United States District Court
Northern District of Illinois

Judge Joan B. Gottschall

Chambers: (312) 435-5640

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

DATE OF APPOINTMENT
August, 1996

ENTERED ON DUTY
September, 1996

EMPLOYMENT

• 1984-1996 United States Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  
  
• 1981-1984 Attorney, Office of Legal Counsel, The University of Chicago

• 1977-1980 Staff Attorney, Federal Defender Program, Chicago, Illinois
  
  
• 1972-1976 Jenner & Block, Chicago, Illinois
  1978-1982
  
  

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

University of Chicago Divinity School, Visiting Committee, 1991-Present (Chair, 1998-2001)

Board of Directors, University of Chicago Divinity School Martin Marty Center, 2002-Present

Board of Directors, Illinois Humanities Council, 2002

Chair, District 10 Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, 2005, 2006, 2007

 

BAR MEMBERSHIP

Chicago Bar Association (Co-chair, Alliance for Women, 1995-1996)

 

EDUCATION

Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts B.A. cum laude, 1969

Stanford Law School, Stanford, California J.D. 1973

 

PUBLICATIONS

“Factfinding as a Spiritual Discipline,” 4 U. St. Thomas L.J. 325 (2006)

“Mural, Mural on the Wall: Ownership of WPA Artworks,” 15 CBA Record 38 (November 2001)

“A Tribute to Barry Sullivan,” 57 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 309 (2000)

“The Role and Influence of Religious Values in Judicial Decisionmaking: A Response to Judge Wendell Griffin,” 81 Marq. L. Rev. 533 (1998)

Co-author (with W. Thomas Rosemond, Jr.), Just the Beginning: A Celebration of the Integration of the Federal Judiciary (West Publishing Co., 1992)

 

PERSONAL

Born: 1947 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee