Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Title
Judge
Appointed by
William J. ClintonDemocratic president
Seat
ILND0112
Nominated
July 31, 1997
Committee hearing
July 16, 1998
Committee action
Reported (favorably)July 30, 1998
Senate vote
Voice
Confirmed
Oct. 21, 1998
Commissioned
Oct. 22, 1998
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2019until Jan. 1, 2024
Senior status
Aug. 1, 2024

Source Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Judges. Party shown is the party of the appointing president, which is a fact about the president, not about the judge.

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

  • No recorded activity.

Cases

Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.

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Judicial writings

No writings are attributed to this judge in the ingested records.

Source Authorship is recorded only where the source data carries it. For recent Courts of Appeals opinions CourtListener frequently publishes the decision as a single document without naming the authoring judge, so an absence here means the attribution is unavailable upstream — not that the judge has written nothing.