Outlaw presents LGBT Issues in the Law Week: From the Closet to the Bench with JUDGE MARY ROWLAND, Magistrate Judge, Northern District of Illinois

Magistrate Judge Rowland is a native of Akron, Ohio. She attended the University of Michigan for undergrad, and then the University of Chicago for law school. After law school, she clerked for District Judge Julian Cook in Detroit, Michigan. Following her clerkship, Judge Rowland worked as a staff attorney and then Chief Appellate Attorney for the Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Illinois. During that time, she represented over 275 indigent defendants in every aspect of a federal criminal case, including trying several federal criminal jury trials and arguing many cases before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. 

While at the Federal Defender Program, Judge Rowland spoke at seminars about the sentencing guidelines and persuasive legal writing. In 2000, Judge Rowland joined the law firm Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, where she led the criminal defense practice and also litigated many high-profile civil cases. Judge Rowland was sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge on October 1, 2012. Since 2009, Judge Rowland has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Between 2008 and 2012, she was a member of the Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program, serving as co-chair of the Education Committee.

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