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April Perry Biography – April Perry Wiki
April Perry is a Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She was nominated by Democratic President Joe Biden on April 24, 2024, to a seat vacated by Nancy Lee Maldonado. She was confirmed by the Senate on November 12, 2024, and received commission on November 20, 2024.
The president had previously nominated Perry to serve as Chicago’s first female U.S. Attorney in 2023, but Ohio senator J.D. Vance’s “procedural hold” on all appointments for U.S. attorneys stalled that nomination.
Prior to her nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Judge Perry was the Senior Counsel, Global Investigations and Fraud and Abuse Prevention, at GE HealthCare from 2022 to 2024.
Prior to GE HealthCare, Judge Perry was the General Counsel for Ubiety Technologies from 2019 to 2022. From 2017 to 2019, Ms. Perry served as the Chief Deputy State’s Attorney and Chief Ethics Officer for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Judge Perry previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois from 2004 to 2016. She held numerous leadership positions in that office, including as Supervisory Litigation Counsel from 2011 to 2016, Project Safe Childhood Coordinator from 2010 to 2016, Civil Rights and Hate Crimes Coordinator from 2014 to 2016, and as a Deputy Chief in Narcotics and Gangs from 2010 to 2011.
Judge Perry served as a law clerk for Judge Joel M. Flaum on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2003 to 2004. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law (now Pritzker School of Law) in 2003 and her B.S., magna cum laude, from Northwestern University in 2000.
U.S. attorney
President Joe Biden nominated April Perry in July 2023 to become Chicago’s U.S. attorney. She would have replaced John Lausch, who left office in March 2023 after five years in that role. Her confirmation was blocked by Vice President JD Vance (then-U.S. Senator from Ohio), who said he did it to protest the prosecution of Donald Trump. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate instead as a federal district court judge.
April Perry Age
Judge April Michelle Perry was born in 1979 in San Diego, California, U.S.
April Perry Husband
April Perry is married. Her husband works at the Chicago Bar Foundation.
April Perry Political Party
Judge April Perry is an appointee of Democratic President Joe Biden.
April Perry Salary
U.S. District Judge April Perry receives an annual salary of $247,400.
National Guard
On Monday, October 06, 2025, federal judge April Perry declined to block the deployment of National Guard units to Illinois, a mobilization that the state’s governor, JB Pritzker, labeled an “unconstitutional invasion” by the federal government, even as President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to bypass court battles and send in the troops.
The judge’s ruling in Illinois, which allows the Trump-ordered deployment to move ahead for now, came as a military official said 200 troops from the Texas Guard were headed to Illinois. They are expected to be deployed in the Chicago area by Tuesday or Wednesday, the New York Times reported. A similar effort to send Texas troops to Portland, Ore., has been blocked for now.
