**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

**Courthouse:** Stanley J. Roszkowski U.S. Courthouse, 327 S. Church Street, Rockford, IL 61101 **Chambers:** Room 6200 **Phone:** (815) 987-4255 **Chambers Staff** - Court Reporter: Heather Perkins-Reiva, (779) 772-8309, Room 5406 - Operations Specialist: Yvonne Pedroza, (779) 772-8609, Room 2200 - Law Clerks: Charles Beveridge, Matthew Riley, Benjamin Stoloff