- Judge Jonathan Hawley has been a United States Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois since 2014.
- From 1999 to 2014, Hawley worked in the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Central District of Illinois, serving as the District’s Chief Federal Public Defender from 2011 to 2014.
- Judge Hawley has clerked for Justice James D. Heiple on the Illinois Supreme Court, Judge Michael P. McCuskey on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, and for Judge McCuskey on the Illinois Third District Appellate Court.
- He received his J.D., cum laude, from DePaul University College of Law in 1997 and his B.A, cum laude, from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1992.
