Heather McShain

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Heather K. McShain is a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

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Federal judges who have served the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Active judges

Chief Judge: Virginia Kendall • Robert Dow • Sharon Coleman • Edmond E. Chang • Jorge L. Alonso • Franklin U. Valderrama • John Tharp, Jr. • Mary Rowland • Sara Lee Ellis • Andrea R. Wood • Manish Shah • Iain D. Johnston • John Robert Blakey • LaShonda A. Hunt • Martha Pacold • Steven Seeger • John Kness • Jeffrey Cummings • Sunil Harjani • Lindsay Jenkins • Jeremy Daniel • Georgia Alexakis • April Perry

Senior judges

Marvin Aspen • Elaine Bucklo • Suzanne Conlon • Robert Gettleman • Joan Gottschall • Ronald Guzman • Frederick Kapala • Matthew Kennelly • Charles Kocoras • Joan Lefkow • George Marovich • Charles Norgle • Rebecca Pallmeyer • Philip Reinhard • James Zagel • Thomas M. Durkin •

Magistrate judges

Jeffrey Cole • Susan Cox • Maria Valdez • Sheila Finnegan • Jeffrey Gilbert • Young Kim (Illinois) • Daniel G. Martin • David Weisman • Gabriel Fuentes • Lisa Jensen • Beth Jantz • Heather McShain • Margaret Schneider •

Former Article III judges

James Holderman • Wayne Andersen • Ruben Castillo • David Coar • John Darrah • Samuel Der-Yeghiayan • John F. Grady • William Hart • William Hibbler • Harry Leinenweber • George Lindberg • Blanche Manning • James B. Moran • John Nordberg • Ann Williams (Federal judge) • Paul Plunkett • Joel Flaum • Brian Duff • Ilana Rovner • Mark Filip • Milton Shadur • Thomas Drummond • Henry Williams Blodgett • William Bauer • Philip Tone • Peter Stenger Grosscup • Christian Cecil Kohlsaat • Solomon Hicks Bethea • Kenesaw Mountain Landis • George Albert Carpenter • Adam Cliffe • James Herbert Wilkerson • John Peter Barnes • George Johnson (Illinois) • William Harrison Holly • Philip Leo Sullivan • Michael Igoe • William Lynch (Illinois) • James Alesia • Richard Austin • Nicholas Bua • William Campbell (Illinois) • John Crowley (Illinois) • Bernard Decker • Susan Getzendanner • Julius Hoffman • Alfred Kirkland • Winfred Knoch • Walter LaBuy • George Leighton • Abraham Marovitz • Prentice Marshall • Frank McGarr • Richard McLaren • Thomas McMillen • Julius Miner • Alexander Napoli • James B. Parsons • Joseph Perry (Illinois) • Edwin Robson • Stanley Roszkowski • Elwyn Shaw • Hubert Will • Charles Woodward • Gary Feinerman • John Z. Lee (Illinois) • Nancy Maldonado •

Former Chief judges

Marvin Aspen • Ruben Castillo • John F. Grady • Charles Kocoras • James B. Moran • Rebecca Pallmeyer • John Peter Barnes • Philip Leo Sullivan • William Campbell (Illinois) • Frank McGarr • James B. Parsons • Edwin Robson •

Illinois courts

Federal courts:

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Central District of Illinois, Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of Illinois • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Central District of Illinois, Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of Illinois

State courts:

Illinois Supreme Court • Illinois Appellate Court • Illinois Circuit Court

State resources:

Courts in Illinois • Illinois judicial elections • Judicial selection in Illinois

Heather McShain

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