Rodger Heaton
Rodger A. Heaton is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Central District of Illinois from 2005-2009.
Heaton was raised in Lexington, Illinois. He attended University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He joined the U.S. Department of Justice in 1989. During the Whitewater controversy, Heaton took part in the successful prosecution of Jim Guy Tucker.
In 2006, he was appointed the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois; the area's top law enforcement official. He was chosen out of a field that included Rick Winkel and Darin LaHood. He left the office in 2009. In 2015, Bruce Rauner appointed Heaton his homeland security advisor and the Illinois Director of Public Safety. In 2017, he was promoted to Governor Rauner's Chief of Staff. He will be Rauner's fourth Chief of Staff in three years.
