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Lindsay C. Jenkins
Personal details
Born
Lindsey Carole Clayton

1977 (age 46–47)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
EducationMiami University (BA)
Cleveland State University (JD)

Lindsay Carole Jenkins (born 1977)[1][2] is an American lawyer and former assistant United States attorney from Illinois who is a nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Education

Jenkins received a Bachelor of Arts from Miami University in 1998 and a Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from Cleveland–Marshall College of Law of Cleveland State University in 2002.[3][4]

Career

From 2002 to 2004, she served as a law clerk for Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. From 2004 to 2006, she was an associate at Jones Day. From 2006 to 2021, she was an assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois;[3] she has served in roles, including deputy chief and later chief of the general crimes section and eventually chief of the violent crimes section. In 2016, she was part of a team of lawyers from the United States Department of Justice that investigated the force practices of the Chicago Police Department,[5] being part of the prosecution team in United States v. Aldo Brown.[6] Since 2021, she has been a partner at Cooley LLP in Chicago, [3][7], where her focus is on white collar crime[8] She has taught trial advocacy courses at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She has also taught at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law on the Chicago gun violence epidemic.[5]

Nomination to district court

On July 14, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Jenkins to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.[3] On September 19, 2022, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Jenkins to the seat vacated by Judge John Z. Lee, who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on September 12, 2022.[9] Her nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On October 12, 2022, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  2. ^ "Lindsay Carole Jenkins Profile". www.martindale.com. Retrieved September 22, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "President Biden Names Twenty-Third Round of Judicial Nominees" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. June 29, 2022. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  4. ^ "Lindsay C. Jenkins Profile". www.martindale.com. Retrieved July 15, 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Lindsay C. Jenkins". Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  6. ^ "Lindsay C. Jenkins" (PDF). The Chicago Network. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  7. ^ "Accomplished Federal Prosecutor Joins Cooley in Chicago". www.cooley.com. December 6, 2021. Retrieved July 15, 2022.
  8. ^ https://www.thechicagonetwork.org/members/lindsay-jenkins/
  9. ^ "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. September 19, 2022.
  10. ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. October 9, 2022.
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