Ms. Maggie Hickey is a highly skilled attorney and consensus builder with a long and notable career in government. She has a wealth of experience in internal investigations, compliance programs, police operations, sexual harassment issues in the workplace, and ethics training. In addition to her practice, Ms. Hickey remains active in several community service and pro bono legal initiatives.

Ms. Hickey’s experience spans a range of legal issues in Springfield and Chicago, Illinois, and Washington, DC. In 2018, shortly after becoming a Partner at Schiff Hardin LLP, Ms. Hickey was tapped by the Board of Education of the City of Chicago to lead an independent review of the school district’s policies and procedures following the Chicago Tribune investigation that revealed cases of sexual abuse by Chicago Public School employees. In 2015, she was appointed Executive Inspector General for the Agencies of the Illinois Governor, an independent executive branch state agency that ensures accountability across the state government, nine state public universities, and four Chicago-area regional transportation boards. Before becoming Executive Inspector General, she was the Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois for more than five years. During her tenure as Executive Inspector General, Ms. Hickey was chair of the Illinois Health Care Fraud Elimination Task Force, a comprehensive effort to prevent and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse in state-administered health care programs. Before becoming the Executive Inspector General, Ms. Hickey spent five years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois’s Criminal Division, Financial Crimes, and Special Prosecution sections, investigating and prosecuting complex and sensitive matters. Before working in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, Ms. Hickey served as chief of staff and chief legal counsel to U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald, and she began her career with the U.S. Senate as the Investigative Counsel for the Committee on Government Affairs. Earlier in her career, Ms. Hickey was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division for the Southern District of West Virginia.