Joan B. Gottschall | |
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | |
Assumed office April 23, 2012 | |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | |
In office August 1,1996 –April 23,2012 | |
Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | James Byron Moran |
Succeeded by | Sara L. Ellis |
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | |
In office 1984–1996 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Oak Ridge,Tennessee,U.S. | April 23,1947
Education | Smith College (BA) Stanford University (JD) |
Joan Beth Gottschall [1] (born April 23,1947) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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. [2] 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. She was a staff attorney in the legal office of the University of Chicago from 1982 to 1984. [3]
She served as a United States magistrate judge for the Northern District of Illinois from 1984 to 1996. On March 29,1996,Gottschall was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by James Byron Moran. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 25,1996, [4] and received her commission on August 1,1996. She took senior status on April 23,2013. [5]
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