• Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  Judge

  1999 – present · 27 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

• District Court, N.D. Illinois

  Judge

  1985 – 1999 · 14 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

Career

• chief

  Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, Northern Central Region

  1983 – 1985 · 2 yrs

• deputy chief

  Criminal Receiving and Appellate Division

  1980 – 1983 · 3 yrs

• Adjunct professor and lecturer

  Northwestern University Law School

  1979 – present · 47 yrs

• Adjunct professor and lecturer

  John Marshall Law School

  1979 – present · 47 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Northern District of Illinois

  1976 – 1985 · 9 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Robert A. Sprecher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  1975 – 1976 · 1 yr

Education