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Justin Hanson is a write-in candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for the Third District of Illinois. He is a native of Chicago’s southwest suburbs. Justin was born in Berwyn. He lived in Hickory Hills during his earliest years before his family relocated to Palos Hills. Justin attended St. Patricia School in Hickory Hills for his elementary education. As a child, Justin spent much of his time in the neighborhoods of Bridgeview, Oak Lawn, and Lemont. He attended Nazareth Academy in La Grange Park for high school. Justin graduated from Marquette University in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science.

Justin's professional experience spans the legal and political worlds, though the roots of his work ethic can be found in the construction sites of the Southwest Suburbs. One of Justin's first jobs was at the age of 14 in a Bridgeview brickyard, where he stacked brick, swept warehouses, and unloaded train boxcars of brick. He also delivered copies of the XXXXX paper on a newspaper route shared with a childhood friend. As a high school student with an interest in science, he conducted laboratory experiments researching the strength of differing formulas for concrete. During college at Marquette, he worked as a bartender in Milwaukee.

After graduating from Marquette, he moved to Washington, DC, where he first completed an internship and worked as a staff assistant for then-Missouri Representative and House Republican Whip Roy Blunt. He then worked as a policy analyst for the House Republican Conference, publishing a daily summary and analysis of legislation scheduled for consideration on the floor of the House of Representatives, for distribution to members of Congress and their staffs. He met his wife, Lindsay, while working on Capitol Hill.

Justin returned to law school in 2009, spending his first year of law school at Valparaiso University in Indiana before transferring to Chicago Kent College of Law, from which he graduated in 2012. Following law school, he spent one year as an associate at Sedgwick, a firm practicing corporate insurance defense litigation, before going to work in 2013 as a Cook County Assistant State's Attorney practicing civil rights law. In 2017, he became an associate attorney at Gould & Ratner, a Chicago law firm, where he practices in civil litigation.

Justin currently serves on the Village of La Grange Design Review Commission, and previously served on the Environmental Quality Control Commission. He is also a member of the Lyons Township Community Advisory Council.

Justin's parents are Kimberley and William (Bill) Hanson of Palos Hills, Illinois, and he has two siblings, both of whom also reside in the 3rd District. He and his wife, Lindsay, have two children, Lily (age 3) and Owen (age 1). They live in La Grange.