Nadine Lacombe

With over 30 years of experience as an attorney, Nadine has a depth of experience working with government agencies across legal disciplines and representing a range of private and public sector clients.

Before joining Argonne, Nadine was the General Counsel for the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) of northeastern Illinois for 10 years, where she was the chief legal counsel for the Board of Directors, executives, and staff. There she managed and supervised the Legal & Compliance department which included Procurement, Facilities and Audit in addition to the core legal and regulatory functions. She provided counsel on matters including defense and prosecution of litigation, transactional and corporate matters and municipal finance, and trained the Board of Directors and staff. Nadine worked with the RTA’s fellow transit agencies: the CTA, Metra, and PACE systems, on a variety of system-wide legal matters. 

Previously, Nadine was the General Counsel for the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, providing legal support to the agencies, departments, boards and commissions of the State of Illinois on a variety of statewide administrative, transactional and litigation issues.

As an attorney at large Chicago law firms, Nadine acted as bond counsel in municipal finance transactions, managed staff, counseled on firm personnel policy, managed budgets, and led mentoring and training for the executive committee, partners and associates on a variety of employment matters and workplace collaboration and team effectiveness. Prior to that, she was a Deputy Director at the Illinois Department of Transportation Deputy Director where she carried out the supervision of the Civil Rights and Small Business Enterprise Bureaus.

Nadine Lacombe is a member of the Bar of the State of Illinois, the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and the Haitian American Lawyers Association. Nadine earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School.