Attorney Manuel A. Segarra, III (Known by friends and colleagues as “Manny”) was born and raised on the north side of Chicago, Illinois. Manny was raised by his Mother (a single parent) who was an elementary school teacher for the Cook County Public School System for over 31 years as well as his older sister. He attended a Roman Catholic elementary school and a public high school in the Northwestern Suburbs of Cook County.

Manny was a member of the League of Prosecutors, the Puerto Rican Bar Association, the Cuban Bar Association as well as the Wilkie D. Ferguson Bar Association. He is also a doting father of a talented teenage son. He is a Sunday School (CCD) Teacher; a Eucharistic Minister; Lector; and Emmaus Brother at his Church. Manny sits on the Board of the Non-Profit Organizations “Grove for Ghana” (helping to build water wells, schools and clinics in Ghana, Africa) and “Florida Wildlife Kids” (helping children with ADD, ADHD and Autism experience nature).