Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Incumbent
Assumed office September 1, 2012
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
In office July 11, 2000 – September 1, 2012
Appointed by
Bill Clinton
Preceded by
Ann Claire Williams
Succeeded by
Manish S. Shah
Bankruptcy Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
In office 1997–2000
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
In office 1982–1997
Personal details
Born
Joan Marilyn Humphrey
(1944-01-08) January 8, 1944 (age 80) Nemaha County, Kansas, U.S.
Spouse
Michael Lefkow
(m. 1975; died 2005)
Children
5
Education
Wheaton College (AB) Northwestern University (JD)
Joan Marilyn Humphrey Lefkow (born January 8, 1944) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Joan Marilyn Humphrey Lefkow (born January 8, 1944) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District...
in prison. In 2005, an assailant broke into the Chicago home of Judge JoanLefkow of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois...
persists after Hoover…."The record before this court," Federal Magistrate JoanLefkow stated in 1991, "shows that despite regulations, orders and consent decrees...
of U.S. District Judge JoanLefkow, Cobb posted the judge's home address, family photographs and a map to her house. Lefkow's husband and mother were...
journalist, saying the documents should be made public. U.S. District Judge JoanLefkow agreed to lift the protective order, finding that the information had...
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1998), white supremacist who solicited the murder of federal judge JoanLefkowJoan E. Higginbotham, astronaut Rodney P. Kelly, retired Major General,...
February 28, 2005, homicide of the mother and husband of Chicago Judge JoanLefkow, and the March 11, 2005, killing of Atlanta Judge Rowland Barnes. DeLay's...
sentenced to four and a half years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge JoanLefkow. The federal probation office had recommended a 15- to 21-month sentence...
Appointed by Ronald Reagan Preceded by Seat established Succeeded by JoanLefkow Personal details Born (1949-08-16) August 16, 1949 (age 74) Detroit,...
District of South Dakota Joan Larsen, U.S. Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit JoanLefkow, U.S. District Judge for...
June 30, 2000 voice vote July 11, 2000 August 31, 2010 Incumbent 296 JoanLefkow N.D. Ill. May 11, 2000 June 30, 2000 voice vote July 11, 2000 September...
for sustaining Terri Schiavo's life with the recent murders of Judge JoanLefkow's husband and mother, as well as the courtroom murder of Judge Rowland...
boxer Russell Lee, photographer Dan LeFevour, pro football quarterback JoanLefkow, judge (born in Kansas) Lance LeGault, actor, The A-Team Ernest de Koven...
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