John Phil Gilbert (born March 11, 1949) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Gilbert took senior status on March 15, 2014.
John Phil Gilbert
Illinois Southern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
Born 1949 in Carbondale, IL
FJC ID: 854
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 5/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 9/year
Illinois Southern District Court · 1992–2014
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
- Illinois Circuit Court, First Judicial CircuitJudge · 1988–1992
- Private practice, Carbondale, Illinois1974–1988
- Illinois State Board of ElectionsMember · 1978–1988
- ↳chairman · 1981–1983
- ↳vice-chairman · 1983–1985
- Carbondale, IllinoisAssistant city attorney · 1975–1978
Public Aid Enforcement Division, State of IllinoisSpecial assistant attorney general · 1974–1975
Appointments
1992–2014 · Appointed by George H.W. Bush (Republican)
Education
- Loyola University Chicago School of LawJ.D. · 1974
- University of IllinoisB.S. · 1971