Michael Joseph Reagan (born March 27, 1954) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
Michael Joseph Reagan
Illinois Southern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
Born 1954 in Albuquerque, NM
FJC ID: 2886
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 4/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 39/year
Illinois Southern District Court · 2000–2019
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
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2016–2019
- Private practice1979–2000
- St. Clair County, IllinoisAssistant public defender · 1996–2000
- St. Louis UniversityAdjunct assistant professor of law · 1982–1988
- Belleville Area CollegeInstructor in business law · 1980–1983
- Office of the Appellate Defender, Fifth District, IllinoisLaw clerk · 1978
Appointments
2000–2019 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)Term ended: Retirement
Education
- St. Louis University School of LawJ.D. · 1980
- Bradley UniversityB.S. · 1976