Hon. Monique O’Toole is a circuit judge for the 18th Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois in DuPage County. She was appointed to the bench in 2019.
O’Toole has held an assignment in the Misdemeanor Division.
Prior to her appointment, O’Toole was working as an assistant state’s attorney assigned to the Child Support Enforcement Unit with the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office. It was her second stint with the office. O’Toole had previously served as a law clerk there while in law school and joined the office as an assistant state’s attorney after graduating.
In between her work as a prosecutor, she spent time as an assistant attorney general with the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, where she held assignments in the Civil Appeals Bureau and the Health Care Consumer Fraud Bureau. O’Toole then entered into private practice, remaining in that capacity for ten years until eventually returning to the county’s State’s Attorney’s Office.
She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado in 1989. O’Toole went on to complete a J.D. at the John Marshall School of Law (now the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law) (1992) and an LL.M. in health care law at Loyola University, Chicago School of Law (1997).
She was raised in Hinsdale, Illinois. O’Toole and her husband, Paul, have one son. Away from the bench, she enjoys reading, knitting, running, yoga, tennis, and helping dogs as a volunteer at the Hinsdale Humane Society.
At the time of her appointment, O’Toole resided in Clarendon Hills, Illinois.
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