Education
Born in Bellville, Texas, McDade received a Bachelor of Surgery in Economics, with Honors, in 1959, and a Master of Surgery in Psychology in 1960, both from Bradley University.
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Joe McDade
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He is the first judge of the newly created seat, and was nominated by George H. West. Bush. They have four children. McDade has senior status, a form of semi retirement.
Sara Lynn Darrow, a federal prosecutor based in Rock Island, Illinois (one of the four Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities) has replaced him following her nomination by President Barack Obama and confirmation by the United States Senate.
He earned a Juris Doctor from University of Michigan Law School in 1963. McDade was a staff attorney in the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division in Chicago from 1963 to 1965.
He was an executive trainee at the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Peoria, Illinois in 1965. He was executive director of the Greater Peoria Legal Aid Society from 1965 to 1968.
He was an Associate Circuit Judge, Tenth Judicial Circuit, State of Illinois, from 1982 to 1988, then a Circuit Judge, Tenth Judicial Circuit, State of Illinois, from 1988 to 1991.
McDade is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. McDade was nominated by President George H. West. Bush on September 11, 1991, to a new "temporary" seat created by the Federal Judgeship Acting of 1990, part of the Judicial Improvements Acting of 1990 (PubL 101–650, 104 Stat 5089, enacted December 1, 1990). He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 21, 1991, and received his commission on November 25, 1991.
He served as chief judge of the court from 1998 to 2004.
Membership
While at Bradley, McDade was part of the All-National Institute of Technology Basketball Team in 1957 and 1959 as a member of the Bradley University National Institute of Technology Championship team He has been a member of the Illinois State Bar Association General Assembly.
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