• District Court, N.D. Illinois

  Judge

  2012 – present · 14 yrsAppointed by Barack Hussein Obama 2

Career

• Private practice

  1997 – 2012 · 15 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Northern District of Illinois

  1992 – 1997 · 5 yrs

• Private practice

  1991 – 1992 · 1 yr

• Law clerk

  Hon. Joel M. Flaum, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  1990 – 1991 · 1 yr

• U.S. Marine Corps Reserve

  1987 – 1988 · 1 yr

• captain

  1987 – present · 39 yrs

• first lieutenant

  1984 – 1987 · 3 yrs

• U.S. Marine Corps

  1982 – 1987 · 5 yrs

• second lieutenant

  1982 – 1984 · 2 yrs

• U.S. Marine Corps Reserve

  1980 – 1982 · 2 yrs

• U.S. Naval Reserve

  1978 – 1980 · 2 yrs

Education