President Biden Nominates Judge Sunil R. Harjani to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- The Indian American is currently serving as the U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and is also an adjunct professor at Northwestern Law School.
President Joe Biden has nominated Judge Sunil R. Harjani to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the White House announced today. Harjani has been serving as the United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2019.
Before assuming the bench, he was an Assistant United States Attorney and deputy chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Section for the United States Attorneyās Office in Chicago. In that role, he āinvestigated and prosecuted complex white-collar crimes,ā according to his profile on the Northern District of Illinois website. āDuring his time as a federal prosecutor, he tried numerous securities and commodities matters, and other complex fraud cases to verdict in this district, as well as argued multiple appeals on behalf of the United States before the Seventh Circuit.ā
Currently an adjunct professor at Northwestern Law School, where he teaches White Collar Criminal Practice and Federal Civil Discovery Courses, he is also a trained and certified mediator. He is a member of the Seventh Circuit Judicial Council and the Magistrate Judge Advisory Group for the U.S. Courts. He also practiced federal civil litigation as a senior counsel at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and as an associate at Jenner & Block LLP in Chicago.Ā
He is a fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago, a board member of the Federal Bar Association Chicago, a Law Board member at Northwestern Law School, an Associate Editor of the ABA Litigation Journal, Chair of the Diversity Committee for the Federal Magistrate Judges Association, and an Advisory Board Member for the South Asian Bar Association of Chicago.
He served as a law clerk for Judge Suzanne B. Conlon on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 2000 and his B.A. from Northwestern University in 1997.