Who appointed Wayne R. Andersen?

President George H.W. Bush appointed Wayne R. Andersen to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 1991.

Was Wayne R. Andersen appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Wayne R. Andersen was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Wayne R. Andersen's confirmation vote?

Wayne R. Andersen was confirmed by voice vote on November 15, 1991. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Northern District of Illinois / Appointed 1991 / Served to 2010

Wayne R. Andersen

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

Appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 and confirmed by voice vote, Wayne R. Andersen was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He earned a law degree from University of Illinois College of Law in 1970. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Appointed by: George H.W. Bush, 1991
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Harvard 1967 · University of Illinois College of Law 1970
Succeeded: Stanley Julian Roszkowski
Succeeded by: Thomas Michael Durkin

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Northern District of Illinois succeeded Stanley Julian Roszkowski	G.H.W. Bush (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

Harvard University	B.A.	1967
University of Illinois College of Law	J.D.	1970

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Andersen was assigned 5,433 district-court cases (1983–2010). Median time from filing to termination: 174 days across 5,431 closed cases.

Civil rights18%

Labor & ERISA18%

Real property14%

Contract12%

Prisoner & habeas10%

Other federal statutes10%

Other18%

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 78 of Andersen’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 58 were affirmed, 15 reversed or vacated, and 5 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, Andersen authored 55 published opinions for the court (1993–2010). Most cited: Securities & Exchange Commission v. Randy (24 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
1999	Securities & Exchange Commission v. Randy	38 F. Supp. 2d 657	24
1998	S Industries, Inc. v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.	991 F. Supp. 1012	19
1996	Brown & Kerr Inc. v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co.	940 F. Supp. 1245	18
1996	Proviso Ass'n of Retarded Citizens v. Village of Westchester	914 F. Supp. 1555	15
1997	Coe-Truman Technologies, Inc. v. United States Government	214 B.R. 183	14
2002	Global Relief Foundation, Inc. v. O'NEILL	207 F. Supp. 2d 779	13
1999	United States v. One 1997 E35 Ford Van, VIN 1FBJS31L3VHB70844	50 F. Supp. 2d 789	13
1995	Illinois, Department of Revenue v. Raleigh (In Re Stoecker)	179 B.R. 532	13
1994	Robinson v. Chicago Housing Authority (In Re Robinson)	169 B.R. 171	13
2007	Securities & Exchange Commission v. Koenig	532 F. Supp. 2d 987	12
1997	IDS Life Insurance v. SunAmerica, Inc.	958 F. Supp. 1258	12
1994	Fasco Industries, Inc. v. MacK	843 F. Supp. 1252	12
2008	River Village West LLC v. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co.	618 F. Supp. 2d 847	11
1993	United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. General Motors Corp.	826 F. Supp. 1122	11
2010	Vance v. Rumsfeld	694 F. Supp. 2d 957	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 55 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 Wayne R. Andersen?: President George H.W. Bush appointed Wayne R. Andersen to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 1991.
Was Wayne R. Andersen appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Wayne R. Andersen was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Wayne R. Andersen's confirmation vote?: Wayne R. Andersen was confirmed by voice vote on November 15, 1991. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Wayne R. Andersen on?: Wayne R. Andersen was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Sources

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18 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).