Confirmed

Professionally Diverse

Jeffrey Cummings

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

NominatedJanuary 18, 2023

ConfirmedSeptember 12, 2023

  • Judge Jeffrey Cummings was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on September 12, 2023.

  • Previously, he served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, a role he has had since 2019. Previously, Cummings was co-managing partner at Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C., a civil rights firm with an environmental defense practice, where he worked from 1989 to 2019.

  • Cummings served as a law clerk for Judge Ann Williams in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 1987 to 1989.

  • He received his J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, cum laude, in 1987, and his B.A. from Michigan State University in 1984.