Northern District of Illinois
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The Northern District of Illinois, headquartered at the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse in Chicago, is one of the nation's largest and most prominent federal courts with 22 authorized judgeships. Chicago's status as the nation's financial center for futures and derivatives markets generates an outsized commodity-fraud and securities-litigation docket. The district is also home to the Federal Judicial Center's Chicago office.
Judges (45)
Albert Berry III
Magistrate Judge
Andrea R. Wood
Beth W. Jantz
Magistrate Judge
Charles P. Kocoras
Daniel P. McLaughlin
Magistrate Judge
Edmond E. Chang
Elaine E. Bucklo
Franklin U. Valderrama
Gabriel A. Fuentes
Magistrate Judge
Georgia N. Alexakis
Heather K. McShain
Magistrate Judge
Iain D. Johnston
Jeannice W. Appenteng
Magistrate Judge
Jeffrey I. Cummings
Jeffrey T. Gilbert
Magistrate Judge
Joan B. Gottschall
Joan Humphrey Lefkow
John F. Kness
John J. Tharp Jr.
John Robert Blakey
Jorge L. Alonso
Karyn L. Bass Ehler
Magistrate Judge
Keri L. Holleb Hotaling
Magistrate Judge
LaShonda A. Hunt
Laura K. McNally
Magistrate Judge
Lindsay C. Jenkins
M. David Weisman
Magistrate Judge
Manish S. Shah
Margaret J. Schneider
Magistrate Judge
Maria Valdez
Magistrate Judge
Martha M. Pacold
Marvin E. Aspen
Mary M. Rowland
Matthew F. Kennelly
Michael F. Iasparro
Magistrate Judge
Philip G. Reinhard
Rebecca R. Pallmeyer
Robert M. Dow Jr.
Robert W. Gettleman
Sara L. Ellis
Sharon Johnson Coleman
Sunil R. Harjani
Thomas M. Durkin
Virginia M. Kendall
Chief Judge
Young B. Kim
Magistrate Judge
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