
Richard J. Durbin
In Office
Reveal Party
Richard J. Durbin is a U.S. Senator from Illinois, born in East St. Louis in 1944. He graduated from Georgetown University and its Law Center, practicing law in Springfield. Durbin served as legal counsel to the Illinois Lieutenant Governor and State Senate judiciary committee before being elected to Congress in 1982 and the Senate in 1996, where he has been reelected multiple times and currently serves as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.