Joan Lefkow
| Joan Lefkow | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #18 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 7/11/2000 - 9/1/2012 |
| Senior: | 9/1/2012 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Ann Williams |
| Past post: | Bankruptcy Judge |
| Past term: | 1997 - 2000 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1944 |
| Home State: | Rural Nemaha County, KS |
| Undergraduate: | Wheaton College, A.B., 1965 |
| Law School: | Northwestern U. Law School, J.D., 1971 |
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Joan Humphrey Lefkow is an Article III federal judge serving on senior status in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She joined the court in 2000 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. She assumed senior status on September 1, 2012.
Early life and education
Born in Nemaha County, Kansas, Lefkow graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois with her Bachelor's degree in 1965 and later obtained her law degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1971. [1]
Professional career
- Law clerk, Hon. Thomas Fairchild, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1971-1972
- Staff attorney, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, Inc., 1972-1975
- Administrative law judge, Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1975-1979
- Instructor, University of Miami Law School, 1980-1981
- Executive director, Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc., 1981-1982 [1]
Judicial career
Northern District of Illinois
Lefkow was a federal magistrate judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois until 1997. Lefkow served as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Illinois until 2000. [1]
In 2000, on recommendation of Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, Lefkow was nominated to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by President Bill Clinton on May 11, 2000, to a seat vacated by Ann Williams. Lefkow was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 30, 2000, and received her commission on July 11, 2000. [2] She assumed senior status on September 1, 2012.
Family tragedy
Lefkow's ruling in a medical malpractice suit in 2005 angered a man who shot her husband and mother in retribution. [3]
See also
- News: Governor signs Illinois Judicial Privacy Act, July 27, 2012
External links
References
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Ann Williams |
Northern District of Illinois 2000–2012 Seat #18 |
Succeeded by: NA |
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| 1993 |
Adams • Ambrose • Barnes • Brinkema • Bucklew • Chasanow • Coffman • Daughtrey • Ferguson • Ginsburg • Hagen • Jackson • Lancaster • Leval • Lindsay • Messitte • Michael • Piersol • Saris • Schwartz • Seybert • Shanahan • Shaw • Stearns • Trager • Vazquez • Wilken • Wilson | ||
| 1994 |
Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams | ||
| 1995 |
Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill • Wood | ||
| 1996 |
Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata | ||
| 1997 |
Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash | ||
| 1998 |
Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young | ||
| 1999 |
Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson | ||
| 2000 |
Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore | ||
