From Federal Judicial Center Web site http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2882
Lefkow, Joan Humphrey
Born 1944 in Rural Nemaha County, KS
Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Nominated by William J. Clinton on May 11, 2000, to a seat vacated by Ann C. Williams; Confirmed by the Senate on June 30, 2000, and received commission on July 11, 2000.
Education:
Wheaton College, A.B., 1965
Northwestern University Law School, J.D., 1971
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Thomas E. Fairchild, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1971-1972
Staff attorney, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, Inc., 1972-1975
Administrative law judge, Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1975-1979
Instructor, University of Miami Law School, 1980-1981
Executive director, Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc., 1981-1982
U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1982-1997
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of Illinois, 1997-2000
Race or Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
"Nominated by William J. Clinton on May 11, 2000" My first reaction to this story was to google Joan Humphery and Clinton.
The Senate didn't take years and years and years???
Nominated by William J. Clinton on May 11, 2000, to a seat vacated by Ann C. Williams; Confirmed by the Senate on June 30, 2000
And the Democrats say that Republicans ALSO held up many of their appointments: not this one anyway.
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