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About James Zagel
James Block Zagel was an American judge and attorney. After a stint as a prosecutor, he became a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 1987, assuming senior status in 2016. He presided over numerous high-profile trials, including those of several members of the Chicago Outfit and the corruption trial of former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich. Zagel also sat on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2008 to 2015.
Everything about James Zagel →- Occupation
- lawyer, judge
- Position held
- Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 4, 1941
- Died
- July 15, 2023