Judge joan gottschall biography of barack obama

American judge (born 1947)

Joan Beth Gottschall^[1] (born April 23, 1947)^[2] is a seniorUnited States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Education and career

Gottschall was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1973.^[3] She was then in private practice in Chicago, Illinois, until 1976, and again from 1978 to 1982, serving as a staff attorney of the Federal Defender Program in Chicago from 1976 to 1978.

She was a staff attorney in the legal office of the University of Chicago from 1982 to 1984.^[4]

Federal judicial service

She served as a United States magistrate judge for the Northern District of Illinois from 1984 to 1996.

On March 29, 1996, Gottschall was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for t