Gary Feinerman

Gary Scott Feinerman (born February 19, 1965) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Early life and education

Feinerman earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1987 from Yale University. He graduated from Stanford Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1991, where he finished second in his class and was a member of the Stanford Law Review and Order of the Coif.

Career

From 1994 until 1996, Feinerman worked for the United States Department of Justice as counsel to the Office of Policy Development and also on detail to the Office of the Counsel of the President in 1995. From 1996 until 1999, Feinerman again worked as an associate for the Chicago law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. He served as a partner at the firm from 2000 to 2003. While at Mayer Brown, Feinerman performed pro bono work for the NAACP. The Court ultimately voted 6–3 for Illinois, holding that police departments may set up roadblocks to question motorists with no individual or collective suspicion of criminal activity, but rather to collect information about a recent hit-and-run accident. In 2007, Feinerman joined the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin as a partner, where he worked until becoming a United States district judge. On April 15, 2010, the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary reported Feinerman's nomination out of committee. The United States Senate confirmed Feinerman on June 28, 2010 by an 80–0 vote, and he received his commission the next day. He resigned on December 31, 2022.

Post-judicial career

Since his resignation, Feinerman returned to private practice as a partner in Latham & Watkins at their Chicago office.