The Hon. Veronica Armouti is an associate judge for the 3rd Judicial Circuit Court in Illinois. She was appointed to the bench by the judges of the 3rd Judicial Circuit on August 30, 2019.
The 3rd Judicial Circuit includes Madison County and Bond County.
Prior to her appointment, Armouti was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Senala Group, a startup company tasked with developing a non-chemical pest deterrent. She supplemented her life as an entrepreneur with work as a contract attorney at Robert Half & Epic (2015 to 2019).
Armouti earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology (1985) and a master’s degree in policy analysis (1987) from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She spent the next several years working as a claim specialist for American Family Insurance (1991 to 1994) and State Farm Insurance (1994 to 1999) before completing a J.D. at Saint Louis University School of Law in 1997.
After graduating from law school, Armouti entered into private practice, working as an attorney at HeplerBroom. Then, in 2004, she joined Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard. She represented healthcare institutions in negligence, wrongful death, nursing home litigation, medical malpractice, regulatory, and personal injury matters.
Her memberships have included the Illinois State Bar Association, the Missouri Bar Association, and the Chairman Chapman Society. She also sat on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Judges Association, the Board of Nursing of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, and the City of Edwardsville Plan Commission.
Raised in Madison and Alton, Armouti eventually settled in Edwardsville, Illinois.