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Jonathan Eugene Hawley
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Active service.
Confirmed 50 to 46Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- July 8, 2024
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- July 31, 2024
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), September 19, 2024
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 50 to 46
- Confirmed
- November 13, 2024
- Commissioned
- November 15, 2024
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1971, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
All judges of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Law clerk, Hon. Michael P. McCuskey, Illinois Appellate Court, Third District, 1997-1998
- Law clerk, Hon. Michael P. McCuskey, U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, 1998
- Law clerk, Hon. James D. Heiple, Illinois Supreme Court, 1998-1999
- Federal Public Defender's Office, Central District of Illinois, 1999-2014
- Research and writing specialist, 1999-2000
- Assistant federal public defender, 2000-2003
- Chief, Appellate Division, 2000-2010
- First assistant federal public defender, 2003-2010
- Acting federal public defender, 2010-2011
- Chief federal public defender, 2011-2014
- Adjunct professor, University of Illinois College of Law, 2013
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