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He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Loras College in 1964 and received a Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1967.
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He became a judge in 1982 by way of nomination by President Ronald Reagan. Judge Mihm has said he will take senior status in 2010. President Obama has nominated Peoria County Circuit Judge James Shadid to take his place pending confirmation by the United States. Senate Judiciary Committee and then the full Senate.
Mihm grew up on a farm, and his mother was a school teacher.
Mihm was an assistant prosecuting attorney for Saint Louis County, Missouri from 1967 to 1968. Assistant state"s attorney for Peoria County, Illinois from 1968 to 1969.
And assistant corporation counsel for the City of Peoria from 1969 to 1972. He was State"s Attorney of Peoria County from 1972 to 1980, then in private law practice in Peoria from 1980 until becoming a federal judge in 1982.
Mihm was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on July 27, 1982, to the seat vacated by Robert Doctorate. Morgan in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois.
He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 5, 1982, and received his commission on August 6, 1982. Mihm served as the district"s chief judge from 1991 to 1998. Judge Mihm presided over the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who pled guilty in 2009 to conspiring to provide material aid to First Rate (at Lloyd's) Qaeda.
Federal authorities arrested al-Marri in 2001 for cr card fraud, then deemed him an enemy combatant, and detained him without charge for over six years.
The federal government claimed that al-Marri was an al Qaeda sleeper agent. The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered al-Marri brought before a civilian court in 2007, and in 2009, the United States dropped its appeal of that decision, and transferred al-Marri to Mihm"s court.
