Gary Feinerman has served since September 2010 as a district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He has served on the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules, the Executive Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity Plan and Employment Dispute Resolution Plan for the Seventh Circuit, and the Devitt Award Selection Committee. He teaches at University of Chicago Law School and sits on the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors. Prior to joining the bench, Feinerman was a partner in the Chicago office of Sidley Austin LLP in the firm’s general litigation and appellate groups. From 2003-2007, Feinerman served as Solicitor General of Illinois in the Office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Feinerman was a litigation associate and then a partner from 1996-2003 in the Chicago office of the firm now known as Mayer Brown LLP. Earlier in his career, Feinerman served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court and to Judge Joel Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and also worked for the U.S. Department of Justice as Counsel in the Office of Policy Development and on detail to the Office of the Counsel of the President. A graduate of Stanford Law School and Yale College, Feinerman resides with his spouse and three daughters north of Chicago.