United states bankruptcy court northern district of illinois

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From Ballotpedia

The United States bankruptcy court, Northern District of Illinois is the United States bankruptcy court in Illinois that is associated with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Judges

Active judges

Judge	Assumed Office	Bachelors	Law
Carol A. Doyle	July 26, 1999 -	University of Iowa, 1978	Loyola University, Chicago School of Law, 1982
A. Benjamin Goldgar	February 3, 2003 -	Brown University, 1979	Northwestern University School of Law, 1982
Jacqueline P. Cox	February 3, 2003 -	Cornell University College of Arts and Science, 1971	Boston University School of Law, 1974
Donald R. Cassling	January 18, 2012 -	Duke University, 1973	University of Chicago Law School, 1976
Janet S. Baer	March 5, 2012 -	University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1979	DePaul University College of Law, 1982
Timothy A. Barnes	May 16, 2012 -	Miami University, 1989	The Ohio State University, Moritz School of Law, 1995
Thomas M. Lynch	January 1, 2013 -	University of Dayton, 1976	Northwestern University School of Law, 1984
Deborah L. Thorne	October 22, 2015 -	Macalester College, 1975	Illinois Institute of Technology, 1983
LaShonda A. Hunt	January 6, 2017 -	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1992	University of Michigan Law School, 1995
David Cleary	December 18, 2019 -	Arizona State University	DePaul University College of Law

Senior judges

There are no judges matching these criteria.

External links

Northern District of Illinois bankruptcy court

Footnotes

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v • e United States bankruptcy courts

Courts	Alabama (Middle, Northern, Southern) • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas (Eastern and Western) • California (Central, Eastern, Northern, Southern) • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida (Middle, Northern, Southern) • Georgia (Middle, Northern, Southern) • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois (Central, Northern, Southern) • Indiana (Northern, Southern) • Iowa (Northern, Southern) • Kansas • Kentucky (Eastern, Western) • Louisiana (Eastern, Western, Middle) • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan (Eastern, Western) • Minnesota • Mississippi (Northern, Southern) • Missouri (Eastern, Western) • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York (Western, Eastern, Southern, Northern) • North Carolina (Western, Eastern, Middle) • North Dakota • Ohio (Southern, Northern) • Oklahoma (Eastern, Northern, Western) • Oregon • Pennsylvania (Eastern, Middle, Western) • Puerto Rico • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee (Eastern, Middle, Western) • Texas (Western, Eastern, Southern, Northern) • Utah • Vermont • Virginia (Western, Eastern) • Washington (Western, Eastern) • Washington, D.C. • West Virginia (Southern, Northern) • Wisconsin (Eastern, Western) • Wyoming

Terms	Chief Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court

How do I find out if someone has filed bankruptcy in Illinois?

First, you can view electronic case information, including some scanned documents, through the court's PACER system. This requires opening a PACER account. Second, you can access some commonly-requested case information by calling the Voice Case Information System.

Where is the Northern District of Illinois?

Federal Court hearings within the Northern District of Illinois are held in two locations. The Eastern Division is located in Chicago at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse. The Western Division is located in Rockford at the Stanley J. Roszkowski U.S. Courthouse.