Joan B. Gottschall

Joan B. Gottschall (born April 23, 1947) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Education and career Born in Oak Ridge Tennessee, Gottschall received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1973. She was then in private practice in Chicago, Illinois, until 1976, and again from 1978 to 1982, serving as a staff attorney of the Federal Defender Program in Chicago from 1976 to 1978. She was a staff attorney in the legal office of the University of Chicago from 1982 to 1984. Federal judicial service