Judge Dow Joins the Northern District Bench

Posted on December 11, 2007 by R. David Donoghue

Late last week, President Bush signed the appointment papers for the Northern District's newest judge, the Honorable Robert M. Dow, Jr.  Judge Dow was sworn-in last Friday by Chief Judge Holderman and is sitting in the Northern District's Eastern Division.  Here is some biographical information about Judge Dow from the Northern District’s announcement of his appointment (click here for the announcement):

From 1993 to 1994, Judge Dow served as Law Clerk to The Honorable Joel M. Flaum of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Since 1995, Judge Dow has been employed at Mayer Brown, LLP, where he specialized in general and appellate litigation, with particular emphasis on telecommunications, state and federal constitutional law, jurisdiction, civil procedure, preemption, mass tort and products liability, admissibility of expert testimony, and class actions. Judge Dow has been acclaimed as a “superb” lawyer in the field of communications and technology law, as recognized by Chambers USA's Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers. In his spare time, Judge Dow serves as Secretary for the Committee of Selection for the Rhodes Scholarships, State of Illinois, and on the Development and Academic Committees of Joliet Catholic Academy. Judge Dow was himself named a Rhodes Scholar in 1990. 

Judge Dow has had a distinguished academic career, with degrees from Yale University (B.A., 1987), University of Oxford (M. Phil. in International Relations, 1990; D. Phil. in International Relations, 1997), and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1993). While at Harvard Law School, in addition to graduating with honors, Judge Dow served as supervising editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation, a member of the Editorial Board for the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard College.

Welcome to the Northern District Judge Dow. Judge Dow’s investiture ceremony is scheduled for Friday, January 11, 2008 at 4:00 pm.

 

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Judge Kapala Joins the Northern District Bench

Posted on May 14, 2007 by R. David Donoghue

Late last week, President Bush signed the appointment papers for the Northern District's newest judge, the Honorable Frederick J. Kapala.  Judge Kapala was sworn-in late last week and is sitting in the Northern District's Western Division.  Here is some biographical information about Judge Kapala from the Northern District's announcement of his appointment:

Judge Kapala graduated from Marquette University and received his law degree from the University of Illinois in 1976. He served as an Assistant State’s Attorney and then went into private practice, where he was appointed as a Special Assistant Attorney General to manage consumer fraud cases in Northern Illinois. He began his judicial career in 1982 as an Associate Judge in Illinois’ 17th Judicial Circuit, serving as Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court from 1989 to 1991. Judge Kapala was elected a Circuit Judge in 1994 and appointed Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division one year later. In 2001, Judge Kapala was assigned to the Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District, where he served on the Illinois Judicial Conference Committee on Discovery Procedures and the Illinois State Judicial Inquiry Board. Judge Kapala is a captain in the U.S. Army.

Welcome to the Northern District Judge Kapala.

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