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Most of her legal work, Maldonado said in her Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, has been in federal courts with 99% of her work involving civil proceedings. I hope to continue teaching yoga on the weekends and serving on various community boards, as time and ethical rules allow, Maldonado wrote in her Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire. 0000058836 00000 n By collecting photographs, documents, judicial biographical information, and artifacts the Association seeks to archive the history of the court and its cases.
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The three Republicans who backed her were Sens. Her road to the court included clerking, from 2001 through 2003, for U.S. District Court Judge Ruben Castillo. Finally, federal courts hold jurisdiction over cases in which the federal government is a party.
If confirmed, she would be the first Latina woman to ever serve as an Article III judge in the state of Illinois. 0000005628 00000 n The two senators then forwarded their recommendation to the White House with Biden formally nominating Maldonado to the seat in April. endstream endobj 495 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/Index[30 412]/Length 36/Size 442/Type/XRef/W[1 1 1]>>stream Illinois has three federal district courts, which are the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of Illinois.
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Exercising on weekends only can yield the same health benefits as exercising regularly during the week, if you spend enough time at it. These include bankruptcy, patents, copyrights, and admiralty or maritime law. Hon. However, a defendant may ask to remove a case from state court to federal court if it could have been filed in federal court. 
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To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Currently, she is a partner at Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C., specializing in employment discrimination and other civil rights cases. Hon.
In 2021, she was tapped by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul to serve as a Special Assistant Attorney General investigating consumer fraud. The Court Historical Association undertakes and sponsors projects and events designed to preserve and enhance the historical, artistic, and architectural character of the District Courts functions and buildings.
One noteworthy aspect of Maldonados nomination is that it revealed that she has a side hustle as a yoga instructor. 0000030478 00000 n Ms. Maldonado is extremely well qualified for this position, and we strongly urge you to confirm her to the Northern District of Illinois. For example, she successfully brought a case seeking proper overtime compensation and paid rest breaks for workers. American Conference Institute has not authorized the use or sale of its list by any outside organization. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the Senate Judiciary Committee chair, and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said in a joint statement, Not only does she have the qualifications, integrity, and judgment to serve with distinction, but she will also bring important demographic diversity to the bench as the first Hispanic woman to serve as an Article III federal judge in the state of Illinois.. Judge Kim is also the recipient of the Korean American Association of Chicagos 2011 Korean American of the Year award and the Asian American Bar Associations 2012 Vanguard award. (U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee / Chicago Tribune).
In June, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent Maldonados nomination to the Senate floor on a 13-9 vote. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. She has repeatedly defended the rights of migrant farmworkers. 0000001173 00000 n
Maldonado began her career as a law clerk for now-retired U.S. District Judge Rubn Castillo, who was the first Hispanic person to serve as a federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois. Via email on Wednesday, Maldonado declined to comment on her Senate confirmation. Judge Kim regularly participates in lectures and training sessions for various bar associations, government agencies, law school groups and community organizations and also serves as a mentor to many law students. We No Longer Sell Your Personal Information. CivilRights.org is the joint website of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights & The Leadership Conference Education Fund.
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Maldonado graduated from Columbia Law School after getting her undergraduate degree from Harvard College. HUD accuses city of Chicago of environmental racism by moving polluters to Black, Latino neighborhoods, 4 people stabbed in robbery on North Avenue Red Line CTA train, including three of the attackers, police say, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to visit Argonne National Lab, Hyzon Motors, Weekend warrior? He presides over both civil and criminal matters. Anyone claiming to have our list is not legitimate. John Z. Lee of Barrington, who currently is a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District, has been nominated by Biden to be a judge on the 7th U.S. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information. Ms. Maldonado has dedicated her career to advancing equal justice for all. Hon. 0000000892 00000 n Join us for a lively discussion of this important school desegregation case with the lead attorneys for both sides and Judge P. Michael Mahoney who presided over the remedial phase of litigation. When this happens, a plaintiff can choose the court system that they prefer. 0000025077 00000 n
Nancy L. Maldonado speaks in a video at her a video of her U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
She is deeply involved in her community, including serving on the boards of directors of the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Apna Ghar (Our House), a non-profit organization that works to end gender violence. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change our default settings. She started as a paralegal at the firm while in law school, becoming a partner in 2010. 0000008330 00000 n He is the author of the Civil Rights chapter in the American Bar Association Section of Litigations treatise on Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts.Before joining the bench, Judge Chang served on the board of the Chicago Council of Lawyers, a public-interest bar association.
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Click on the video below to learn more about the Court History Museum. US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, US District Court for the Central District of Illinois, US District Court for the District of Illinois (1819-1855), US District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois (1905-1978). Richard Durbin and Tammy Duckworth. He then served as a judicial clerk for the U.S. District Judge Charles R. Norgle of the Northern District of Illinois. A graduate of Harvard University and of Columbia Universitys law school, Maldonado, who was born in Skokie and lived in the village until 2015, will be the first judge whom President Joe Biden has appointed to the Northern District. xb```f``bc`d`z 6GNF\G9w_5TZ[4k#s 5m9AS>Rf!9r4YW^ b } W^ >g0 hBH$ endstream endobj 119 0 obj<> endobj 120 0 obj<>/Encoding<>>>>> endobj 121 0 obj<>/ProcSet[/PDF/ImageB]>>/Type/Page>> endobj 122 0 obj<>stream 0000024713 00000 n
Edmond E. Chang has servedon the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois since January 2011. Youll still benefit by fitting a weeks worth of exercise into a day or two, research suggests, Restaurant employee shot to death in Lawndale, hours after a fatal attack a mile away, Driver shot, 1-year-old boy hurt by shattered glass in Lawndale attack.
During Tuesdays Senate roll call vote, all Democrats present and four Republican senators, Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis, voted in favor of Maldonado. In addition to the under-represented professional experience she possesses, Ms. Maldonado would also bring other important diversity to the bench. 0000058445 00000 n 0000009991 00000 n The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Wang was a magistrate judge in Colorado for seven years and previously worked as a partner at Faegre Baker Daniels.
She has spent most of her legal career at Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C., the same Chicago law firm that in 1993 employed a young lawyer just starting out, Barack Obama. Before joining the judiciary, Judge Chang was an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago. My parents created a home filled with love, faith, high expectations and respect, where my siblings and I were able to thrive, she told senators. Immediately after law school, Maldonado was a law clerk for Judge Ruben Castillo of the Northern District. He earned with honors a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Before he retired, Castillo served as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois the first Hispanic to hold this position in the district. They serve lifetime terms. On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 230 national organizations committed to promoting and protecting the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States, we write to express our strong support for the confirmation of Nancy Maldonado to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. The senators not voting were Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana. A graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School, Ms. Maldonado clerked for Judge Rubn Castillo of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. If you would like to discuss this matter further, please contact Lena Zwarensteyn, Senior Director of the Fair Courts Program, at (202) 466-3311. 0000004368 00000 n He serves on the board of KABA and the Federal Bar Association. The confirmation of Ms. Maldonado would be an important step towards ensuring that our federal courts reflect and represent the diversity of our nation. Since 1996, Judge Chang has taught Civil Rights Litigation as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. Another suburban nominee to the federal bench in Chicago is awaiting a Senate vote. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in May, she discussed her upbringing as the daughter of a father who first had worked in Utahs copper mines before settling in Chicago and forming a food business. Margot Klein, Secretary/Treasurer, Hon. 0000013390 00000 n Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. 0000033450 00000 n
Decisions by all three district courts may be appealed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. 0000023065 00000 n At that time, he was the youngest then-serving federal judge in the nation.He is the first Asian-Pacific American Article III federal judge in Illinois.
FOOTNOTE: There is another Hispanic female judge sitting on the federal bench in Chicago but not in a Senate confirmed or Article III position. In her Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, Maldonado noted that she has taught yoga at the Heaven Meets Earth yoga studio in northwest Evanston since 2018, and that she also teaches yoga at the Claretian Missionaries Service Corporation in the Loop.
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0000026956 00000 n Equal Employment Opportunity Commission appointed Judge Kim to serve as an Administrative Judge. The Article III is a reference to Article III of the Constitution which governs federal judges nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate to spots on the Supreme Court, appellate and district courts.
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Judge Chang earned his law degree with honors and Order of the Coif from Northwestern, where he served on the Northwestern University Law Review.
Maldonado was nominated to be a judge after submitting an application in October to a judicial screening committee established by Sens. In 2021, Maldonado was appointed by the Illinois attorney general to serve as a special assistant attorney general investigating consumer fraud. She will replace Judge Matthew Kennelly, who in October took senior status, or a form of semi-retirement involving a reduced caseload. The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Chicago attorney Nancy Maldonado to be a federal judge. 0000174590 00000 n Last week, Biden announced 18 nominees to the federal bench over a three-day span, putting an emphasis on continuing the speed of judicial confirmations. In 2001, the U.S. Judge Kim was one of the founding members of the Chicago Chapter of the Korean American Bar Association in 1993. The extensive questionnaire Maldonado filed with the Senate Judiciary Committee reveals that the Northern District is adding an active yoga instructor to the bench. Maldonado graduated Harvard University in 1997 and received her J.D.
Maldonado was born in Skokie in 1975 and lives in Wilmette. Maldonado told the committee, I hope to continue teaching yoga on the weekends and serving on various community boards, as time and ethical rules allow., She also taught weekly religious education classes to first graders at her church and on occasion still serve[s] as a substitute teacher. Maldonado is a member, she said, of the Saint Nicholas parish, with a large Spanish-speaking membership, and I enjoyed working with both English-and-Spanish-speaking parents in their childrens religious education and in creating inclusive lesson plans.. Judge Kim has been honored with many professional awards including the Cook County States Attorneys Community Service Award in 2009, the Chicago Bar Associations Distinguished Public Service Award in 2007 and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Associations Best Lawyers Under 40 award in 2004. The newest Northern District of Illinois judge was one of two candidates whom lawmakers voted on Tuesday. WASHINGTON (CN) The Senate gave its seal of approval Tuesday to two federal court judges, including one appointee who will be the first Hispanic woman to ever serve as a federal judge in Illinois. Throughout her career, Ms. Maldonado has pursued equal justice and would bring much-needed professional experience to the bench.
During his seven years as a federal prosecutor, Judge Kim focused on investigating and prosecuting healthcare fraud cases.
Additionally, Ms. Maldonado vigorously defended the rights of Cook County residents, challenging a racially discriminatory tax assessment plan that intentionally over-assessed houses in low income neighborhoods, thereby requiring the residents to pay significantly higher property taxes. The case was ultimately resolved and resulted in significant reforms to the tax assessments in this community.
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The worker was at the service window of the restaurant in the 3800 block of West Harrison Street early Friday when he was shot in the face, police said.
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In Bolingbrook, Granholm and Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., will tour Hyzon, which makes zero-emission, hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles. %PDF-1.4 % So far, the Senate has confirmed 72 judicial nominees, and Biden is not letting up on his bid to fill empty seats on the federal courts. Stanley J. Roszkowski United States Courthouse, Rockford, IL, Lunch will be provided from Noon 1:00 P.M. courtesy of the FBA, Opening remarks by Chief Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, Panelists include: Judge P. Michael Mahoney, Justino Petrarca, Matthew Piers, Tom Lester, and Robert Fagan, Northern District of Illinois Court Historical Association. WASHINGTON The Senate on Tuesday in a history making vote confirmed Chicago attorney Nancy Maldonado to be a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois.
Before private practice, Judge Chang served two federal judicial clerkships, with Judge James L. Ryan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and then-Chief Judge Marvin E. Aspen of the Northern District of Illinois.. In addition, Maldonado, 46, will be the first Hispanic woman ever to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate for a lifetime position as a federal judge in Illinois.
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Instead, federal magistrate judges, who oversee preliminary appearances by criminal defendants and handle other administrative duties, are chosen for their jobs by Senate-confirmed federal district court judges.
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She also secured an important settlement for seasonal farmworkers by bringing a class action case challenging unfair labor practices in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act. Public trust in the judiciary is bolstered when our courts reflect the rich diversity of our country.
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She previously served as an associate and a paralegal at the firm. William T. Hart All rights reserved. Her experience and exceptional career in employment law would be a tremendous asset to the Northern District of Illinois.