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The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (in case citations, N.D. Ill.) is the federal trial court with jurisdiction over the northern counties of Illinois. It is one of the busiest federal trial courts in the United States, with famous cases including those of Al Capone and the Chicago Eight .
Cook County State's Attorney Joseph E. Birkett (born February 13, 1955) is an appellate court judge on the Illinois Appellate Court – Second District. He was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court in December 2010, and was subsequently elected to a full term in November 2012.
Michael J. Burke (born October 28, 1958) is an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois from 2020 to 2022. He was previously a judge on the Illinois Second District Appellate Court.
The Third District has seven judges. [12] The Third District clerk's office is located at 1004 Columbus Street, Ottawa, IL 61350. [10] The Third District is based in Ottawa, IL and hears cases arising in 7 counties in Illinois (Dupage, Will, Kankakee, Iroquois, Grundy, Lasalle, and Bureau Counties.
Johnston served as a law clerk to Judge Philip Godfrey Reinhard of the Illinois Second District Appellate Court and then the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was a unit supervisor for the Office of the Illinois Attorney General and in private practice at Altheimer & Gray, Holland & Knight, and Johnston Greene.
The following is a list of all judges of the United States district and territorial courts. The list includes both "active" and "senior" judges, both of whom hear and decide cases. There are 89 districts in the 50 states, with a total of 94 districts including four territories and the District of Columbia .
As of 1935, decisions of the Illinois Appellate Court became binding authority upon lower courts in Illinois. [8] The Illinois Appellate Court has fifty-four judges serving five districts, administratively centering on Chicago (1st District), Elgin (2nd District), Ottawa (3rd District), Springfield (4th District), and Mt. Vernon (5th District ...
Gottschall was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1973. [3] 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.