Education
Cornell University; Cornell Law School.
Cornell University; Cornell Law School.
She joined the court in 2002 after being nominated by President George West. Bush. Raised in Belleville, Illinois, Saint Eve received her Bachelor"s degree from Cornell University in 1987. Three years later, in 1990, she earned her Juris Doctor degree from Cornell Law School.
During her time at Cornell, she interned for a summer in the office of Senator.
Alan J. Dixon, who was from her native Belleville. Following law school graduation, Saint Eve was in private practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City from 1990 to 1994.
From 1996 until 2001, Saint Eve served as an assistant United States. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. She was a Senior counsel for Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois from 2001 until 2002, when she became a federal judge.
On March 21, 2002, Saint Eve was nominated by President George West. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by George West. Lindberg, who had taken senior status.
She was recommended for the post by United States. Senator. Peter Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald told the Chicago Tribune in 2003 that before Saint Eve applied for the judgeship, "I didn"t know Amy or know anyone who knew Amy. I was looking for the best qualified person."
She was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 1, 2002, and received her commission the following day.
Judge Saint Eve is the judge assigned to the Conrad Black case.
She ordered his release in July 2010 pending a possible retrial. He was later resentenced, after his appeal, by Judge Saint Eve to 13 months in prisonthat is in addition to the time he has served thus far and that will complete his previously modified sentence, which had been reduced from 6 1/2 years to 42 months overall, according to June 2011 Cable News Network and Associated Press reports related to his trial.
Conrad Black referred obliquely to Judge Saint Eve in an article written for the National Post as a "..half-demented, much-criticized Chicago judge..".