Judge Daniel P. Guerin has dedicated his entire 19-year legal career to public service. For the past 6 years he has served the citizens of DuPage County as an Associate Court Judge and previously served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for 13 years under State’s Attorney Joe Birkett and former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan. He has earned a reputation as a tough, fair and respected judge and former prosecutor.

In 2003, the Circuit Court Judges of DuPage County selected Dan as an Associate Court Judge. He has presided over cases in the traffic division, criminal misdemeanor division, Mental Illness Court Alternative Program (MICAP), and is currently assigned to one of the county’s specialized Driving Under the Influence (DUI) courtrooms. As a result of this experience, this year Dan worked together with the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office, DuPage County Bar Association, and victim advocacy groups and implemented a new Victim Impact Panel through the driver’s education program. This panel addresses those sentenced for reckless, high speed, and other chronic violations of the traffic laws. In 2006, he received the Judicial Partner Award from DuPage County Family Shelter Services. By order of the Illinois Supreme Court, Dan was elevated to the office Circuit Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, effective December 30, 2009.

As a prosecutor, Dan served in the felony, misdemeanor, juvenile, and traffic divisions of the State’s Attorney’s Office and was named Outstanding Felony Prosecutor in 1996. Joe Birkett named Dan as supervisor of the Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Unit in 1993. As supervisor, he was responsible for the prosecution of all cases involving domestic violence, child sexual and physical abuse, elder abuse, child pornography, and all Internet predator cases. He tried more than 50 jury trials and hundreds of bench trials to verdict, including 8 first degree murder cases. While at the office, he drafted 7 laws that toughened penalties for child abusers and domestic batterers.

Over the years, Dan has been honored for his work on behalf of victims of domestic violence and child abuse and has received the LaRabida Children’s Hospital Big Hero Award, the Law Enforcement Award from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Domestic Violence Community Service Award.

Dan and his wife Julie have been married for 13 years and have three children; Brian, Bridget and Colleen. He is active in his community as a member of the Lions Club of Wheaton and the Wheaton Council of the Knights of Columbus and volunteers as a youth baseball, basketball, and soccer coach. Dan also serves as an adjunct professor of law at Loyola University School of Law. The Guerins reside in Wheaton and are parishioners of St. Michael Catholic Church.

Dan received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986 and earned his juris doctor from DePaul University’s College of Law in 1989.