Ronald L. DeWald, Jr. is a federal prosecutor in Chicago, Illinois. He joined the United States Attorney Office for the Northern District of Illinois in 2004, and is currently the Counsel to the U.S. Attorney for violent crime matters. Ron is responsible for overseeing Project Safe Neighborhoods and other federal, state, and local collaborative initiatives involving strategic law enforcement, offender intervention, and crime prevention strategies for the district. Prior to his federal service, Ron was an Assistant State's Attorney for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, Illinois, where he worked for 10 years.
Ron received a B.A. in Economics ('91) from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, before receiving his J.D. ('94) and M.B.A. ('01) from DePaul University.