The Hon. Mitchell L. Hoffman is a circuit judge for the Lake County Circuit Court in Illinois. He was appointed to the bench by the Illinois Supreme Court on February 3, 2014.
Prior to his appointment, Hoffman was an associate judge for the Lake County Circuit Court, a position to which he was named in 2001. Before that, he spent time as an attorney in private practice as well as the Chief Deputy of the Civil Division of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Hoffman earned a bachelor’s degree from Colorado College in 1981. He then completed a J.D. at the University of Illinois College of Law in 1984.
He is registered as a Democrat.