35 Facts About Marvin Aspen

Marvin E Aspen was born on July 11,1934 and is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Marvin Aspen received a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University in 1956 and a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1958.

Marvin Aspen was a law clerk in the Court of Claims Section of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, DC in 1958.

Marvin Aspen was in the Illinois National Guard from 1958 to 1960, and was an Air Force Reserve Command airman from 1960 to 1964.

Marvin Aspen was in private practice as an attorney in Chicago from 1958 to 1959, and in 1971, serving in the interim as an assistant state attorney of Cook County, Illinois, from 1960 to 1963, and as an assistant corporation counsel for the City of Chicago from 1963 to 1971, where he was head of the Appeals and Review Division.

Marvin Aspen was appointed to the Circuit Court of Cook County for an interim position on September 16,1971, and on November 4,1974, was elected to a full term.

Marvin Aspen served five years in the Criminal Division and three years in the Civil Law-Jury Division.

For more than three decades, Marvin Aspen has taught courses in evidence, criminal law, trial technique, and municipal law at Northwestern University School of Law.

Marvin Aspen has lectured at university, United States government, and other legal education programs.

Marvin Aspen has planned and participated in legal seminars at Harvard University, Emory University, University of Florida, University of Mississippi, Oxford University, University of Bologna, Nuremberg University, University of Cairo, University of Zimbabwe, University of Malta, University of the Philippines, and the University of Madrid.

Marvin Aspen has served as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Criminal Justice of the John Marshall Law School and as a member of the Georgetown University Law Center Project on Plea Bargaining in the United States.

Marvin Aspen has been a frequent faculty member of the National College of the State Judiciary, University of Nevada and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Marvin Aspen has served on a special faculty for the NITA Advanced Trial Advocacy Program, which introduces British trial techniques to experienced American Litigators.

Marvin Aspen has served on a special faculty for an American Bar Association program, which is designed to acquaint Scottish lawyers with modern litigation and technology.

Marvin Aspen's publications include five books and more than two dozen articles.

Marvin Aspen was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on July 23,1979, and received his commission on July 24,1979.

Marvin Aspen served as chief judge from 1995 to 2002, assuming senior status on July 1,2002.

On January 23,2019, Marvin Aspen signed an order approving a settlement agreement between the plaintiffs and the CHA.

In 1991, Marvin Aspen presided over the trial of six leaders and a financer of the El Rukn street gang.

In June 1992, Marvin Aspen sentenced five of the defendants to life in prison and the other two defendants to fifty years.

Marvin Aspen presided over a burglary case involving former Chicago boxer Johnny Lira.

Marvin Aspen is credited with giving Lira a compassionate criminal sentence that allowed Lira to continue his boxing career.

Marvin Aspen is a past member of the board of the Federal Judicial Center.

Marvin Aspen has served as a member of the United States Judicial Conference and the conference's Committees on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System, Trial Bar Implementation, and Foreign Court Relationship.

Marvin Aspen served as Chair of the Committee on Civility of the Seventh Federal Judicial Circuit.

Marvin Aspen has served as a member of the board of managers of the Chicago Bar Association, as chair of the Criminal Law Committee, and as a member of the board of editors of the Chicago Bar Record.

Marvin Aspen has been a member of the Chicago Bar Association's Special Commission on Criminal Justice, Committee on Continuing Legal Education, and Committee on Development of Law.

Marvin Aspen was a founding member of the board of trustees of the American Inns of Court Foundation.

Marvin Aspen is a past president of the Northwestern University School of Law American Inns of Court Chapter.

Marvin Aspen was a draftsman for and a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee to Revise the Illinois Criminal Code of 1961, chair of the Associate Rules Committee of the Illinois Supreme Court, chair of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Ordinance Violation Problems, and vice-chair of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases.

Marvin Aspen was a member of the Federal Bar Examination Committee of the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

Marvin Aspen served on the Governor's Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice.

Marvin Aspen has been a member of the Cook County Board of Corrections and the board of the John Howard Association.

Marvin Aspen is a recipient of the Center For Public Resources Award for Significant Practical Achievement for Excellence and Innovation for Alternative Dispute Resolutions and Dispute Management.

Marvin Aspen has received the Northwestern University Alumni Association Award of Merit and an award from the National Center for Freedom of Information Studies.