Kirk Dillard

Kirk Dillard is a strategic advisor at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP concentrating his practice in the representation of manufacturers in product liability and is the Chair of the iconic Chicago Skyway Toll Bridge (also known as the “Skyway”)—the 7.8-mile-long toll road that connects the Indiana Toll Road to the Dan Ryan Expressway on Chicago’s South Side. He is also the Chairman of the Northeastern Illinois Regional Transportation Authority (RTA)—the nation’s second largest mass transit system with assets of nearly $200 billion and over one million weekday riders.

Dillard served with distinction as former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar’s Chief of Staff and Legislative Director for the late Governor James Thompson. Kirk served the western suburbs of Chicago in the Illinois Senate for nearly 20 years and was a Judge on the Illinois Court of Claims. Senator Dillard served as a member of Governor Pritzker’s Restoring Illinois Infrastructure Transition Committee.

Recently, Governor Pritzker appointed Mr. Dillard to his alma mater, Western Illinois University, Board of Trustees and Kirk serves as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee at DePaul University’s College of Law.