Michael Joseph Reagan

Michael Joseph Reagan
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
Incumbent
Assumed office October 1, 2014
Preceded by	David R. Herndon
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
Incumbent
Assumed office October 13, 2000
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	new seat authorized by 71 Stat. 586
Personal details
Born	1954 (age 69–70) Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Alma mater	Bradley University St. Louis University

Michael Joseph Reagan (born 1954) is the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Reagan received a B.S. from Bradley University in 1976 and a J.D. from St. Louis University in 1980. He was a law clerk in the Office of the Appellate Defender for the Fifth Appellate District of Illinois in 1978. He was in private practice from 1979 to 2000, also working as an instructor in business law, Belleville Area College from 1980 to 1983 and as an adjunct assistant professor of law at St. Louis University from 1982 to 1988. He was an assistant public defender for St. Clair County, Illinois from 1996 to 2000.

On May 11, 2000, Reagan was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois new seat created on November 2, 2002 by 116 Stat. 1758. Reagan was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 3, 2000, and received his commission on October 13, 2000. He was designated Chief Judge on October 1, 2014.

Sources

• Michael Joseph Reagan at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.