James G. Carr

James G. Carr
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Incumbent
Assumed office June 1, 2010
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
In office May 9, 1994 – June 1, 2010
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Richard B. McQuade, Jr.
Succeeded by	Jeffrey J. Helmick
Personal details
Born	(1940-07-07) July 7, 1940 Boston, Massachusetts
Residence	Toledo, Ohio
Alma mater	Kenyon College Harvard Law School

James G. Carr (born November 7, 1940) is a federal district judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Carr was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Kenyon College in 1962, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1969. He was in private practice of law in Chicago, Illinois from 1966 to 1968. He was a Staff attorney of the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation from 1968 to 1970. He was then an adjunct professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1969, and at Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1970. He was an associate professor at the University of Toledo College of Law from 1970 to 1979.

While he was a professor, Carr was also an assistant prosecutor at the Lucas County Prosecutor's Office in Ohio from 1972 to 1973. He later became a U.S. Magistrate for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in 1979, and was nominated by President Bill Clinton on January 27, 1994, to a seat on that court vacated by Richard B. McQuade, Jr. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 6, 1994, and received his commission on May 9. Chief Justice William Rehnquist appointed Judge Carr to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on May 19, 2002. Carr was made chief judge in 2004. His term on the FISA Court expired in 2008.

Sources

• James G. Carr at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Paul Charles Weick	Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio 1994–2010	Succeeded by Nicholas Joseph Walinski, Jr.