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185 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine HEALTH AND WELLNESS Center, receiving a JD. Notably, while pursuing her law degree at Georgetown University, Ms. Hightower co-founded the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Public Policy, in which she served as an associate editor. In 1996, Ms. Hightower served as an associate with Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess and a trial attorney for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. From 2000 to 2009, she was an associate turned partner at Robinson Curley & Clayton. Concurrently, she became an administrative law judge for the Chicago Commission on Human Relations in 2008 – a role she still holds today. In 2010, Ms. Hightower decided to delve into nonprofit management and became the associate director of the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force, holding the role for three years before serving Public Allies Chicago as the executive director beginning in 2013. Ms. Hightower joined Rush University Medical Center in 2016, first serving as the associate vice president of community engagement and practice. Since 2019, she has excelled as the vice president of community health equity, in which she worked to spearhead West Side United, a social justice collaborative on the West side of Chicago. Drawing upon additional certifications in nonprofit management and civic leadership from 2012 and 2015, respectively, Ms. Hightower is immensely proud of her career, particularly her inclusion as a Healthcare Hero by the U.S. News & World Report in 2020. In addition to her career, Ms. Hightower has authored or co-authored articles and case studies to professional journals, and has impressively been an invited speaker at various conferences across the nation, where she speaks on topics in law and health. Looking forward, she intends to continue her work in service, community engagement and social justice. A lways intrigued with and impacted by service, community and social justice, Darlene Oliver Hightower pursued an education at Bradley University, where she graduated magna cum laude with a BS in psychology in 1991. Determined to make a difference through the legal arena, she matriculated in the Georgetown University Law DARLENE OLIVER HIGHTOWER VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH EQUITY Rush University Medical Center Chicago, IL