Mark Marquardt
Executive Director at Lawyers Trust Fund
Mark Marquardt has been the executive director of the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois since 2015. He previously served as the organization’s deputy director, a role he assumed in 1991. Mark has had a leadership role in a broad range of innovative efforts to improve the legal aid system in Illinois, including the creation of CARPLS Legal Aid, Illinois Legal Aid Online, and the Rentervention chatbot. Mark served as the research coordinator for the 1989 Illinois Legal Needs Study and was the research director and principal author of the 2005 Legal Aid Safety Net study.