Dan Fitzgerald is an accomplished litigation attorney with over 30 years of experience in public and private practice. He currently serves as the Barrington Township Clerk, a position he began in 2021.

As the Barrington Township Clerk, Fitzgerald has increased transparency, effectiveness, and services for taxpayers. Prior to serving as Township Clerk, he served for 12 years as a Township Trustee where he fought for lower taxes.

Fitzgerald currently works as Senior Counsel for Walgreens, handling complex litigation across the nation and providing legal advice and counsel on health care litigation and regulatory issues. He also ensures company compliance with various health care laws, and helps design and monitor the company’s fraud and abuse compliance programs. He has become a sought after speaker on health care litigation topics, and is regularly invited to speak at national conferences.

Upon graduating law school, Fitzgerald had the opportunity to clerk under a Cook County Circuit Court Judge in the Chancery Division. After that experience, he joined the Illinois Attorney General’s office as an Assistant Attorney General. He served as a litigation attorney handling hearings and trials at the administrative, state, and federal levels. Serving in the Illinois Attorney General’s Office gave Fitzgerald his foundation, instilling in him principles that have stuck with him his entire life.

After six years in the Attorney General’s office, Fitzgerald was called on by the Governor to serve the state in an official capacity. He served as Chief Legal Counsel for the Office of the Inspector General and Chief of the Bureau of Administrative Litigation in the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services. In this capacity, Fitzgerald provided legal advice to the Inspector General’s Office on healthcare regulatory and compliance matters. He also participated in civil prosecutions and litigation enforcement actions against Medicaid providers, working with the US Attorney’s Office and the Illinois Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to root out Medicaid fraud and abuse. In 2004 alone, he helped secure over 75 sanctions, resulting in the removal of over 20 fraudulent providers from the Illinois Medicaid Program and the recovery of over $24 million for Medicaid. He also served as General Counsel and Legislative Liaison for the Illinois Racing Board.

He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, making the Dean’s List five times and graduating with high honors. He earned his JD from the University of Notre Dame, where he won the First Speaker Award twice at the Moot Court Competition and served as President and Treasurer of the Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity. He then broadened his education and approach by earning his MBA from DePaul University.

He has been admitted to the General Bar of the State of Illinois and the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and is a Member of the Federal Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois. He is a Member of the Illinois State Bar Association and a past member of the Northwest Suburban Bar Association. He also previously served on the University of Illinois College of Business Alumni Association Board of Directors for 18 years.

Fitzgerald is a lifelong resident of Barrington, where he currently lives with his wife and their two daughters, both of whom attended D220 schools. The family attends St. Anne Catholic Church, where he serves as an usher. In their spare time, he and his wife enjoy visiting with family and friends, and taking walks through Cuba Marsh.