Ms. Truesdale has litigated claims for disability and race discrimination, wage and hour violations, and retaliatory discharge. On behalf of whistleblower clients, she has pursued claims under both the federal False Claims Act and Illinois False Claims Act. She has briefed and argued matters before the Illinois Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Ms. Truesdale is currently litigating class actions on behalf of immigrants who were forced to perform janitorial labor while in ICE detention at county jails in McHenry County, IL and Kenosha County, WI. In addition, Ms. Truesdale drafted the amicus brief in support of the elimination of money bail in Illinois, supported by over 400 amici. Ms. Truesdale has been repeatedly recognized as a Rising Star in Illinois by Super Lawyers.
Ms. Truesdale joined the firm in 2020. Her prior legal experience includes serving as a law clerk for the Honorable Diane S. Sykes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and representing companies in complex commercial litigation at Eimer Stahl LLP.
Ms. Truesdale graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she served as the Senior Notes Editor on the Northwestern University Law Review, participated in the Bluhm Legal Clinic’s Center on Wrongful Convictions, supervised the translation of academic articles from English to Spanish, and founded the first law school chapter of the Collaboration for Justice, a systemic justice reform group.
Prior to law school, Ms. Truesdale taught Spanish immersion first grade in Phoenix, Arizona as a Teach for America core member and provided English instruction to public school children in Madrid, Spain through the Auxiliares de Conversación program.
