Joseph S. Van Bokkelen

Personal

Birthday: 
1943
Birthplace: 
Chicago, IL
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Deputy attorney general, State of Indiana, 1969-1970
Assistant attorney general, State of Indiana, 1971-1972
Assistant U.S. attorney, Northern District of Indiana, 1972-1975
Private practice, Indiana, 1975-2001
U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, 2001-2007

Education

Name of School: 
Indiana University
Degree: 
B.A.
Degree Year: 
1966
Name of School - Second: 

Indiana University Maurer School of Law - Bloomington

For more than 150 years, the Indiana University School of Law has provided top-flight, transformative legal education. With just over 750 students, drawn from more than 100 undergraduate schools and from three continents, Indiana Law retains a distinctive sense of collegiality and community in the stimulating, cosmopolitan college town of Bloomington, Ind.

Degree - Second: 
J.D.
Degree Year - Second: 
1969

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana
Court Name: 

Indiana Northern District Court

President Nominating: 
George W. Bush
Party Affiliation of President: 
Republican
Commission Date: 
7/18/2007