1. Gary Scott Feinerman was born on February 19,1965 and is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
12 Facts About Gary Feinerman
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Gary Feinerman graduated from Stanford Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1991, where he finished second in his class and was a member of the Stanford Law Review and Order of the Coif.
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From 1991 until 1992, Gary Feinerman worked as a law clerk to Judge Joel Flaum of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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From 1992 until 1993, Gary Feinerman worked as an associate in the Chicago law firm of Mayer Brown.
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From 1993 until 1994, Gary Feinerman worked as a law clerk for Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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From 1994 until 1996, Gary Feinerman worked for the United States Department of Justice as counsel to the Office of Policy Development and on detail to the Office of the Counsel of the President in 1995.
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Gary Feinerman served as a partner at the firm from 2000 to 2003.
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From 2003 to 2007, Gary Feinerman worked in the office of the Illinois Attorney General as the state's solicitor general.
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On November 5,2003, Feinerman argued before the US Supreme Court for petitioner in Illinois v Lidster.
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In 2007, Gary Feinerman joined the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin as a partner, where he worked until becoming a United States district judge.
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In 2009, Gary Feinerman applied for a vacant federal judgeship in Chicago.
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In 2020, Gary Feinerman vacated a policy implemented by the Trump administration that permitted immigration officials to deny green cards to applicants by creating a wealth test for individuals seeking permanent residency in the United States.