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Robert William Gettleman

Robert William Gettleman

Illinois Northern District Court

Born 1943 in Atlantic City, NJ

FJC ID: 839

Career output and lasting influence

Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 3/year

Illinois Northern District Court · 1994–20091994200020102020202430
citing decisions

Illinois Northern District Court · 1994–2009

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.

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Robert William Gettleman (born 1943) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Private practice, Chicago, Illinois
    1970–1994
  2. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  3. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  4. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Appointments

  1. Illinois Northern District Court
    1994–2009 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)

Education

  1. Northwestern University School of Law
  2. Boston University
    B.S.B.A. · 1965