United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois

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U.S. Courthouse in downtown Peoria (2008)

The United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (in case citations, C.D. Ill.) serves the residents of forty-six counties, which are divided into four divisions. The counties are: Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Fulton, Greene, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Kankakee, Knox, Livingston, Logan, McDonough, McLean, Macoupin, Macon, Marshall, Mason, Menard, Mercer, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Peoria, Piatt, Pike, Putnam, Rock Island, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Tazewell, Vermilion, Warren, and Woodford counties.

The courthouses for the Central District's four divisions are in Peoria, Rock Island, Springfield, and Urbana. In 2018, all court operations for the Rock Island District were moved to the federal courthouse in Davenport, Iowa, due to uninhabitable conditions at the Rock Island courthouse.[1][2]

Appeals are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

since January 3, 2025Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the acting United States attorney is Gregory M. Gilmore.[3]

History

The United States District Court for the District of Illinois was established by a statute passed by the United States Congress on March 3, 1819, 3 Stat. 502.[4][5] The act established a single office for a judge to preside over the court. Initially, the court was not within any existing judicial circuit, and appeals from the court were taken directly to the United States Supreme Court. In 1837, Congress created the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, placing it in Chicago, Illinois and giving it jurisdiction over the District of Illinois, 5 Stat. 176.[5]

On February 13, 1855, by 10 Stat. 606, the District of Illinois was subdivided into Northern and the Southern Districts.[5] An Eastern District was created on March 3, 1905 by 33 Stat. 992,[5] by splitting counties out of the Northern and Southern Districts. It was later eliminated in a reorganization on October 2, 1978 which replaced it with the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois District, 92 Stat. 883.[5] The newly created Central District was formed primarily from parts of the Southern District, and returned some counties to the Northern District. Some judges from both the Eastern and Southern Districts were transferred to the Central District by operation of law.

Current judges

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# Title Judge Duty station Born Term of service Appointed by
Active Chief Senior
11 Chief Judge Sara Darrow Rock Island 1970 2011–present 2019–present — Obama
12 District Judge Colin S. Bruce Urbana 1965 2013–present — — Obama
13 District Judge Colleen Lawless Springfield 1983 2023–present — — Biden
14 District Judge Jonathan E. Hawley Peoria 1971 2024–present — — Biden
4 Senior Judge Michael M. Mihm Peoria 1943 1982–2009 1991–1998 2009–present Reagan
6 Senior Judge Joe Billy McDade inactive 1937 1991–2010 1998–2004 2010–present G.H.W. Bush
10 Senior Judge Sue E. Myerscough Springfield 1951 2011–2023 — 2023–present Obama

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Former judges

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2 Script error: No such module "Sort". IL 1926–1984 1979–1984[Note 2] 1982–1984 — Script error: No such module "Sort". / Operation of law death
3 Script error: No such module "Sort". IL 1929–2023 1979–1994[Note 1] 1984–1991 1994–2022 Script error: No such module "Sort". / Operation of law retirement
5 Script error: No such module "Sort". IL 1929–2023 1985–1997 — 1997–2023 Script error: No such module "Sort". death
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8 Script error: No such module "Sort". IL 1948–2019 1998–2010 — — Script error: No such module "Sort". resignation
9 Script error: No such module "Sort". IL 1957–present 2011–2024 2012–2019 2024–2025 Script error: No such module "Sort". retirement

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  1. ↑ a b Reassigned from the Eastern District of Illinois
  2. ↑ a b Reassigned from the Southern District of Illinois

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Chief judges

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Succession of seats

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U.S. Attorneys

See also

References

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  4. ↑ Asbury Dickens, A Synoptical Index to the Laws and Treaties of the United States of America (1852), p. 393.
  5. ↑ a b c d e U.S. District Courts of Illinois, Legislative history, Federal Judicial Center.
  6. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". While Illinois State University's Trustee biography says that McCuskey's chief judge term started on December 14, 2004, Andy Kravetz in the Peoria Journal Star says "since 2005". Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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External links

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