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American judge (born 1926)

William J. Bauer


Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Incumbent
Assumed office October 31, 1994
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In office September 1986 – July 31, 1993
Preceded by	Walter J. Cummings Jr.
Succeeded by	Richard Posner
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In office December 20, 1974 – October 31, 1994
Appointed by	Gerald Ford
Preceded by	Otto Kerner Jr.
Succeeded by	Diane Wood
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
In office November 10, 1971 – January 3, 1975
Appointed by	Richard Nixon
Preceded by	Joseph Sam Perry
Succeeded by	Alfred Younges Kirkland Sr.

Personal details
Born	William Joseph Bauer (1926-09-15) September 15, 1926 (age 98) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education	Elmhurst College (AB) DePaul University (JD)

William Joseph Bauer (born September 15, 1926) is an inactive senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago and previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Education and career

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Bauer served in the United States Army from 1945 to 1947. He received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1949 from Elmhurst College and a Juris Doctor in 1952 from DePaul University College of Law. He served as an assistant state's attorney in DuPage County, Illinois from 1952 to 1956, serving as first assistant state's attorney from 1956 to 1958 and serving as state's attorney from 1959 to 1964. He was an instructor at Elmhurst College from 1952 to 1959 and was in private practice in Illinois from 1953 to 1964. He served as a Judge of the Illinois Circuit Court for the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit from 1964 to 1970. He was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1970 to 1971.

Federal judicial service

Bauer was nominated by President Richard Nixon on September 14, 1971, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by Judge Joseph Sam Perry. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 8, 1971, and received his commission on November 10, 1971. His service terminated on January 3, 1975, due to elevation to the Seventh Circuit.

Bauer was nominated by President Gerald Ford on December 11, 1974, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated by Judge Otto Kerner Jr. He was confirmed by the Senate on December 19, 1974, and received his commission on December 20, 1974. He served as Chief Judge from 1986 to 1993. He assumed senior status on October 31, 1994. He was a Member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1987 to 1993.

On April 19, 2018, Bauer wrote the majority opinion striking down Indiana's ban on abortion due to disability as unconstitutional. Bauer was joined by Joel Flaum, over the dissent of Daniel Anthony Manion. This part was upheld in Box v. Planned Parenthood.

Personal life

In 2013, Bauer married Patricia Spratt, an appellate litigator and a shareholder of the firm Shefsky & Froelich. She had previous clerked for Bauer in 1991 and 1992. In 2015, the Illinois Supreme Court appointed Spratt to a vacant judgeship on the 7th subcircuit of the Cook County Circuit Court. She was elected to the judgeship in 2016, and won retention in 2022.

Honor

Bauer was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2010 in the area of Government & Law.

References

^ William Joseph Bauer at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
"7th Circuit blocks disability abortion ban; partial dissent labels the procedure a 'super-right'".
Lat, David (21 March 2013). "Judges in Love: Three Seventh Circuit Judges Getting Married - Above the Law". abovethelaw.com. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
"Spratt appointed Circuit Judge of Cook County, 7th Subcircuit | Illinois State Bar Association". Illinois State Bar Association. August 26, 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
"Patricia S. Spratt". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
"Laureates by Year - The Lincoln Academy of Illinois". The Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Retrieved 2016-03-04.

External links

William Joseph Bauer at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
Appearances on C-SPAN
DCBA Brief Online

Legal offices
Preceded byJoseph Sam Perry	Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois 1971–1975	Succeeded byAlfred Younges Kirkland Sr.
Preceded byOtto Kerner Jr.	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 1974–1994	Succeeded byDiane Wood
Preceded byWalter J. Cummings Jr.	Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 1986–1993	Succeeded byRichard Posner

Judges of the United States courts of appeals

Full list · Names in bold represent current chief judges.

1st Circuit

Active	Barron Gelpí Montecalvo Rikelman Aframe 1 seat vacant
Senior	Campbell Selya Lynch Lipez Howard Thompson Kayatta

2nd Circuit

Active	Livingston Lohier Sullivan Bianco Park Nardini Menashi Lee Robinson Pérez Nathan Merriam Kahn
Senior	Newman Kearse Walker Jacobs Leval Calabresi Cabranes Sack Parker Raggi Wesley Lynch Chin Carney

3rd Circuit

Active	Chagares Jordan Hardiman Shwartz Krause Restrepo Bibas Porter Matey Phipps Freeman Montgomery-Reeves Chung 1 seat vacant
Senior	Scirica Cowen Nygaard Roth McKee Rendell Ambro Fuentes Smith Fisher

4th Circuit

Active	Diaz Wilkinson Niemeyer King Gregory Agee Wynn Thacker Harris Richardson Quattlebaum Rushing Heytens Benjamin Berner
Senior	Motz Traxler Keenan Floyd

5th Circuit

Active	Elrod Jones Smith Stewart Richman Southwick Haynes Graves Higginson Willett Ho Duncan Engelhardt Oldham Wilson Douglas Ramirez
Senior	King Jolly Higginbotham Davis Duhé Wiener Barksdale Dennis Clement

6th Circuit

Active	Sutton Moore Clay Griffin Kethledge Stranch Thapar Bush Larsen Nalbandian Readler Murphy Davis Mathis Bloomekatz Ritz
Senior	Guy Ryan Boggs Norris Suhrheinrich Siler Batchelder Daughtrey Cole Gilman Gibbons Rogers Cook McKeague White

7th Circuit

Active	Sykes Easterbrook Brennan Scudder St. Eve Kirsch Jackson-Akiwumi Lee Pryor Kolar Maldonado
Senior	Bauer Ripple Rovner Hamilton

8th Circuit

Active	Colloton Loken Smith Gruender Benton Shepherd Kelly Erickson Grasz Stras Kobes
Senior	Bowman Wollman Beam Hansen Arnold Melloy

9th Circuit

Active	Murguia Wardlaw Gould Rawlinson Callahan M. Smith Ikuta Christen Nguyen Owens Friedland Bennett R. Nelson Miller Bade Collins Lee Bress Forrest Bumatay VanDyke Koh Sung Sanchez H. Thomas Mendoza Desai Johnstone de Alba
Senior	Wallace Schroeder D. Nelson Canby O'Scannlain Trott Fernandez Kleinfeld Hawkins Tashima S. Thomas Silverman Graber McKeown Fletcher Paez Berzon Tallman Clifton Bybee Bea N. Smith Hurwitz

10th Circuit

Active	Holmes Hartz Tymkovich Matheson Bacharach Phillips McHugh Moritz Eid Carson Rossman Federico
Senior	Seymour Porfilio Anderson Baldock Brorby Ebel Kelly Briscoe Lucero Murphy O'Brien

11th Circuit

Active	W. Pryor Wilson Jordan Rosenbaum J. Pryor Newsom Branch Grant Luck Lagoa Brasher Abudu Kidd (Designate)
Senior	Tjoflat Anderson Edmondson Dubina Black E. Carnes Hull Marcus J. Carnes

D.C. Circuit

Active	Srinivasan Henderson Millett Pillard Wilkins Katsas Rao Walker Childs Pan Garcia
Senior	Edwards Ginsburg Sentelle Randolph Rogers

Federal Circuit

Active	Moore Newman Lourie Dyk Prost Reyna Taranto Chen Hughes Stoll Cunningham Stark
Senior	Mayer Plager Clevenger Schall Bryson Linn Wallach

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