David K. Overstreet
David K. Overstreet is a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.
Education
Overstreet received his Bachelor of Science from Lipscomb University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Tennessee College of Law.Career
Overstreet started his legal career with Miller, Tracy, Braun & Wilson of Monticello, Illinois from 1991 to 1992. He then practiced with the Law Office of Peter G. Angelos of Knoxville, Tennessee, from 1992 to 1995, and with Mitchell, Neubauer, Shaw & Hanson, P.C., Neubauer,Hanson & Overstreet, P.C., and Neubauer & Overstreet, P.C. of Mount Vernon, Illinois, from 1995 to 2007.
Judicial career
In 2007, at the recommendation of Karmaier, Overstreet was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to the Second Judicial Circuit to fill the vacancy created in the by the appointment of the James Wexstten to the Appellate Court.Overstreet was assigned to the 5th District Appellate Court of Illinois in 2017 and elected in 2018. Matthew Hartrich, the State's Attorney of Crawford County, was appointed to succeed Overstreet after the latter's elevation to the Appellate Court.
Illinois Supreme Court
Overstreet faced off against Republican primary challenger John B. Barberis Jr.On November 3, 2020, he went on to win the general election against his challenger Democratic candidate and Appellate Justice Judy Cates. He was sworn in on December 2, 2020.
After Overstreet's election to the Illinois Supreme Court, Milton S. Wharton, a retired judge, was appointed to the vacancy on the appellate court.