23 Facts About Lynn Adelman

Lynn Steven Adelman was born on October 1,1939 and is an American lawyer, judge, and former politician.

Lynn Adelman has served as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, since December 1997.

Lynn Adelman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1961 and a Bachelor of Laws from Columbia Law School in 1965.

Lynn Adelman was a trial attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Wisconsin from 1967 to 1968, and then entered private practice in Milwaukee in 1968.

In 1993, Adelman represented Todd Mitchell, a black man convicted of a racially motivated attack against a 14-year old white boy, in Wisconsin v Mitchell, a landmark first amendment case.

Lynn Adelman ran for Congress unsuccessfully three times, in 1974 in the general election, in primaries in 1982, and in 1984 in a special election.

Lynn Adelman was a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 1977 to 1997.

Lynn Adelman was on the Judiciary Committee, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Committee, and the Highway Safety Committee of the State Senate.

Lynn Adelman was nominated by President Bill Clinton on September 8,1997, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin vacated by Judge Thomas John Curran.

Lynn Adelman received a hearing by the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on October 29,1997.

Lynn Adelman was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 13,1997, and received his commission on December 23,1997.

Lynn Adelman ruled, on April 29,2014, that this law violated the fourteenth amendment and thus the law was unconstitutional.

Lynn Adelman made this ruling because in the trial he saw no evidence of voter fraud and concluded that the law was unfair to minority voters because "Blacks and Latinos are more likely than whites to lack an ID".

Lynn Adelman was overturned on appeal with the Appeals Court offering a particularly stunning rebuke:.

Lynn Adelman's ruling on this case was that Johnny Kimble was denied pay raises because of his race and that the Department of Workforce Development was to pay Johnny Kimble what he lost.

Lynn Adelman said that Sheehan Donoghue made statements that contradicted to what she said and what other witnesses said, she got defensive and evasive during the questioning, and the evidence on the case did not support her claims.

In June 2017, Lynn Adelman found that Tony Evers, then Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin, did not violate the Constitution's Free Exercise Clause nor its Establishment Clause when he denied bussing to an independent Catholic school because there was a nearby archdiocesan school.

Lynn Adelman's judgment was affirmed by a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in October 2018.

Lynn Adelman sentenced Sachdeva to 11 years in federal prison on November 17,2010.

Lynn Adelman gave some leniency to Sachdeva because of her cooperation with the FBI.

In February 2020, Lynn Adelman wrote an article criticizing the recent record of the Supreme Court of the United States under Chief Justice John Roberts The article singled out Chief Justice Roberts and accused him of actively participating in "undermining American democracy," through activist decisions on voting rights and campaign finance by corporate interests.

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley argued that the article makes "a better case of bias against himself than he does Chief Justice John Roberts" and noted previous articles where Lynn Adelman had directly criticized conservatives while serving as a federal judge.

The Judicial Council for the Seventh Circuit censured Judge Lynn Adelman for writing this article.