Hillary Eve August and Mitchell Andrew Suter were married Oct. 12 in Chicago. Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow of the Federal District Court in Chicago, for whom the bride served as a law clerk from 2013-14, officiated at S.K.Y., a restaurant.

Ms. August, 35, is an associate specializing in employee-benefits litigation in the Chicago office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, a Philadelphia law firm. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale and received a law degree with honors from the University of Chicago.

She is the daughter of Dr. Carey Z. August and Brett A. August of Chicago. The bride’s father is a senior partner at Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson, a law firm in Chicago. He is also a founder of the Chicago chapter of the French-American Chamber of Commerce, and was knighted in 2015 by the French government with the Legion of Honor award for his contributions to Franco-American relations. Her mother, a pathologist, is the chairwoman of the pathology department at the Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. She is also the vice president of the board of the College of American Pathologists Foundation.

Mr. Suter, 33, is studying for a master’s degree in computer science at the University of Chicago. He graduated from the University of Michigan and received a master’s degree in quantitative finance from Fordham.