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Hubert Louis Will

Hubert Louis Will

Illinois Northern District Court

Born 1914 in Milwaukee, WI

Died 1995 in Oconomowoc, WI

FJC ID: 2588

Career output and lasting influence

Opinions attributed per year · peak 8/year

Illinois Northern District Court · 1961–19951961198020002020202580
opinions

Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 143/year

Illinois Northern District Court · 1961–1995196119802000202020251430
citing decisions

Illinois Northern District Court · 1961–1995

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.

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Hubert Louis Will (April 23, 1914 – December 9, 1995) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Private practice, Chicago, Illinois
    1946–1961
  2. U.S. Army captain
    1945–1946
  3. European Theater of Operations, Office of Strategic Services
    Chief of counter-espionage branch · 1943–1945
  4. U.S. Alien Property Custodian
    Tax counsel · 1943
  5. Office of Price Administration
    Assistant to the general counsel · 1942
  6. Tax Division
    Tax Division
    Special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States · 1940–1941
  7. general counsel's staff, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
    general counsel's staff, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
    Attorney · 1937–1939
  8. U.S. Sen. Robert Wagner of New York
    Special secretary · 1939
  9. U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency
    Clerk · 1939

Appointments

  1. Illinois Northern District Court
    1961–1995 · Appointed by John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
    Term ended: Death

Education

  1. University of Chicago Law School
  2. University of Chicago
    A.B. · 1935