Dinah L. Archambeault

Of Counsel
Areas of Practice

Appellate Practice

Mediation

Bar Admission

Illinois 1988

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois 1989

U.S. Federal Court of Claims 1990

U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit 1991

U.S. Supreme Court 1992

U.S. District Court, Central District 2003

Education

Duke University School of Law, Master of Laws, Judicial Studies 2018

The John Marshall Law School, Juris Doctor with Distinction 1988

Lewis University, Bachelor of Arts 1974

Professional Associations & Memberships

Illinois State Bar Association

Will County Bar Association, past president and board member

Will County Women’s Bar Association

Illinois Judges Association

Community Service

Twelfth Circuit Summer Extern Program, founder and past chair, current Steering Committee Member

Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice Family Law Forms Subcommittee, member

Accolades

Certificate of Appreciation, Supreme Court of Illinois Judicial College 2023

Distinguished Service Award, The John Marshall Law School Alumni Association 2015

Women of the Year, Zonta Club of the Joliet Area 2007

Athena, Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry 2003

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Meet Dinah L. Archambeault

Dinah Lennon Archambeault joined Reich, Jumbeck, Stole & Reeb after having served as a judge in the domestic relations division of the Circuit Court of Will County between 2007 and 2022. In 2007 she was appointed Associate Judge and in 2021 the Illinois Supreme Court appointed her to serve as a Circuit Judge. While on the bench she was assigned to the family call, where she presided for almost 16 years over cases involving domestic relations. Prior to taking the bench Archambeault handled cases involving civil litigation in both the trial and appellate courts. Having grown up in Joliet and graduating from St. Francis Academy and Lewis University, she was active in the community, serving on the Board of the Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce as a member and vice chair, as a member and chair of the Council of Working Women, as a Board member and President of the Zonta Club of the Joliet Area, as a Board Member of Joliet Junior College Foundation Board, and as a Board member of Catholic Charites. After taking the bench, Archambeault refocused her involvement, serving as a Board Member and president of the Will County Bar Association, serving on the Illinois Supreme Court College of Judicial Education  as a member and twice as co-chair of the Family Track for the Judicial Education Conference, serving as a member and chair of the Civil Litigation Committee,  co-founding the Will County Justice Access Corp program, and founding the Will County Summer Extern Program. Archambeault is a certified mediator and available for consultation for appeals.

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