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After graduation, she became a law clerk for Judge Thomas E. Fairchild of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. From 1972 to 1975, Lefkow was a staff attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. After that, she served as an administrative law judge for the Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission from 1975 ...
In 2005, an assailant broke into the Chicago home of Judge Joan Lefkow of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and murdered the judge's husband and mother there. The suspect committed suicide, leaving a suicide note containing a confession and stating that he had planned to murder the judge. [16]
Senior Judge Joan Lefkow: Chicago: 1944 2000–2012 — 2012–present Clinton: 81 Senior Judge Frederick J. Kapala: inactive: 1950 2007–2019 — 2019–present
In an emotional video released Monday, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas of New Jersey publicly spoke about her son’s brutal killing last month for the first time and criticized the lack of ...
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DeLay's comments came soon after the February 28, 2005, homicide of the mother and husband of Chicago Judge Joan Lefkow, and the March 11, 2005, killing of Atlanta Judge Rowland Barnes. DeLay's opponents accused him of rationalizing violence against judges when their decisions were unpopular with the public.
A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday said she will continue to block individuals associated with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive Treasury Department ...
The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first. The age restrictions are waived if no members of the court would otherwise be qualified for the position. When the office was created in 1948, the chief judge was the longest-serving judge who had not elected to retire, on what has since 1958 been known ...