Lynn Adelman
| Lynn Adelman | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin | |
| Title: | Judge |
| Position: | Seat #2T |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 12/23/1997 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Thomas Curran |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1939 |
| Home State: | Milwaukee, WI |
| Bachelors: | Princeton U., A.B., 1961 |
| Law School: | Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1965 |
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Lynn S. Adelman is an Article III federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Adelman joined the court in 1997 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.
Early life and education
Adelman was a graduate of Shorewood High School in Shorewood which produced former US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Adelman received a B.A. Degree from Princeton Univ and graduated cum laude in 1961. Adelman received a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School and graduate cum laude in 1965. [1]
State Senate Career
Adelman was a former State Senator in Wisconsin's 28th State Senate District from 1977 to 1997. He held the seat of current State Senator Mary Lazich. Adelman served on the Wisconsin Senate Judiciary Committee for the majority of his Senate career along with serving on the alcohol and drug abuse and highway safety committees. [2]
Judicial career
Eastern District of Wisconsin
On recommendation by U.S. Senators Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold, Adelman was nominated by President William Clinton on September 8, 1997, to a seat vacated by Thomas Curran. Adelman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 13, 1997, and received his commission on December 23, 1997. [1]
Bid for the Seventh Circuit
In 2009 Adelman applied to fill a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with 10 others. The applications were reviewed by the Wisconsin Federal Judicial Nominating Commission, which made recommendations to U.S. Sens. Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold. The Senators then recommended candidates for nomination to President Obama. [3]
Adelman was recommended by the Commission, along with Milwaukee County Circuit judge Richard John Sankovitz, attorneys Dean Strang and Linda Clifford, and UW law professors Anuj Desai and Victoria Nourse. [4]
Notable cases
A notable case on this page needs to be updated.
Johnny Kimble case
Judge Adelman presided in a case where former Wisconsin Equal Rights Division employee Johnny Kimble sued former Equal Rights Division Secretary Sheehan Donoghue. Kimble sued Donoghue for denying him pay raises based on racial and gender bias. The judge issued an opinion on February 25, 2010 that found Donoghue liable and entitled Kimble to lost wages. The Wisconsin Attorney General, who defended the Equal Rights Division in the case, has not indicated if they will appeal the ruling to the Seventh Circuit[5].
- CLICK HERE for a copy of the judge's ruling.
Sue Sachdeva case
Judge Adleman is the presiding judge in the trial of former Koss Headphones Chief Financial Officer Sue Sachdeva. Sachdeva is charged with embezzling $31 million dollars from the company. The judge granted a motion by Sachdeva's attorneys on February 17, 2010, to delay the trial in order to review 6,000 pages of documents used by prosecutors. A status hearing was originally scheduled for April 29, 2010[6]. Judge Adleman, on April 23, 2010, scheduled a new status hearing for June 15, 2010[7].
White supremacy case
Judge Adleman dismissed charges against a white supremacist which claimed that he used a website to encourage harm towards a juror.[8]
William White, of the American National Socialist Workers Party, published contact information of a juror that served in the 2004 trial of white supremacist Matthew Hale on the internet. The judge found no evidence that any content on White's website caused harm, which upheld White's First Amendment rights.[8]
See also
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Judge Adelman's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
- ↑ Wisconsin Blue Book, 1995 - 1996
- ↑ Associated Press "Judges, lawyers seek federal appeals court job", September 29, 2009
- ↑ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Adelman, Sankovitz among 6 recommended for federal job", November 16, 2009
- ↑ Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "State equal-rights official suffered discrimination, court rules", March 8, 2010
- ↑ Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "Sachdeva trial postponed", February 17, 2010
- ↑ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Judge sets June 15 hearing in Koss embezzlement case ", April 22, 2010
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chicago Tribune "Judge tosses charge against Va. white supremacist", July 22, 2009
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Thomas Curran |
Eastern District of Wisconsin 1997–Current Seat #2T |
Succeeded by: NA |
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: William Griesbach • Rudolph Randa • Joseph Stadtmueller • Lynn Adelman | ||
| Senior judges | |||
| Magistrate judges | Aaron Goodstein • Patricia Gorence • William Callahan • James Sickel • Nancy Joseph • | ||
| Former Article III judges |
Terence Evans • Andrew Galbraith Miller • Charles Dyer • James Henry Howe • James Graham Jenkins • William Henry Seaman • Joseph Very Quarles • Ferdinand August Geiger • Francis Duffy • Kenneth Grubb • John Reynolds • Robert Tehan • Robert Warren • Myron Gordon • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
Rudolph Randa • Charles Clevert • Joseph Stadtmueller • Terence Evans • John Reynolds • Robert Tehan • Robert Warren • | ||
