delivered the keynote address.

2014 Commencement Video

  • May 18, 2014
  • Illinois State Senator Kwame Raoul ’93 delivered the keynote address.

2013 Commencement Video

  • May 19, 2013
  • Scott Turow, Attorney and Author, delivered the keynote address.

2012 Commencement Video

  • May 13, 2012
  • Her Royal Highness (HRH) Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand, and Laurel Bellows, president-elect of the American Bar Association, delivered commencement addresses.

2011 Commencement Video

  • May 15, 2011
  • Anita Alvarez ’86, Cook County State's Attorney delivered the alumni keynote.

2010 Commencement Video

  • May 16, 2010
  • Craig Donohue, LL.M. ’89, CEO of the CME Group, delivered the alumni keynote and U.S. Senator Richard J. Durbin gave the commencement address.

2009 Commencement Video

  • May 17, 2009
  • William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, delivered the commencement address.

2008 Commencement Video

  • May 18, 2008
  • The Honorable Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General, delivered the commencement address.

2007 Commencement Video

  • May 20, 2007
  • The Honorable Anne M. Burke ’83, Illinois Supreme Court Justice, delivered the commencement address.

2006 Commencement Video

  • May 21, 2006
  • Bill Kurtis, journalist, delivered the commencement address.

2005 Commencement Video

  • May 22, 2005
  • Thomas A. Demetrio ’73, attorney with the Chicago law firm of Corboy & Demetrio, delivered the commencement address.

2004 Commencement Video

  • May 23, 2004
  • The Honorable Diane P. Wood, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, delivered the commencement address.

2003 Commencement Video  

  • May 25, 2003

Illinois State Senator Barack Obama delivered the commencement address.