Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz

Asain Caucus Whip
(D-Glenview)
17th District
Rep Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz

Springfield Office:
248-W Stratton Office Building
Springfield, IL 62706
(217) 782-4194

District Office:
1812 Waukegan Road, Suite B
Glenview, IL 60025
(847) 486-8810

104th General Assembly
Bills & Committees
Biography
Full-time legislator; human rights attorney; B.A., Indiana University, J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law, L.L.M, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; former litigation attorney at Winston and Strawn; founding member and co-chair of the Illinois Unaccompanied Children’s Task Force; former Director of the Highland Park – Highwood Legal Aid Clinic; former board member of the Glenview Education Foundation; lives in Glenview with her husband and three sons.
State Rep. Gong-Gershowitz: ‘Birthright Citizenship Ruling Reaffirms a Promise My Own Family Depended On’

State Rep. Gong-Gershowitz: ‘Birthright Citizenship Ruling Reaffirms a Promise My Own Family Depended On’

GLENVIEW, Ill. —  State Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (D-Glenview) released the following statement today following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, rejecting President Trump’s executive order that sought to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the United States to immigrant parents: