James Gray Carr is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
During President Bill Clinton's first and second terms of office,he nominated 24 people for 20 federal appellate judgeships but the nominees were not processed by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee. Three of the nominees who were not processed were nominated after July 1,2000,the traditional start date of the unofficial Thurmond Rule during a presidential election year. Democrats claim that Senate Republicans of the 106th Congress purposely tried to keep open particular judgeships as a political maneuver to allow a future Republican president to fill them. Of the 20 seats in question,four were eventually filled with different Clinton nominees,fourteen were later filled with Republican nominees by President George W. Bush and two continued to stay open during Bush's presidency. Senator Harry Reid,the Democratic leader of the United States Senate during the 110th Congress,and Senator Patrick Leahy,the Democratic leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee under Reid,repeatedly mentioned the controversy over President Clinton's court of appeals nominees during the controversy involving the confirmation of Republican court of appeals nominees during the last two years of Bush's second term. Republicans claimed that Democrats were refusing to confirm certain longstanding Bush nominees in order to allow a future Democratic president in 2009 to fill those judgeships.
Rubén Castillo is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In 1994,Castillo was the first person of Latino descent to be named a judge in the Northern District of Illinois,and in 2013 the first to become Chief Judge.
Maxine Mackler Chesney is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Philip Peter Simon is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
Amy Joan St. Eve is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Sara Lynn Darrow is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. She was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois,where she was chief of the violent crimes section.
John Zihun Lee is an American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 2012 to 2022.
John Joseph Tharp Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Sara Lee Ellis is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Andrea Robin Wood is an American attorney serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Manish Suresh Shah is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and former assistant United States attorney for the same court.
John Robert "Jack" Blakey is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and former Illinois prosecutor.
Steven Charles Seeger is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Mary Margaret Rowland is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and a former United States Magistrate Judge for the same court.
Martha Maria Pacold is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Tiffany Patrice Cunningham is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Candace Rae Jackson-Akiwumi is an American attorney who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since July 2021. She was previously a staff attorney at the federal defender program in the Northern District of Illinois from 2010 to 2020 and a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder in Washington,D.C.,from 2020 to 2021.
Sarah Elisabeth Geraghty is an American lawyer from Georgia who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. She previously was senior counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights.
Nancy Lee Maldonado is an American lawyer from Chicago who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She is the nominee to serve as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
