Susan Christine O'Meara Getzendanner (born 1939) is a former
United States district judge
The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district, which each cover one U.S. state or, in some cases, a portion of a state. Each district cou ...
of the
, and in 2013 was listed as a
NAFTA adjudicator.
Education and career
Getzendanner was born in
Chicago
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Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...
. She received a
Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor's degree in business administration awarded by colleges and universities after completion of undergraduate study in the fundamentals of business administration and usually including advanced ...
from
Loyola University Chicago in 1966 and a
Juris Doctor from
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Loyola University Chicago School of Law is the law school of Loyola University Chicago, in Illinois. Established in 1909, by the Society of Jesus, the Roman Catholic order of the Jesuits, the School of Law is located in downtown Chicago. Loy ...
in 1966. She was a
law clerk for Judge
Julius Hoffman of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 1966 to 1968. Thereafter, she entered private practice in Chicago.
Federal judicial service
Getzendanner was nominated by President
Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1 ...
on June 4, 1980, to a new seat on the
created by 92 Stat. 1629. She was confirmed on September 29, 1980, and received her commission on September 30, 1980. On September 30, 1987, she resigned and re-entered private practice.
Notable case
She was the presiding judge in the second trial of
Wilk v. American Medical Association (May/June 1987).
References
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1939 births
Living people
Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
United States district court judges appointed by Jimmy Carter
20th-century American judges
Loyola University Chicago School of Law alumni
20th-century American women judges