Philip Godfrey Reinhard
{{Short description|American judge (born 1941)}}
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| office = Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
| term_start = January 12, 2007
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| office1 = Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
| term_start1 = February 10, 1992
| term_end1 = January 12, 2007
| appointer1 = George H. W. Bush
| predecessor1 = Seat established by 104 Stat. 5089
| successor1 = Frederick J. Kapala
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| birth_place = LaSalle, Illinois, U.S.
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Philip Godfrey Reinhard (born January 12, 1941) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Education and career
Reinhard was born in LaSalle, Illinois. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1962 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1964. He was an assistant state's attorney of Winnebago County, Illinois from 1964 to 1967, and then in private practice in Rockford, Illinois from 1967 to 1968, returning to the Winnebago County government as a state's attorney from 1968 to 1976. He was a judge on the 17th Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois from 1976 to 1980, and on the Second District Court of Appeals, Illinois from 1980 to 1992.{{FJC Bio|nid=1386836|inline=yes}}
=Federal judicial service=
On August 1, 1991, Reinhard was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois created by 104 Stat. 5089. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 6, 1992, and received his commission on February 10, 1992. He assumed senior status on January 12, 2007.
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Category:21st-century American judges
Category:Illinois state court judges
Category:Judges of the Illinois Appellate Court
Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Category:People from LaSalle, Illinois
Category:United States district court judges appointed by George H. W. Bush