---
type: Person
title: "La Shawn Ford"
description: "IL House District 8 — IL State House of Representatives District 8"
role: "IL House District 8"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "IL"
district: "IL State House of Representatives District 8"
represents: "us/states/il/districts/house/8"
tenure:
  start: "2007-01-10"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "ae9a7aa6-7e1a-4c25-94bd-dd972d397573"
  office: "a0b66d47-55d1-46b2-ba50-85bff1ef3b73"
  tenure: "eb734981-3701-4a9b-9ad2-a78ee3b3909e"
  jurisdiction: "30075634-96e0-424a-9954-f32bd1ab37cf"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDL (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, il]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# La Shawn Ford

Current IL House District 8 (IL State House of Representatives District 8).

Represents [IL State House of Representatives District 8](/us/states/il/districts/house/8.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDL (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).