Michael Mihm
Michael Martin Mihm is anfederal judge for theUnited States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. He joined the court in 1982 after being nominated by PresidentRonald Reagan. Mihm assumedsenior status onOctober 1, 2009.[1]
Early life and education
Born in Amboy,Illinois, Mihm graduated from Loras College in Duboque, Iowa with his bachelor's degree in 1964 and from Saint Louis University Law School inSt. Louis, Missouri with his Juris Doctor degree in 1967.[2]
Professional career
Mihm was an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri from 1967 to 1968 before serving as an Assistant State's Attorney forPeoria County, Illinois from 1968 to 1969. Mihm was Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City ofPeoria, Illinois from 1969 to 1972. Mihm was State's Attorney of Illinois from 1972 to 1980 before entering private practice until 1982.[2]
Judicial career
Central District of Illinois
On the recommendation of U.S. Senator Charles Percy, Mihm was nominated to theUnited States District Court for the Central District of Illinois by PresidentRonald Reagan on July 27, 1982, to a judgeship vacated byRobert Morgan. Mihm was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 5, 1982, on a Senate Vote and received commission onAugust 6, 1982. Mihm served asChief Judge for the court from 1991 to 1998. He assumedsenior status on October 1, 2009.[2]
Noteworthy cases
Al Qaeda sleeper agent (2009)
- See also:United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (United States v. Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, 1:09-cr-10030-MMM-JAG)
- See also:United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (United States v. Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, 1:09-cr-10030-MMM-JAG)
Judge Mihm sentenced Al Qaida sleeper agent and former Bradley University student Ali al-Marri to eight and a half years in prison on October 29, 2009. Marri was convicted for his role to conspire in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and was known to be in terrorist training camps in the Middle East.
Despite the fact that Marri spent five years in military prison, Mihm handed down the sentence because he considered Marri a threat to society and national security.[3]
See also
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Officeholder United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois |
Footnotes
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Robert Morgan | Central District of Illinois 1982–2009 Seat #3 | Succeeded by: James E. Shadid |
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| 1981 | Bartlett •Beam •Becker •Bork •Cacheris •Cardamone •Chapman •Coughenour •Cox •Crow •Cyr •Doumar •Eschbach •Forrester •Garwood •Gibson •Glasser •Hall •Hamilton •Head •Jones •Kiser •Krenzler •Lee •Magnuson •McLaughlin •Miner •Moore •Nowlin •O'Connor •Pierce •Posner •Potter •Russell •Ryan •Shabaz •Sprizzo •Stevens •Waters •Wilhoit •Wilkins •Winter | ||
| 1982 | Acker •Acosta •Altimari •Bell •Bissell •Black •Bullock •Caldwell •Coffey •Contie •Coyle •Dowd •Fagg •Fong •Fox •Gadbois •Gibson •Ginsburg •Hart •Higginbotham •Hogan •Irving •Jackson •Jolly •Kanne •Kovachevich •Krupansky •Lynch •Mansmann •McNamara •Mencer •Mentz •Mihm •Moody •Nordberg •Paul •Pieras •Plunkett •Porfilio •Potter •Pratt •Rafeedie •Restani •Roberts •Scalia •Selya •Telesca •Wellford | ||
| 1983 | Baldock •Barbour •Barry •Bowman •Carman •Carter •Curran •Davis •Dorsey •Feldman •Fish •Flaum •Gibbons •Hallanan •Harris •Hinojosa •Hull •Hupp •Katz •Keenan •Kelly •Kram •Laffitte •Limbaugh, Sr. •Limbaugh, Sr. •Milburn •Nesbitt •Nevas •O'Neill •Rymer •Sharp •Starr •Vinson •Vukasin •Wexler • Woods | ||
| 1984 | Barker •Beezer •Biggers •Billings •Bissell •Boyle •Brewster •Browning •DiCarlo •Duhe •Garcia •George •Hall •Hargrove •Higgins •Hill •Holland •Ideman •Jarvis •Keller •Leavy •Lee •Legge •Leisure •Little •Livaudais •Longobardi •McKibben •Milburn •Newman •Norgle •Prado •Rea •Rosenblatt •Rovner •Scirica •Smith, Jr. •Sneeden •Stotler •Suhrheinrich •Torruella •Wiggins •Wilkinson | ||
| 1985 | Alley •Altimari •Anderson •Aquilino •Archer •Arnold •Baldock •Batchelder •Battey •Broomfield •Brown •Brown •Brunetti •Buckley •Cobb •Conmy •Cowen •Davidson •Dimmick •Duff •Easterbrook •Edgar •Farnan •Fernandez •Fitzpatrick •Fuste •Greene •Gunn •Guy •Hall •Hilton •Holderman •Hughes •Johnson •Jones •Korman •Kozinski •La Plata •Leinenweber •Letts •Lovell •Ludwig •Maloney •Mansmann •Marcus •McDonald •Meredith •Miller •Mills •Miner •Motz •Nelson •Noonan •Porfilio •Revercomb •Rhoades •Ripple •Rodriguez •Rosenbaum •Roth •Ryan •Sam •Scott •Sentelle •Silberman •Sporkin •Stanton •Stapleton •Strand •Strom •Tacha •Tevrizian •Thompson •Todd •Tsoucalas •Walker •Walter •Weber •Williams •Wilson •Wingate •Wolf •Wollman •Young •Zloch | ||
| 1986 | Anderson •Boggs •Bryan •Cedarbaum •Cholakis •Conway •Davies •Dearie •Dubina •Duggan •Edmondson •Fawsett •Fitzwater •Gex •Graham •Hackett •Hansen •Henderson •Hittner •Howard •Jensen •Kay •Kleinfeld •Kosik •Lagueux •Lechner •Magill •Mahoney •Manion •McAvoy •McQuade •Norris •O'Scannlain •Rehnquist •Ryskamp •Scalia •Selya •Simpson •Smalkin •Spencer •Stiehl •Wilkins •Williams •Woodlock •Zatkoff | ||
| 1987 | Alesia •Beam •Bell •Conboy •Cowen •Cummings •Daronco •Doty •Dwyer •Ebel •Ellis •Gadola •Gawthrop •Greenberg •Harrington •Howard •Hoyt •Hutchinson •Kanne •Kelly •Larimer •Leavy •Lew •Marsh •Mayer •McKinney •Michel •Mukasey •Musgrave •Niemeyer •Parker •Phillips •Politan •Pro •Raggi •Reasoner •Reed •Scirica •Sentelle • Smith •Smith •Stadtmueller •Standish •Tinder •Torres •Trott •Turner •Van Antwerpen •Voorhees •Webb •Whipple •Wolin •Wolle •Wood •Zagel | ||
| 1988 | Arcara •Babcock •Brorby •Butler •Cambridge •Camp •Conlon •Cox •Dubois •Duhe •Ezra •Forester •Friedman •Garza •Hutton •Jordan •Kennedy •Lake •Lamberth •Lifland •Lozano •Marovich •Nygaard •Patterson •Schell •Smith •Smith •Tilley •Waldman •Zilly | ||
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- Appointed by Ronald Reagan
- Confirmed 1982
- Federal Article III judges
- Federal judiciary nominee, July 1982
- Illinois
- Judge on senior status, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- Senior federal judge
- Noteworthy case
- Central District of Illinois, Seat 3
- Judge on senior status, Central District of Illinois
- Former chief judge, Central District of Illinois
