Illinois’ worst school board member, District 211’s arrogant leftist Kim Cavill, may finally be getting what she so richly deserves: infamy on the national level. Her name has come up in a case being considered by the Supreme Court of United States.
In private conference on Thursday, May 14, 2026, the Supreme Court discussed Hedgepeth v. Britton, a First Amendment case brought against District 211 by former social studies teacher Jeanne Hedgepeth who was fired for four social media comments she posted in 2021 on her private Facebook page while on vacation in which she criticized the costly BLM/Antifa riots that devastated cities.
Hedgepeth, who had been teaching in District 211 for twenty years, was hauled before the school board inquisition and fired because five of the seven school board members were leftists, including the dreadful Kim Cavill.
Here’s an excerpt from the original lawsuit filed against two district administrators and the five ignorant leftists:
In late May and early June 2020, Plaintiff [Jeanne Hedgepeth] was vacationing in Florida after the end of the 2019-20 school year when violent street protests, rioting, looting, and shootings erupted in Chicago and many other U.S. cities in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 by Minneapolis police officers. In Chicago alone, 82 persons were shot, 19 fatally, over the May 30-31, 2020 weekend. On May 31, 2020, which the Chicago Sun Times described as the most violent day Chicago had seen in 60 years, Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked Governor J.B. Pritzker to deploy the Illinois National Guard in the city. That same day, May 31, 2020, Plaintiff posted … the comment, “I don’t want to go home tomorrow. Now that the civil war has begun I want to move.”
An individual responded, “Follow your gut! Move!!!!!!!!!” Plaintiff answered, “I need a gun and training.” The individual replied, “me too!”
Another individual posted a meme that same day suggesting that the riots could be stopped with a septic tank truck and a pressure cannon. Plaintiff reposted the meme, obviously in jest, adding, “You think this would work?”
On or about June 1, 2020, Plaintiff posted the following comment on Facebook in the course of an exchange of posts begun the previous day with a third individual:
“I am about facts, truth seeking and love. I will speak on any topic I choose because I live in a free country. I find the term “white privilege” as racist as the ‘N’ word. You have not walked in my shoes either so do not make assumptions about me and my so called privilege. You think America is racist? Then you have been hoodwinked by the white liberal establishment and race baiters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.”
For those posts, Hedgepeth was fired. At the time of Hedgepeth’s firing, Cavill accused Hedgepeth of “traffic[king] in racial stereotypes and racial tropes … this is a really good example of … dogwhistle language, where on the surface there is plausible deniability and the general understanding is that is a racist conclusion.”
Meanwhile, here are some of the posts from Kim Cavill who voted to oust Hedgepeth:
April 12, 2021 retweet:
“Nothing like a police shooting to demonstrate conservatives’ most strongly held belief: With great power comes no responsibility.”
April 13, 2021, she tweeted this quote from an Atlantic article:
“For the past 30 years, the GOP has pursued a consistent strategy: Find a misunderstood or marginalized group, convince voters that the members of that group pose an existential threat to society, and then ride to victory on the promise of using state power to crush them.”
August 28, 2020 retweet (just weeks after Cavill voted to fire Hedgepeth):
“It sounds absurd to say it, but America is in the process of choosing whether to be a white nationalist fascist state or an inclusive democracy. That’s not hyperbole, that’s just where we are”
August 23, 2020 Retweet:
“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body – it is heritage.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Those tweets sound remarkably like divisive, bigoted anti-white, anti-conservative stereotypes.
Hedgepeth’s attorneys write,
The school district fired Hedgepeth after administrators deemed her core protected speech “disrespectful, demeaning of other viewpoints, and racist.” In any other context, such blatant viewpoint discrimination by government officials would be a nonstarter. But because Hedgepeth is a public employee, the Seventh Circuit held that the First Amendment does not bar the government from firing her based on the views she expressed in off-the-job speech on topics unrelated to her work. The court recognized that Hedgepeth’s Facebook posts constituted core political speech on matters of public concern. It did not matter. Invoking the balancing test set forth in Pickering v. Board of Education … the court held that the school’s interest in “avoiding disruption”—specifically, emails and phone calls from some members of the public (most of whom had no direct connection to the school) “expressing concern or outrage” about Hedgepeth’s summer vacation posts— “outweighs her right to speak.”
Take that in. Griping from petulant leftists—the Heckler’s veto—has become the unconstitutional grounds to eviscerate the First Amendment.
Thomas A. Berry and Dan Greenberg writing for the Cato Institute warn, “If allowed to stand, the Seventh Circuit’s decision will prevent teacher civic participation by denying them robust speech rights.”
Cavill is singled out in the case for her animus toward conservatives: “Cavill, who was the most vocal of the board members who voted to terminate Plaintiff, seemed particularly hostile to conservative views.”
The perpetually smug Cavill has made her hostility for conservatives obvious for years. I wonder if conservative parents and students in District 211—the largest high school district in Illinois, serving 12,000 students in five high schools—believe Cavill serves their interests.
Here’s more about Cavill from my 2021 article:
Cavill has a history of unethical behavior, perhaps the most corrupt of which was her scheme to solicit outside money to interfere with the 2017 school board election.
Prior to being elected to the D211 board in 2019, Cavill colluded with her sister to defeat the 2017 slate of excellent conservative candidates by bringing in outside money from wealthy homosexuals and cross-sex identifiers that was laundered through a sham PAC.
On March 22, 2017, just 13 days before the 2017 election, LaSaia Wade, a 29-year-old “black trans woman” (i.e., a biological man), and Daye Pope, another biological male who passes as a woman, set up a Super PAC called Trans United Fund Illinois. Pope was the organizing director for a 501(c)(3) called Trans United Fund.
Two days later, on March 24, 2017—11 days before the 2017 election—Kim Cavill and her sister Lindsay Christensen set up a Super PAC called Parents and Neighbors for Quality Education (PNQE).
Just days after the founding of Trans United Fund Illinois, donations from some surprising people came pouring in:
- Matrix Director “Lana” Wachowski, a biological man who pretends to be a woman and lives with his dominatrix wife in Chicago, donated a whopping $10,000.
- Far left former Illinois State Senator Heather Steans (D-Chicago), who has an adult son who pretends to be a woman, also donated $10,000.
- Homosexual Clark Pellet, a retired attorney and development chair for the “LGBTQ” Center on Halsted who lives in Chicago, donated $5,000.
- Executive director of Gender Rights Maryland, Dana Beyer, a man who pretends to be a woman and lives in Chevy Chase, MD donated $1,000.
- Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) who lives in Brooklyn, NY donated $500.
- Homosexual Douglas Hattaway, president and CEO of a Washington D.C. strategic communications firm who lives in D.C., donated $500.
- Architect Kira Kinsman, a biological man formerly known as Kyle Kinsman who lives in Wilkes Barre, PA, donated $250.
The more than $26, 000 in donations for a school board election from donors who didn’t live in District 211 then went to—you guessed it—Cavill’s Parents and Neighbors for Quality Education.
Enquiring minds may wonder why Cavill and her sister set up PNQE, since Trans United Fund Illinois was already established. Why the extra step to fund the defeat of conservatives? The answer to that question might be found in mailers and yard signs. State law requires that campaign mailers and yard signs identify the groups that pay for them. Signs must say “Approved by …”
Which sounds better—and by “better” I mean less likely to arouse suspicion: “Approved by Trans United Fund Illinois” or “Approved by Parents and Neighbors for Quality Education”?
Clearly not a fan of First Amendment speech protections for conservatives, Cavill wants expansive speech protections for herself. As I wrote in 2023,
Illinois District 211’s controversial school board member Kim Cavill loves talking to other people’s children about sex. She discusses sex in classrooms with 11–14-year-olds, and until recently, she discussed sex in podcasts for tweens and teens. What she doesn’t love so much is having the community she purports to represent know exactly what she says to tweens and teens about sex, which is probably why she has taken down all her podcasts for kids on topics like porn, anal sex, and polyamory.
District 211 should know within days whether SCOTUS will to take up Hedgepeth’s important case.