Louis FitzHenry (June 13, 1870 – November 18, 1935) was a United States representative from Illinois, a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
Louis FitzHenry
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1870 in Bloomington, IL
Died 1935 in Normal, IL
FJC ID: 763
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 7/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 6/year
Illinois Southern District Court · 1918–1933Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 1933–1935
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
- Private practice, Bloomington, Illinois1897–1907, 1915–1918
- U.S. representative from Illinois1913–1915
- Bloomington, IllinoisCity attorney · 1907–1911
Appointments
1933–1935 · Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)Term ended: Death
1918–1933 · Appointed by Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- Illinois Wesleyan University Law SchoolLL.B. · 1897