Saint Louis University School of Law
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Saint Louis University School of Law http://law.slu.edu/, also known as SLU LAW, is a private American law school
Law school
A law school is an institution specializing in legal education.- Law degrees :- Canada :...

 located in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

. It is one of the professional graduate schools of Saint Louis University
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis University is a private, co-educational Jesuit university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg SLU is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River. It is one of 28 member institutions of the...

. Opened in 1843, it is the first law school west of the Mississippi River. The school has been ABA
American Bar Association
The American Bar Association , founded August 21, 1878, is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The ABA's most important stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools, and the formulation...

 approved since 1924 and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools
Association of American Law Schools
The Association of American Law Schools is a non-profit organization of 170 law schools in the United States. Another 25 schools are "non-member fee paid" schools, which are not members but choose to pay AALS dues. Its purpose is to improve the legal profession through the improvement of legal...

. Housed in Morrissey Hall, the law school has the highest enrollment of law students in Missouri. It offers both full- and part-time programs. The school is also home to the Omer Poos Law Library, which is one of the largest law libraries in the state of Missouri.http://officialguide.lsac.org/OFFGUIDE/pdf/aba6629.pdf Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court....

 studied for his bar exam at the Omer Poos Law Library.

It was the first ABA law school in St. Louis to accept African-American students. In 1908, the law school accepted its first female law students.

Degree programs

Most students are enrolled in the full-time J.D. program. SLU LAW has the only part-time J.D. program in St. Louis. The school also offers dual-degree programs and an LL.M in Health Law
Health law
Health Law is the federal, state, and local law, rules, regulations and other jurisprudence affecting the health care industry and their application to health care patients, providers and payors, and vendors to the health care industry, including without limitation the relationships among...

 and an LL.M Program in American Law for Foreign Lawyers.

Full-time program

During their first year, full-time students are required to take 15 hours per semester to complete the core courses (torts, contracts, civil procedure
Civil procedure
Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the rules and standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits...

, property
Property
Property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation...

, constitutional law
Constitutional law
Constitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary....

 I, criminal law
Criminal law
Criminal law, is the body of law that relates to crime. It might be defined as the body of rules that defines conduct that is not allowed because it is held to threaten, harm or endanger the safety and welfare of people, and that sets out the punishment to be imposed on people who do not obey...

, and legal research and writing). After the first year, full-time upper-division students are required to take a seminar, a humanities course, a professional skills course and Legal Profession. Students select from more than 150 hours of upper-division course electives to complete the required 91 credit hours.

The evening program

There is an evening program with classes three to four nights a week; students in this program can earn their Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...

 degree in four to five years.

Dual-degree programs

  • J.D./Master of Accounting
  • J.D./Master of Business Administration
    Master of Business Administration
    The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...

  • J.D./Master of Health Administration
  • J.D./Master of Arts in Public Administration
  • J.D./Master of Arts in Sociology and CriminalJustice
  • J.D./Master of Arts in Urban Affairs
  • J.D./Master of Public Health
    Master of Public Health
    The Master of Public Health and the Doctor of Public Health are multi-disciplinary professional degrees awarded for studies in areas related to public health....

  • J.D./Master of Public Health - Health Policy
  • J.D./Master of Social Work
    Master of Social Work
    The Master of Social Work is a master's degree in social workand especiality of sociology.- United States :In the United States, MSW degrees must be received from a graduate school that has been approved by the Council on Social Work Education...

  • J.D./Doctor of Philosophy
    Doctor of Philosophy
    Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

     in Health Care Ethics

Center for Health Law Studies

Since its establishment before 1990, the Center for Health Law Studies is consistently listed first in health law by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...

. St. Louis, home to Barnes Hospital
Barnes Hospital
Barnes Hospital, also known as Barnes Convalescent Home, in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, is a former hospital. It is located near to the A34 road and is in the middle of the complex interchange between the A34, M60 motorway and M56 motorway. Whilst the hospital was constructed in a rural...

 carries out medical and biotechnology research. The Center has eleven full-time faculty members who publish work in law, medicine and ethical journals.

The Center offers a broad range of health law courses taught by full-time faculty, including foundational and specialized health law courses each semester.

Center for International and Comparative Law

The Center for International and Comparative Law promotes international legal scholarship within the law school. Faculty members teach pragmatic and theory based courses, such as public international law, international trade
International trade
International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories. In most countries, such trade represents a significant share of gross domestic product...

, multinational corporate responsibility, international tax, comparative law
Comparative law
Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries. More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law...

, immigration law
Immigration law
Immigration law refers to national government policies which control the phenomenon of immigration to their country.Immigraton law, regarding foreign citizens, is related to nationality law, which governs the legal status of people, in matters such as citizenship...

, comparative criminal law, gender rights and international human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

. Speakers and practitioners are also invited to the school to discuss and teach. Students are eligible to earn a certificate from the Center, as well as study abroad in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, Berlin, Orléans
Orléans
-Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...

, Paris, Bochum
Bochum
Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area and is surrounded by the cities of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten and Hattingen.-History:...

, and Cork
Cork (city)
Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...

. The Center also has a Jessup Moot Court Team, which advanced on to the semi-final rounds of the Southwest Super Regionals in 2009 in Houston, Texas, and subsequently won third place for best brief overall.

Center for Employment Law

The Center’s extensive curriculum offers a broad range of courses addressing the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees, including the prohibition of discrimination; establishment of collective bargaining relationships in the private and public sector; regulation of employee benefits, health and safety in the workplace; and arbitration and mediation of labor and employment disputes. To obtain a certificate in employment law, students complete 11 hours of approved coursework in the employment field and write a paper of publishable quality on an employment law topic in addition to receiving a J.D. degree. All students in the Certificate program take the basic law labor course. The Center enhances the students’ exposure to critical issues in labor and employment law by presenting conferences that explore current significant topics in the field. Every year, the student-sponsored Employment Law Association and the Center offer a variety of extra-curricular programs for students that address new legal developments, career opportunities and employment law practice.

Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law & Advocacy

Through the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law & Advocacy (CISLA), established in 2011, current and future lawyers will attain a broad range of skills to use in further advancing change, advocacy and legal theory. The Center brings together two distinct areas of legal education – scholarly research and experiential practice – under the umbrella of interdisciplinary studies. Through collaboration with scholars, professors, the judiciary, lawyers and professionals in complementary areas of study and research including psychology, anthropology, economics and communications, students will gain new perspectives that will allow them to become stronger advocates for their clients. The Center will sponsor lectures, symposia, research initiatives and other educational events that showcase advocacy across different disciplines.

Clinics

SLU LAW professors and students annually provide more than 39,000 hours of free legal service, totaling an estimated $3.9 million, to the community through the School of Law's Legal Clinics and public service programs. The Legal Clinics offer SLU LAW upper division students invaluable practical experience while providing valuable legal services to the community. Students are able to appear in court on cases under Missouri's Student Practice Rule. A full-time faculty member supervises the in-house students.

In-House Clinics

  • Appellate Advocacy
  • Criminal Defense
  • Estate Planning
  • Elder Law
  • Special Education
  • Children's Advocacy
  • Juvenile Law
  • Homeless Veterans
  • Consumer Rights
  • Landlord-Tennant Law
  • Community Development
  • Small Business Development
  • Civil Rights
  • Family Law
  • Immigration
  • Mediation

Externships

  • Health Law Externships including Semester in Washington, D.C.
  • Prosecutor Externships
  • Public Defender Externships
  • Public Interest/Government Externships
  • Transactional/Tax Externships
  • Judicial Externships

Concentrations

The school offers "concentrations" in business transaction law, civil litigation skills, criminal litigation skills, intellectual property law, taxation, and urban development, land use and environment law. Each of these concentrations has different requirements, and the course of study is much more specific and focused than the certificates.

Certificates

The school offers "certificates" in Employment Law, Health Law, and International & Comparative Law. SLU Law offers certificates in three concentrations for students wishing to supplement their law degree with a special area of emphasis.

Examinations

First-year students take four final examinations each semester, one for each class other than legal research and writing. All other students self-schedule their exams. Generally the exam period is two weeks long; graduating students are required to complete exams in a shorter time. Students may choose between typing their exams on laptop computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

s or handwriting them. As at most other law schools, exams are graded on a curve determined by the section.

Admissions

The 75th to 25th percentile of undergraduate GPA for the fall 2011 entering class was 3.58-3.13. The 75th to 25th percentile of LSAT score was 158-151.

Facilities

The law school is housed in three buildings. Morrissey Hall houses the bulk of the law school, including the law library, four large lecture halls, faculty offices, and some administrative space. Queen's Daughters Hall is a historic building and houses the rest of the administrative offices and meeting rooms. The law school also has a separate clinic building located on Spring Street, one block from the main building. The clinic was renovated and enlarged in 2008.

SLU LAW also recently unveiled plans for a new building. The law school is currently attempting to raise the estimated $30–35 million necessary, with the original estimation of groundbreaking in 2010. Plans for the new building were postponed indefinitely after the financial crisis of 2007–2010. http://www.slu.edu/x30420.xml

Rankings

In the 2012 U.S. News & World Report rankings, Saint Louis University School of Law was ranked 104 in “The Top Schools” list. The part-time program is ranked 28 of 80 part-time programs. In the new category “When Lawyers Do the Grading,” the School of Law is ranked 67 by recruiters and hiring partners at highly rated firms. SLU's Center for Health Law Studies maintained its No. 1 position as the best health law program in the country for the 8th consecutive year.

Student publications

The school has three student-edited academic law journals:
  • Saint Louis University Law Journal http://law.slu.edu/journals/LawJournal/index.html - The Journal is SLU Law's oldest and largest law journal at SLU Law. It publishes four times a year. The Journal hosts a spring symposium and the fall Childress Lecture, named for a former dean of the law school.
  • Saint Louis University Public Law Review http://law.slu.edu/journals/LawReview/index.html - The Public Law Review is a specialty journal focusing on public interest issues. It publishes twice a year and hosts an annual spring symposium.
  • Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy http://law.slu.edu/healthlaw/journal/index.html - The Journal of Health Law and Policy is another specialty journal that is paired with the law school's health law center. It publishes twice a year and hosts a spring health law symposium together with the center.


The Saint Louis Brief http://law.slu.edu/brief/index.html is a publication about the law school that is distributed to alumni and supporters.

Students also publish the 1843 Reporter, an independent student newspaper administered and funded without assistance from the school. It publishes bi-monthly and seeks to foster a sense of community and on-campus dialogue, as well as provide an outlet for students wishing to publish in a non-journal forum.

Student organizations

SLU law school has nearly 30 student organizations http://law.slu.edu/studentlife/organizations/index.html. The organizations' funding is distributed in part by the law school's student government, the Student Bar Association (SBA)http://law.slu.edu/studentlife/sba/index.html. Organizations include:
  • American Constitution Society
  • American Trial Lawyers Association
  • Animal Law
  • A Real Community Here (ARCH)
  • Asian American Law Students Association (AALSA)
  • Black Law Students' Association (BLSA)
  • Business Law Association (BLA)
  • Christian Legal Society
  • Criminal Law Society
  • Employment Law Association
  • Environmental Law Society (ELS)
  • Federalist Society
    Federalist Society
    The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, most frequently called simply the Federalist Society, is an organization of conservatives seeking reform of the current American legal system in accordance with a textualist and/or originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution...

  • Health Law Association
  • Hispanic Law Student Association
  • International Law Students' Association (ILSA)
  • Jewish Legal Society
  • Older Wiser Law Students
  • OUTLAWS
  • Phi Alpha Delta
    Phi Alpha Delta
    ΦAΔ , or P.A.D., is the largest co-ed professional law fraternity in the United States of America. Phi Alpha Delta has members who are university students, law school students, lawyers, judges, senators, and even presidents. It was founded in 1902 and today has over 300,000 initiated members...

     (PAD)
  • Phi Delta Phi
    Phi Delta Phi
    Phi Delta Phi, ΦΔΦ, is the world's second largest legal fraternity. Phi Delta Phi is the second oldest legal organization in continuous existence in the United States and third oldest in North America...

     (PDP)
  • Public Interest Law Group (PILG)
  • Sports and Entertainment Law Association
  • St. Thomas More Society
  • Student Intellectual Property Law Association (SIPLA)
  • Student Legal Writers' Association
  • Veteran's Law Student Association
  • Women Law Students' Association

Notable faculty

  • Thomas L. Greaney, current, health law
  • Nicolas P. Terry, current, health law
  • Roger Goldman, current, constitutional law, criminal procedure
  • Joel K. Goldstein, current, constitutional law, specialist in the Vice Presidency of the United States
  • Stephen C. Thaman, current, comparative criminal law
  • Isaak Dore, current, international law
  • SpearIt, current, criminal law, sports and entertainment law
  • Ann M. Scarlett, current, former clerk of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
  • Hon. Michael A. Wolff
    Michael A. Wolff
    Michael A. Wolff was a Judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri. He served on the Supreme Court between 1998 and 2011, and as Chief Justice from 2005 to 2007. Prior to his appointment the Court, he served in the office of Governor Mel Carnahan, as chief counsel from 1993 to 1994, and as special...

     (1975–1998, current Judge on the Missouri Supreme Court) http://www.courts.mo.gov/page.asp?id=153
  • Hauwa Ibrahim
    Hauwa Ibrahim
    Hauwa Ibrahim is a Nigerian human rights lawyer who won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize in 2005. She was especially cited for her pro bono work defending people condemned under the Islamic Sharia laws that are in force in the northern Nigerian provinces, including her defence of Amina...

     (Fall 2006)
  • Thomas Eagleton
    Thomas Eagleton
    Thomas Francis Eagleton was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1968–1987. He is best remembered for briefly being the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972...

    , visiting faculty (2005–2006)
  • Joseph J. Simeone (1947–1972)
  • Hon. Theodore McMillian
    Theodore McMillian
    Theodore McMillian was the first African American to serve on the Missouri Court of Appeals.-Education:...

     (1952–1972)
  • Richard J. Childress, former Dean 1969-1976
  • Alphonse G. Eberle, former Dean
  • Paul Blakwell, former Dean
  • J. Norman McDonough, former Dean 1953-1961
  • Charles B. Blackmar (1966–1982)
  • Eileen H. Searls
  • Vincent C. Immel (1958–2004), former Dean
  • John F.T. Murray, former Dean
  • Stanislaw Frankowski
  • Donald B. King

Notable alumni

  • Eric Barnhart, 1999 - Chair, Missouri Public Defender Commission, 2006-2011 (term as Commissioner)
  • Freeman Bosley, Jr.
    Freeman Bosley, Jr.
    Freeman R. Bosley Jr. was the forty-third mayor of St. Louis , and the city's first African-American mayor.-Early life and education:...

    , 1979) - former Mayor of the City of St. Louis (1993–1997)
  • Jack Buechner
    Jack Buechner
    John William "Jack" Buechner is an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri. A Republican, Buechner served in the United States House of Representatives for Missouri's 2nd congressional district from 1987 to 1991...

  • Tom Burke, 1981, 2008 President-elect Missouri Bar
  • Ben Dogra
    Ben Dogra
    Ben Dogra is an American sports agent who, until July, headed the Football Division of SFX Football, with associate Mark Heligman. Dogra graduated from George Mason University with a B.S. in Economics, then earned his law degree from St. Louis University School of Law. He previously founded his own...

    , Sports agent
  • Richard Dooling
    Richard Dooling
    Richard Patrick Dooling is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel White Man's Grave, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award for Fiction, and for co-producing and co-writing the 2004 ABC miniseries Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.Dooling's first novel, Critical...

  • Lowe Finney
    Lowe Finney
    Lowe Finney is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Tennessee Senate for the 27th district, which is composed of Madison, Gibson, and Carroll counties.-Education and career:...

    , Tennessee State Senator
  • Mary Fox, 1980 - current District Defender, City of St. Louis (2007–present)
  • Michael R. Gibbons
    Michael R. Gibbons
    Michael R. Gibbons is a former Republican member of the Missouri Senate, representing the 15th District from 2001-2009. He served as President pro tempore. Previously he was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1993 through 2000...

     - Current President Pro Tem of the Missouri Senate
    Missouri Senate
    The Missouri State Senate is the upper chamber of the Missouri General Assembly. It has 34 members, representing districts with an average population of 160,000...

  • William R. Haine
    William R. Haine
    William R. Haine is a Democratic Senator representing Illinois’s 56th District. A graduate of St. Louis University, where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree and Juris Doctorate , the Alton, Illinois native also served as a member of the Madison County Board and of the Metro-East Transit District...

  • Robert E. Hannegan
    Robert E. Hannegan
    Robert Emmet Hannegan was a St. Louis, Missouri politician who served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue from October 1943 to January 1944. He also served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1944 to 1947 and United States Postmaster General from 1945 to 1947...

    , LL.B. 1925 http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hstpaper/hannegan.htm
  • Connie L. Johnson
    Connie L. Johnson
    Connie LaJoyce Johnson is a Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives, representing District 61 since 2001...

    , 1996 - MO State Representative
  • Robert P. McCulloch, 1977 - current Prosecuting Attorney, St. Louis County, Missouri
  • David Merrick
    David Merrick
    David Merrick was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.-Life and career:Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington University, then studied law at the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University School of Law...

  • John M. Nations - 1988 - current Major of the City of Chesterfield, Missouri
    Chesterfield, Missouri
    Chesterfield is a second-ring western suburb of St. Louis and is the largest city in west St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2010 census the population is 47,484. Chesterfield also celebrated its 20th birthday in 2008.- Geography :...

     (2001–present)
  • Laura O'Sullivan - current District Defender, St. Louis County (2007–present)
  • Hon.Dorothy A. Robinson, 1967 -Superior Court Judge, Cobb County, Georgia
  • Francis G. Slay
    Francis G. Slay
    Francis G. Slay is the forty-fifth mayor of St. Louis .- Education and early career :...

    , 1980 - current Mayor of the City of St. Louis (2001–present)
  • Joyce Slocum - Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs, and General Counsel (NPR)
  • John B. Sullivan
    John B. Sullivan
    John Berchmans Sullivan was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri. He was a Democrat. He was married to Leonor Kretzer Sullivan....

  • Joseph P. Teasdale
    Joseph P. Teasdale
    Joseph Patrick Teasdale is an American politician. He served as the 48th Governor of Missouri from 1977 to 1981. He is member of the Democratic Party....

     - former Governor of Missouri
  • Buzz Westfall
    Buzz Westfall
    George "Buzz" Westfall was an American lawyer and politician. He served in the elected offices of Prosecuting Attorney and County Executive of St. Louis County, Missouri. He died, while in office, of staph. aureous meningitis. He was a Democrat.Westfall grew up in public housing in St. Louis....

  • Wyvetter H. Younge
    Wyvetter H. Younge
    Wyvetter H. Younge was a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 114th District from 1975 until 2008. She served as the Assistant Majority Leader later in her career. Her district included Alorton, Belleville, Brooklyn, Cahokia, Centreville, East St...

  • Ben Ysursa
    Ben Ysursa
    Ben T. Ysursa, born October 15, 1949, in Boise, Idaho, is the Secretary of State of Idaho, United States. He was elected on the Republican Party ticket.-Family:...

    , 1974 - current Idaho Secretary of State

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District

  • Hon. Nannette Baker, 1984
  • Hon. Walter Bennick
  • Hon. Kathianne Knaup Crane
  • Hon. Robert G. Dowd, Sr.
  • Hon. Carl R. Gaertner, 1948
  • Hon. Theodore McMillian
    Theodore McMillian
    Theodore McMillian was the first African American to serve on the Missouri Court of Appeals.-Education:...

    , 1949
  • Hon. Paul J. Simon
  • Hon. Robert O. Snyder
  • Hon. Albert J. Stephan, Jr.
  • Hon. Joseph Stewart

United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri

  • Hon. Henry Edward Autrey
    Henry Edward Autrey
    Henry Edward Autrey is a United States federal judge.Born in Mobile, Alabama, Autrey received a B.S. from St. Louis University in 1974 and a J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law in 1977. He was an assistant circuit attorney for the City of St. Louis, Missouri from 1977 to 1984, and then...

    , 1977
  • Hon. Clyde S. Jr Cahill, 1951
  • Hon. Edward Louis Filippine
    Edward Louis Filippine
    Edward Louis Filippine is a United States federal judge.Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Filippine received an A.B. from Saint Louis University in 1951 and a J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1957. He was a U.S. Air Force from 1951 to 1953. He was in private practice in Clayton and St....

    , 1957 http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf
  • Hon. Donald J. Stohr
    Donald J. Stohr
    Donald J. Stohr is a United States federal judge.Born in Sedalia, Missouri, Stohr received a B.S. from Saint Louis University in 1956 and a J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1958. He was in private practice in St. Louis, Missouri from 1958 to 1962. He was a First assistant county...

    , 1958

United States District Court, Southern District of Illinois

  • Hon. Omer Poos
    Omer Poos
    Omer Poos was a United States federal judge.Born in Mount Olive, Illinois, Poos received an LL.B. from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1924. He was in private practice in Mount Olive from 1924 to 1939, and then in Hillsboro, Illinois until 1958.On August 16, 1958, Poos was nominated by...

  • Hon. Michael Joseph Reagan
    Michael Joseph Reagan
    Michael Joseph Reagan is a United States federal judge.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...

  • Hon. William D. Stiehl

United States District Court, Central District of Illinois

  • Hon. Michael P. McCuskey
    Michael P. McCuskey
    Michael Patrick McCuskey is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, with chambers in Urbana, Illinois. He became a judge in 1998 by way of nomination by President President Bill Clinton...

  • Hon. Michael M. Mihm
    Michael M. Mihm
    Michael Martin Mihm is an incumbent United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, with chambers in Peoria, Illinois. He became a judge in 1982 by way of nomination by President Ronald Reagan...


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