| Amy J. St. Eve | |
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| Judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 2002 |
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| Nominated by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | George W. Lindberg |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 20, 1965 Belleville, Illinois |
Amy J. St. Eve (born November 20, 1965, Belleville, Illinois) is a District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She joined the court in 2002 after being nominated by President George W. Bush.
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St. Eve received her Bachelor's degree in 1987. Three years later, in 1990, she earned her Juris Doctor degree from Cornell Law School.
Following law school graduation, St. Eve was in private practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City from 1990 to 1994. She was an Associate independent counsel, Whitewater Independent Counsel's Office, Little Rock, Arkansas from 1994 to 1996, and then served as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1996 to 2001. She was a Senior counsel, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois from 2001 to 2002.
On March 21, 2002, St. Eve was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by George W. Lindberg. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 1, 2002, and received her commission the following day. Judge St. Eve is the judge assigned to the Conrad Black case; she ordered his release in July 2010 pending a possible retrial. He was later resentenced, after his appeal, by Judge St. Eve to 13 months in prison- that is in addition to the time he has served thus far and that will complete his previously modified sentence, which had been reduced from 6 1/2 years to 42 months overall, according to June 2011 CNN and Associated Press reports related to his trial.