Julia Roundtree Livingston is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Manager at the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, where she leads the Commission’s education and advocacy initiatives to promote DEI in Illinois’ legal and justice systems. She joined the Commission in 2023.
Prior to joining the Commission, Julia was Executive Director of Macon County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), which provides court-appointed volunteers to advocate for abused, neglected, and/or dependent children who are involved in the Macon County juvenile court system. She was appointed to this role in 2018 after serving as CASA’s Director of Development.
Julia was also a member of the Illinois CASA Equity Task Force, the Illinois CASA/Children Advocacy Centers Task Force, and the Child Welfare Advisory Committee (CWEC) on Racial Equity led by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services.
Before joining CASA, Julia was the Director of Development at Baby TALK, an educational non-profit in Decatur, Illinois, and an English professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Florida State University, and Richland Community College.
Julia received an ABD (all but dissertation) in African American Literature and U.S. Literature Since 1865 from Florida State University, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she was a 4-year letter winner in cross country and indoor/outdoor track.
She is a member of the Diversity & Education Leadership Team at the Maroa-Forsyth School District and founder of Discourse on Racial Difference: A Macon County Book Club, which has 600 members statewide.
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