Dorothy A. Brown (politician)
| Dorothy A. Brown | |
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| Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County | |
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Assumed office December 1, 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Aurelia Pucinski |
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September 4, 1953 Minden, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Benton Cook (m. 2009) |
| Children | One |
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois |
| Alma mater | Southern University (B.S.) DePaul University (M.B.A.) Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D.) |
| Profession | Certified Public Accountant |
Dorothy A. Brown (born September 4, 1953) is an American politician and lawyer. Brown currently serves as the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County in the First Judicial District of Illinois.
Brown grew up in Minden, Louisiana, one of eight children. Her father worked in the laundry room of the Louisiana Army Ammunitions Plant near Minden. He also owned a cotton farm in Athens, Louisiana, where Brown and her seven siblings helped him pick and chop cotton. Brown's mother worked as a cook and a domestic.
At Webster High School, Brown was captain of the girl's varsity basketball team, and graduated in the top ten percent of her class. Brown entered college in 1971 at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She graduated Magna cum Laude from Southern University in 1975. In 1977, Brown received her license as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). In 1981, she received her Master in Business Administration (MBA) with honors from DePaul University in Chicago. In 1996, Brown received her law degree with honors from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Brown worked for Arthur Andersen and Commonwealth Edison as a certified public accountant. She also helped to start a minority public accounting firm. From 1991 to 2000, Brown was employed as the General Auditor for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA).
Brown unsuccessfully ran for Treasurer of the City of Chicago in 1999, Mayor of Chicago in 2007 and President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 2010.
Brown was elected as the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, in 2000, and has been reelected to three additional terms in office by overwhelming margins of votes. As the official keeper of recorders for all judicial matters brought into one of the largest unified court systems in the world, Brown is responsible for managing an annual operating budget of more than $100 million and has a workforce of over 1,800 employees. The Clerk's office was described as "a 2,300-employee office, one of the last true bastions of political patronage in Illinois" by the Chicago Sun-Times in 2014.
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