Joseph Sanders
Joe Sanders is a Supervising Attorney in the Consumer Fraud Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General's Office and the first Student Loan Ombudsman for the State of Illinois. Joe's practice focuses on post-secondary education and student lending, and includes litigation against for-profit schools, student loan servicers, and the U.S. Department of Education, as well as education policy work at the state and federal level. Joe is also the co-author of multiple articles on student lending. Prior to his work for the Illinois Attorney General, Joe was the director of a predatory lending litigation project for Legal Services NYC. Joe formerly served as the chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Consumer Law Committee, and is licensed to practice law in New York and Illinois.
Professional affiliations
Illinois Office of the Attorney General
