On January 31, 2023, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Jeffrey Irvine Cummings to be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, filling a seat opened by operation of law after Judge Robert Dow was appointed by Justice John Roberts as counselor to the chief justice. Judge Cummings, previously serving as a magistrate for the Northern District of Illinois, spent the majority of his career prior as a civil rights litigator. He was confirmed on September 12, 2023.
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