Rob Warden (Photo: Jennifer Linzer)
Executive Director Rob Warden is an award winning legal affairs journalist who, as editor and publisher of Chicago Lawyer magazine during the 1980's exposed more than a score of wrongful convictions in Illinois, including cases in which six innocent men had been sentenced to death.
Before founding Chicago Lawyer in 1978, Mr. Warden was an investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor at the Chicago Daily News. Since the Chicago Lawyer changed ownership in 1989, Mr. Warden has worked as a political issues consultant, executive officer of the Cook County State’s Attorney's Office, and consultant to various law firms and the litigation department of General Electric Medical Systems.
Mr. Warden is the author or co-author of hundreds of articles and five books, including two books about wrongful convictions written in collaboration with Northwestern University Journalism Professor David Protess - A Promise of Justice - (Hyperion, 1998) and Gone in the Night (Delacorte, 1993).
Mr. Warden has won more than 50 journalism awards, including the Medill School of Journalism’s John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, two American Civil Liberties Union James McGuire Awards, five Peter Lisagor Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Norval Morris Award from the Illinois Academy of Criminology.
