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Tionn Fambro Carter currently serves as an Associate Judge for the 14th Judicial Circuit of Illinois. She has been assigned to preside over cases in civil, criminal, and juvenile court matters. Prior to her appointment on April 15, 2024, she was a partner in private practice with the Brooks Law Firm, Rock Island, IL, representing clients on a broad range of civil legal matters, including orders of protection, divorce, custody/visitation matters, and guardianships. She has also represented clients on matters related to social security disability law, workers compensation, and domestic and international immigration matters.

Her service beyond the law firm included working for the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit on a daily basis as a conflict attorney for felony and misdemeanor cases and as a court appointed attorney for Rock Island County in Juvenile Abuse and Neglect and Juvenile Delinquency cases. As an effort to continue in the resolution of criminal cases, she has served as a coordinator and speaker for the Expungement Clinic sponsored by the Rock Island County Circuit Clerk’s Office and the NAACP. 

Her community service extends to the broader Rock Island County community. She is a current Board Member for the Rock Island County Bar Association. She has been the Legal Redress Chair of the NAACP, a board member of the Greater Metropolitan Housing Authority, a member of the Moline Human Rights Commission, and co-chair of the Policies and Procedures Committee of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Furthermore, she has been a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association. 

Judge Tionn Fambro Carter’s awards and recognition extend to being a recipient of the Rock Island County Bar Association’s Volunteer Lawyer of the Year Award in “recognition of Outstanding Commitment to Serving the Legal Needs of the Poor” as well at the Distinguished Alumnae Award for Southern Illinois University School of Law. 

She graduated Summa Cum Laude and Valedictorian from Tennessee State University where she was a Bill Gates Millennium Scholar and was selected as an intern for the Tennessee House of Representatives. She earned her law degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where she was a Thurgood Marshall Scholar and a Dr. James E. Walker Presidential Scholar. While in law school, she was selected to participate in the Domestic Violence Clinic, the Judicial Clerkship Clinic, an internship at the litigation division of the St. Louis, Missouri Attorney General’s Office, and studied Constitutional and Comparative Law Abroad at the University of Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa.