Michael Stephen Kanne (December 21, 1938 – June 16, 2022) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
Michael Stephen Kanne
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1938 in Rensselaer, IN
Died 2022
FJC ID: 1225
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 64/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 1,758/year
Indiana Northern District Court · 1982–1987Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals · 1987–2022
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
- St. Frances CollegeLecturer · 1990–1991
- St. Joseph's CollegeLecturer · 1976–1989
- Indiana Circuit Court, Thirtieth Judicial CircuitJudge · 1972–1982
- Private practice, Rensselaer, Indiana1968–1972
- Rensselaer, IndianaCity attorney · 1972
U.S. Air Force lieutenant1962–1965
Appointments
1987–2022 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)Term ended: Death
1982–1987 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- Indiana University School of Law -- Bloomington (now Maurer School of Law)J.D. · 1968
- Indiana UniversityB.S. · 1962