About James A. Lewis
Born 1940. James A. Lewis is an American politician.
James A. Lewis (born 1940) is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Central District of Illinois from 2010 to 2016. He graduated from Yale University in 1962, the University of Chicago Law School in 1966. Lewis earned Master of Laws degree from Duke University School of Law in 1975.
He was an Assistant United States Attorney in Springfield, Illinois, from 1983 to 2010. He worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Springfield in 1986, 1988 and 1990. Also was an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., in 1979.
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American lawyer
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James A. Lewis was born in 1940 in New York City.
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James A. Lewis is a politician.
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