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U.S. District Court in Illinois
U.S. District Judges for Illinois, 1819-50(may beincomplete!)
NathanielPope 1819-50
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Central District of Illinois,1979-2017(may be incomplete!)
JamesWaldo Ackerman 1979-84HaroldAlbert Baker 1979-94RobertD. Morgan 1979-82MichaelMartin Mihm 1982-2009RichardHenry Mills 1985-97JoeBilly McDade 1991-2010MichaelPatrick McCuskey 1998-2013JeanneE. Scott 1998-2010JamesEdward Shadid 2011-SueEllen Myerscough 2011-SaraLynn Darrow 2011-ColinStirling Bruce 2013-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Illinois,1918-79(may be incomplete!)
GeorgeWashington English 1918-26WalterC. Lindley 1922-49FredLouis Wham 1927-56WilliamGeorge Juergens 1956-72JamesL. Foreman 1972-79HaroldAlbert Baker 1978-79
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Northern District of Illinois,1870-2017(may be incomplete!)
HenryWilliams Blodgett 1870-92PeterStenger Grosscup 1892-99ChristianCecil Kohlsaat 1899-1905SolomonH. Bethea 1905-09KenesawMountain Landis 1905-22GeorgeAlbert Carpenter 1910JohnPeter Barnes 1931-57GeorgeE. Q. Johnson 1932-33WilliamHarrison Holly 1933-43PhilipLeo Sullivan 1933-60MichaelL. Igoe 1939-65WilliamJ. Campbell 1940-70WalterJ. LaBuy 1944ElwynR. Shaw 1944-50JuliusJennings Hoffman 1953-72JuliusHoward Miner 1958-63EdwinAlbert Robson 1958-75RichardB. Austin 1961-75JamesBenton Parsons 1961-81BernardM. Decker 1962-87A.L. Marovitz 1963-75WilliamJ. Lynch 1966AlexanderJ. Napoli 1966-72FrankJames McGarr 1970-86ThomasRoberts McMillen 1971-84WilliamJ. Bauer 1971-75PhilipW. Tone 1972-74RichardWellington McLaren 1972-76PrenticeHenry Marshall 1973-88AlfredYounges Kirkland, Sr. 1974-79JohnPowers Crowley 1976-81NicholasJohn Bua 1977-91StanleyJulian Roszkowski 1977-91MarvinE. Aspen 1979-JamesByron Moran 1979-95MiltonIrving Shadur 1980-92JamesHenry Alesia 1987-98SuzanneB. Conlon 1988-2004GeorgeMichael Marovich 1988-2000WayneR. Andersen 1991-RubenCastillo 1994-BlancheM. Manning 1994-2010DavidH. Coar 1994-2009ElaineE. Bucklo 1994-WilliamJ. Hibbler 1999-2012JohnW. Darrah 2000-17AmyJ. St. Eve 2002-SamuelDer-Yeghiayan 2003-RobertMichael Dow, Jr. 2007-SharonJohnson Coleman 2010-EdmondE. Chang 2010-ThomasMichael Durkin 2012-SaraLee Ellis 2013-ManishSuresh Shah 2014-JorgeLuis Alonso 2014-JohnRobert Blakey 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Southern District of Illinois,1887-2017(may be incomplete!)
WilliamJ. Allen 1887-1901J.Otis Humphrey 1901LouisFitzHenry 1918-33CharlesGuy Briggle 1932-58J.Earl Major 1933-37J.Leroy Adair 1937-56FrederickO. Mercer 1956-66RobertD. Morgan 1967-79JamesWaldo Ackerman 1976-79JamesL. Foreman 1979-92WilliamGeorge Juergens 1979-88WilliamLouis Beatty 1979-92WilliamDonald Stiehl 1986-96PaulE. Riley 1994-2001G.Patrick Murphy 1998-2013MichaelJoseph Reagan 2000-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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