• Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  Judge

  1992 – present · 34 yrsAppointed by George H.W. Bush

• District Court, N.D. Illinois

  Judge

  1984 – 1992 · 8 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

Career

• Deputy governor and legal counsel

  1977 – 1984 · 7 yrs

• chief

  Public Protection Unit

  1976 – 1977 · 1 yr

• deputy chief

  Public Protection Unit

  1975 – 1976 · 1 yr

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Northern District of Illinois

  1973 – 1977 · 4 yrs

• Law clerk, Hon. James B. Parsons

  U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

  1972 – 1973 · 1 yr

• Legal researcher, Richard J. Phelan, Esq.

  1971 – present · 55 yrs

Education