James Alesia
| James Alesia | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | |
| Title: | Former Judge |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 5/20/1987 - 2/1/1998 |
| Senior: | 2/1/1998 - 7/24/2003 |
| Preceded by: | George Leighton |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1934 |
| Deceased: | 2003 |
| Bachelors: | Loyola University Chicago (1956) |
| Law School: | Chicago-Kent College of Law (1960) |
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James Henry Alesia (1934-2003) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Alesia was nominated to the Northern District of Illinois by President Ronald Reagan on February 2, 1987, to a seat vacated by George Leighton; he was confirmed by the Senate on May 19, 1987, and received commission the next day. He assumed senior status on February 1, 1998. He served the Northern District of Illinois until his death on July 24, 2003.[1]
Early life and education
- Loyola University Chicago, B.S., 1956
- Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 1960[1]
Professional career
- Private practice, Chicago Heights, Illinois, 1960-1963
- Attorney, Chicago & North Western Transportation Company, 1963-1970
- Private practice, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1970-1971
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Northern District of Illinois, 1971-1973
- Trial counsel, The Chessie System, 1973
- U.S. Administrative Law Judge, Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration, 1973-1980
- U.S. Administrative Law Judge, U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, 1980-1982
- Private practice, Chicago, Illinois, 1982-1987[1]
Judicial career
Northern District of Illinois
Alesia was nominated to the Northern District of Illinois by President Ronald Reagan on February 2, 1987, to a seat vacated by George N. Leighton; he was confirmed by the Senate on May 19, 1987, and received commission the next day. He assumed senior status on February 1, 1998. He served the Northern District of Illinois until his death on July 24, 2003.[1]
External links
- Biography from the Federal Judicial Center
References
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: George Leighton |
Northern District of Illinois 1987–1998 |
Succeeded by: ' |
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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 | ||
