Ilana Rosenzweig
Ilana Rosenzweig is the Chief Administrator of the City of Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority (“IPRA”). Ms. Rosenzweig assumed the leadership of the newly-created IPRA in the Fall of 2007. Prior to that, Ms. Rosenzweig was one of six attorneys overseeing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) as part of Los Angeles’ Office of Independent Review. Ms. Rosenzweig joined that office when it was created in 2001 and worked there for six years. In addition to her work relating to the LASD, Ms. Rosenzweig and her colleagues at the Office of Independent Review consulted with the federal court monitoring the California state prisons to assist it in establishing independent oversight of the disciplinary system. Ms. Rosenzweig and her colleagues also consulted for the City of Oakland, investigating allegations of misconduct made against the Internal Affairs Division of the Oakland Police Department.
From 1994 through 2001, Ms. Rosenzweig practiced law, as a litigator, at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. While at Munger, Tolles & Olson, for several years Ms. Rosenzweig served, pro bono, on the staff of Merrick J. Bobb, Special Counsel to the County of Los Angeles and contributed to semiannual reports regarding the LASD that focused on the investigation, resolution, and/or litigation of gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and use of force complaints and programs to promote gender equity.
During the 1998-1999 academic year, Ms. Rosenzweig took a leave of absence from private practice to teach a course in basic skills for lawyers at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
Ms. Rosenzweig received her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, and her B.A. degree, with honors, from the College of William and Mary. After graduation from law school, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. John G. Davies of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Ms. Rosenzweig has spoken about police oversight issues in a variety of forums, including panels hosted by NACOLE, the American Bar Association, the Fraternal Order of Police, and the DePaul University College of Law, Rule of Law Journal. She has also addressed local chapters of NOBLE, the American Constitutional Society, and other groups representing a variety of stakeholders.
