U.S. District Court--Western District of Michigan
Grand Rapids,
Michigan
Hon. Robert J. Jonker was appointed by President George W. Bush in July 2007 and was elevated to chief judge on July 18, 2015. Before taking the bench, he practiced commercial and environmental litigation for 20 years with Warner Norcross & Judd LLP and was listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" for business litigation. His work included cases at all levels of the Michigan and federal courts. Judge Jonker graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was Order of the Coif. Immediately following law school, he worked for two years as a law clerk for Hon. John Feikens of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
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