Dalila P. A. Bentley is an Assistant Attorney General with the Office of the Illinois Attorney General in the Special Litigation Bureau. Her practice includes False Claims Act investigations, litigation, and arbitration. Dalila has been practicing law and has been a proud member of BWLA since 2006. In 2010-2011, Ms. Bentley served as one of the co-chairs of the BWLA Service Committee. She collaborated with various service, educational and community agencies, providing opportunities for BWLA members to share resources through donation drives, and to make educational presentations to children and young women. Dalila is a former licensed clinical professional counselor. She provided counseling services to elementary school students through Youth Guidance, and to children and families while at Bethany Christian Services, an adoption agency. 

Dalila is a graduate of Spelman College (B.A. in Psychology), Georgia State University (M.A. in Community Counseling), and the University of Illinois College of Law. She is a member of the American Bar Association.

Jamie is an Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Bureau of the Office of the Illinois Attorney General where she litigates violations of the Illinois Antirust Act. In 2002 she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. In 2006, she received a J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. 

Jamie joined BWLA as a law student member in 2004. This year, she will serve as co-chair of the Judicial Evaluations Committee. Jamie is active in several other bar associations including the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association where she serves as the Chair of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section.

Tiffany is an attorney at Navistar Financial Corporation specializing in bankruptcy, secured lending, commercial transactions, employment litigation and general corporate matters. Tiffany graduated from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis in 2008 and is an alumnus of Dartmouth College. 

Tiffany has been an active member of BWLA since 2008 and had a number of leadership roles within the organization during the past year. Tiffany co-chaired two BWLA committees, the Young Lawyers’ Committee (YLC) and the Judicial Evaluation Committee (JEC), assisted with the fundraising efforts for the 2011 Spring Luncheon and facilitated the Fall Writing Workshop with BWLA’s Law Student Outreach Committee. 

Ms. Senat is a 2003 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prior to graduation, she secured a position via the Department of Justice's Attorney General’s Honors Program to work for the former Immigration and Naturalization Service in December 2002. However, in March 2003, that agency dissolved and she was given the privilege of working for the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami, Florida beginning in October 2003. After being in sunny Florida for two years, she transferred to the Chicago Office of the Chief Counsel where she has been stationed since November 2005. Although, her primary responsibility at work is the prosecution of immigration violators, she is a firm believer in balancing her time with a commitment to serving the community when and where she can.

 

She served the legal community in Miami, Florida as an active member of the Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association (GSCBWLA) but now she serves the greater Chicago area as Co-Chair of both the Community Service and Roundtable Committees of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. (BWLA) and is in her second term as an elected Board Member-at-Large for BWLA as well. As a leader in BWLA, she has help to launch a new pilot Youth Lecture Series called Building Wisdom through Legal Awareness which provides "street law" presentations to youth in grades 6 to 12 by various members of BWLA. Now, despite being an active member of BWLA since 2006, she is also an active member of other community based organizations including Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Haitian-American Lawyers Association of Illinois.  Ms. Senat  also holds licenses with the Wisconsin State Bar Association (2003), the Illinois State Bar Association (2011), the General Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2008), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (2008), and the United States Supreme Court (2009). 

Ms. Senat is a 2003 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prior to graduation, she secured a position via the Department of Justice's Attorney General’s Honors Program to work for the former Immigration and Naturalization Service in December 2002. However, in March 2003, that agency dissolved and she was given the privilege of working for the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami, Florida beginning in October 2003. After being in sunny Florida for two years, she transferred to the Chicago Office of the Chief Counsel where she has been stationed since November 2005. Although, her primary responsibility at work is the prosecution of immigration violators, she is a firm believer in balancing her time with a commitment to serving the community when and where she can.

She served the legal community in Miami, Florida as an active member of the Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association (GSCBWLA) but now she serves the greater Chicago area as Co-Chair of both the Community Service and Roundtable Committees of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. (BWLA) and is in her second term as an elected Board Member-at-Large for BWLA as well. As a leader in BWLA, she has help to launch a new pilot Youth Lecture Series called Building Wisdom through Legal Awareness which provides "street law" presentations to youth in grades 6 to 12 by various members of BWLA. Now, despite being an active member of BWLA since 2006, she is also an active member of other community based organizations including Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Haitian-American Lawyers Association of Illinois.  Ms. Senat  also holds licenses with the Wisconsin State Bar Association (2003), the Illinois State Bar Association (2011), the General Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2008), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (2008), and the United States Supreme Court (2009). 

Ms. Senat is a 2003 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prior to graduation, she secured a position via the Department of Justice's Attorney General’s Honors Program to work for the former Immigration and Naturalization Service in December 2002. However, in March 2003, that agency dissolved and she was given the privilege of working for the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami, Florida beginning in October 2003. After being in sunny Florida for two years, she transferred to the Chicago Office of the Chief Counsel where she has been stationed since November 2005. Although, her primary responsibility at work is the prosecution of immigration violators, she is a firm believer in balancing her time with a commitment to serving the community when and where she can.

 

She served the legal community in Miami, Florida as an active member of the Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association (GSCBWLA) but now she serves the greater Chicago area as Co-Chair of both the Community Service and Roundtable Committees of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. (BWLA) and is in her second term as an elected Board Member-at-Large for BWLA as well. As a leader in BWLA, she has help to launch a new pilot Youth Lecture Series called Building Wisdom through Legal Awareness which provides "street law" presentations to youth in grades 6 to 12 by various members of BWLA. Now, despite being an active member of BWLA since 2006, she is also an active member of other community based organizations including Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Haitian-American Lawyers Association of Illinois.  Ms. Senat  also holds licenses with the Wisconsin State Bar Association (2003), the Illinois State Bar Association (2011), the General Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2008), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (2008), and the United States Supreme Court (2009).