Joan Humphrey Lefkow

b. 1944 · Rural Nemaha County, KS

Judicial Service

CourtTitleAppointed ByCommissionedTermination
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of IllinoisJudgeWilliam J. Clinton (Democratic)Jul 11, 2000

Education

  • Wheaton College, Illinois, A.B., 1965
  • Northwestern University School of Law (now Pritzker School of Law), J.D., 1971

Professional Career

Law clerk, Hon. Thomas E. Fairchild, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1971-1972; Staff attorney, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, Inc., 1972-1975; Administrative law judge, Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1975-1979; Instructor, University of Miami Law School, 1980-1981; Executive director, Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc., 1981-1982

Other Federal Judicial Service

  • U.S. Magistrate/U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1982-1997
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of Illinois, 1997-2000

Opinions on This Site

68 opinions from 2010 to 2017

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