Description:

Position Overview, Position Duties and Responsibilities
A Government Entity is accepting applications for a full-time United States Magistrate Judge position in the Eastern Division, with the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse at Chicago, Illinois as the duty station. The deadline for the submission of completed applications is 5:00 p.m. on March 6, 2024. Applicants that applied to the recent U.S. Magistrate Judge position that closed on February 2, 2024, will be automatically considered for this vacancy. The applications submitted during the previous vacancy announcement period will be reviewed by the Merit Selection Panel to also fill this U.S. Magistrate Judge opening. The successful candidate for this Magistrate Judge position will only be appointed upon the confirmation of a current U.S. Magistrate Judge as a U.S. District Judge and the approval of the Seventh Circuit Judicial Council and the Judicial Conference Committee on the Administration of the Magistrate Judges System.

Job Requirements and Qualifications:
The duties of the position of a United States Magistrate Judge are demanding and wide-ranging. The responsibilities of a United States Magistrate Judge are set forth in 28 U.S.C. 636, and include conducting most preliminary proceedings in federal criminal cases; the trial and disposition of federal misdemeanor cases, as well as civil cases upon consent of the litigants; and conducting various civil pretrial matters, including settlement conferences, discovery supervision, and other proceedings on referral from the district judges of the Court.

Eligibility: To be qualified for appointment as a United States Magistrate Judge, an applicant must

be, and have been for at least five years, a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States, and have been engaged in the active practice of law for a period of at least five years;1
be competent to perform all of the duties of the office; be of good moral character, emotionally stable and mature; be committed to equal justice under the law; be in good health; be patient and courteous; and be capable of deliberation and decisiveness;
be less than seventy years of age; and
not be related to a judge of the district court.