District Judge Iain D. Johnston was appointed to the Northern District of Illinois by President Donald J. Trump in 2020. He sits in the Western Division in Rockford.
Judge Johnston was born in 1965. After law school, he clerked for Judge Philip Godfrey Reinhard of the Illinois Second District Appellate Court and then for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was a unit supervisor for the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, and was in private practice at Altheimer & Gray, Holland & Knight, and Johnston Greene. He served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Illinois from May 3, 2013 to September 23, 2020, when he became a district judge.
Education
- UIC John Marshall Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1990
- Rockford University, B.S., cum laude, 1987
Career
- U.S. Magistrate Judge, Northern District of Illinois (2013–2020)
- Private practice, Johnston Greene; Holland & Knight; Altheimer & Gray
- Unit Supervisor, Office of the Illinois Attorney General
- Law Clerk, Hon. Philip G. Reinhard, Illinois Second District Appellate Court and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois