Charles Ronald Norgle Sr. (born March 6, 1937) is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 44/year
Illinois Northern District Court · 1984–
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Circuit Court of Illinois, DuPage CountyJudge · 1973–1984
- ↳associate judge · 1973–1977, 1978–1981
- ↳circuit judge · 1977–1978, 1981–1984
- DuPage County, IllinoisDeputy public defender · 1971–1973
- DuPage County, IllinoisAssistant state's attorney · 1969–1971
U.S. Army1955–1957
Appointments
1984–2022 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
- Northwestern UniversityB.B.A. · 1964