Who appointed Suzanne B. Conlon?

President Ronald Reagan appointed Suzanne B. Conlon to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 1988.

Was Suzanne B. Conlon appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Suzanne B. Conlon was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Suzanne B. Conlon's confirmation vote?

Suzanne B. Conlon was confirmed by voice vote on February 19, 1988. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Northern District of Illinois / Appointed 1988 / Senior status since 2004

Suzanne B. Conlon

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

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and confirmed by voice vote, Suzanne B. Conlon is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She earned a law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1968. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Appointed by: Ronald Reagan, 1988
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Mundelein College 1963 · Loyola Chicago Law 1968
Succeeded: Thomas Roberts McMillen
Succeeded by: Virginia Mary Kendall

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Northern District of Illinois succeeded Thomas Roberts McMillen	Reagan (R)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Mundelein College	B.A.	1963
Loyola University Chicago School of Law	J.D.	1968
University of London	Diploma in Foreign and Comparative Law	1971

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Conlon was assigned 5,670 district-court cases (1982–2013). Median time from filing to termination: 85 days across 5,669 closed cases.

Civil rights17%

Labor & ERISA16%

Real property16%

Prisoner & habeas12%

Contract11%

Other federal statutes9%

Other19%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 57 of Conlon’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 45 were affirmed, 4 reversed or vacated, and 8 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Conlon authored 129 published opinions for the court (1988–2010). Most cited: Hawthorne Partners v. AT & T TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (274 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1993	Hawthorne Partners v. AT & T TECHNOLOGIES, INC.	831 F. Supp. 1398	274
1992	United States v. Petersen Sand and Gravel, Inc.	806 F. Supp. 1346	45
1990	Holert v. University of Chicago	751 F. Supp. 1294	41
1988	Medcom Holding Co. v. Baxter Travenol Laboratories, Inc.	689 F. Supp. 841	33
1994	Plair v. E.J. Brach & Sons, Inc.	864 F. Supp. 67	32
1988	Verlan, Ltd. v. John L. Armitage & Co.	695 F. Supp. 950	30
2010	Mason v. Medline Industries, Inc.	731 F. Supp. 2d 730	29
1999	Danis v. USN Communications, Inc.	73 F. Supp. 2d 923	27
1990	In Re VMS Securities Litigation	752 F. Supp. 1373	26
2004	Travelers Casualty & Surety Co. v. Interclaim (Bermuda) Ltd.	304 F. Supp. 2d 1018	16
1990	In Re Air Crash Disaster at Sioux City, Iowa	734 F. Supp. 1425	16
1998	Avelar-Cruz v. Reno	6 F. Supp. 2d 744	15
1991	Greenberg Ex Rel. Greenberg v. Boettcher & Co.	755 F. Supp. 776	15
1990	In Re Klein	119 B.R. 971	15
1998	Rusu v. Reno	999 F. Supp. 1204	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 129 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

Who appointed Suzanne B. Conlon?: President Ronald Reagan appointed Suzanne B. Conlon to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 1988.
Was Suzanne B. Conlon appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Suzanne B. Conlon was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Suzanne B. Conlon's confirmation vote?: Suzanne B. Conlon was confirmed by voice vote on February 19, 1988. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is Suzanne B. Conlon on?: Suzanne B. Conlon is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Sources

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38 years on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).