Will Fletcher is the Inspector General for the Gateway Development Commission and President of the Association of Inspectors General. He previously served as the Inspector General for the Chicago Board of Education. Will returned to CPS OIG after previously serving as its deputy inspector general. Prior to his current appointment, Will was the Inspector General of the Chicago Park District for five years and an Assistant Inspector General at the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General.
Previously, Will served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General’s Special Litigation Bureau and General Counsel for the Chicago Police Department’s Office of Professional Standards (now the Civilian Office of Police Accountability), a civilian investigative unit that reviewed allegations of police misconduct, including excessive force and police-involved shootings. Will has also practiced law as a litigation attorney at Jenner & Block and served as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Blanche M. Manning in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
From 2016 to 2020, Will was president of the Illinois Chapter of the Association of Inspectors General. He is an AIG National Board Member and Instructor at AIG’s national Certified Inspector General and Certified Inspector General – Investigator Institutes.
Will graduated from Northwestern University (B.S.) and Columbia Law School (J.D.)