David H. Hoffman

David H. Hoffman (born May 22, 1967) is a former federal prosecutor and was Chicago's inspector general. Hoffman ran for the Illinois seat of the U.S. Senate in 2010 but lost to Alexi Giannoulias in the Democratic primary.

Hoffman was raised in northern suburban Chicago by parents of Jewish and Puerto Rican descent. Hoffman graduated from New Trier High School in 1984. He graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in History in from Yale University in 1988 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1995 where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review and Head of the University of Chicago Law School Democrats. Hoffman was awarded the University’s President's Award for Volunteer Service for founding Neighbors, a neighborhood-based community service program. Hoffman lives in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago with his wife, Monique, from Downstate Alton, Illinois. They have a two-year-old son, Grayson, two dogs, and two cats. The Hoffmans are avid Chicago sports fans. Hoffman is an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he teaches Public Corruption and the Law.

After graduating from Yale, Hoffman spent three years working on Capitol Hill, where he served as Press Secretary and legislative assistant for foreign policy to U.S. Congressman David Boren (D-OK).

After his graduation from Law School, Hoffman served as a law clerk for Judge Dennis G. Jacobs, Hoffman also clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Hoffman, in response to questions about his experience clerking for conservative jurists has been quoted as saying, “If you’re lucky enough in Law School to be in a position to apply for a supreme court clerkship what the law professors will tell you is that you apply to all nine. Because it’s really an honor to clerk on the Supreme Court no matter who you clerk for. And you really can’t tell anything about someone’s ideology by who they clerk for… Judge Richard Posner, on the Appellate Court, who’s widely considered a conservative judge. He clerked for Justice Brennan, one of the great liberal Justices".

Hoffman served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago from 1998–2005, and was appointed Deputy Chief of the Narcotics and Gangs Section by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. In this post, he led a newly created gang unit, supervised all federal gang investigations and prosecutions, and helped create a new federal-local gang investigation strategy that Justice Department officials used to train gang investigators around the country. He also served as co-leader of the office’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) anti-gun violence program, which helped reduce gun violence in some of Chicago’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods. Hoffman was one of the leaders in creating and running a highly praised program in which law enforcement and community organizations worked together in high-crime neighborhoods to persuade felons convicted of gun crimes not to carry guns. While an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Hoffman investigated and prosecuted all types of federal crimes, including drug trafficking and money-laundering cases against street gangs and international drug cartels, and white-collar crimes including health care fraud, bank fraud, and tax fraud. He received the Director’s Award in 2002 for his prosecution of 48 defendants who “rented” babies to smuggle liquid cocaine in baby-formula cans from Panama to Chicago and other cities.

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