Austin Root is an associate in Ice Miller’s Municipal Finance Group. He acts as bond counsel and disclosure counsel to governmental entities throughout the State of Illinois including school districts, cities, villages, counties, park districts, and special districts and as underwriter's counsel to various municipal bond underwriters.

Austin regularly serves clients on municipal finance transactions, including issuers and underwriters of general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, special service area bonds, tax increment bonds, industrial development revenue bonds, and Section 501(c)(3) revenue bonds. In addition, he counsels both public and private entities on municipal and state governmental matters, including tax increment financing, special service areas, contract procurement, and cannabis licensing. Recently, he represented two social equity recreational cannabis applicants in their successful applications for dispensary licenses.

Austin received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, cum laude, from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, where he majored in finance and minored in economics. During his undergraduate career, he was a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society and Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity.

In 2016, Austin graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, Illinois. While in law school, he served as the Managing Editor of the Illinois Business Law Journal, a member of the Student Legal Relief Organization, and a Research Assistant for Charles J. Tabb. He also participated in the American Bar Association Negotiation Competition.

Austin joined Ice Miller in September 2016 and is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois.