{{Short description|American judge (born 1948)}} {{about||the American football player|Michael McCloskey|the Canadian politician|Michael McCluskey}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Michael Patrick McCuskey | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois | term_start = June 30, 2013 | term_end = May 31, 2014 | office1 = Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois | term_start1 = December 14, 2004 | term_end1 = March 12, 2012 | predecessor1 = Joe Billy McDade | successor1 = James Shadid | office2 = Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois | term_start2 = April 3, 1998 | term_end2 = June 30, 2013 | nominator2 = | appointer2 = Bill Clinton | predecessor2 = Harold Baker | successor2 = Colin S. Bruce | pronunciation = | birth_name = Michael Patrick McCuskey | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|06|30}} | birth_place = Peoria, Illinois | death_date = | death_place = | party = Democratic<ref name="PJ Star 2020">{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Gary|title=Judge Michael McCuskey reflects on 32-year judicial career|newspaper=Journal Star|date=August 20, 2020|access-date=February 15, 2022|url=https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/courts/2020/08/16/judge-michael-mccuskey-reflects-on-32-year-judicial-career/114355960/|archive-date=December 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205184745/https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/courts/2020/08/16/judge-michael-mccuskey-reflects-on-32-year-judicial-career/114355960/}}</ref> | education = {{nowrap|Illinois State University (BS)<br />Saint Louis University (JD)}} }}
'''Michael Patrick McCuskey''' (born June 30, 1948) is the Illinois Legislative Inspector General since his appointment on February 17, 2022. He has served as a state circuit and appellate judge, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois.
== Education and legal career ==
In 1966, McCuskey graduated in a class of 16 students at Sparland High School,<ref group="Note">Sparland High School was consolidated into the current Midland High School.</ref> Sparland, Illinois. He was recruited to Illinois State University in 1966 by baseball coach Duffy Bass, who told McCuskey about the new Political Science department starting at ISU that autumn.<ref name="isu-psnv">{{cite news | url = http://pol.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/newsletter_march06.pdf | title = Illinois State University was a home run for Judge Michael McCuskey '70 | first = Elaine | last = Graybill | work = Political Science News & Views | type = newsletter | publisher = Department of Politics and Government, Illinois State University | location = Normal, Illinois | date = Spring 2006 | accessdate = 2012-03-16 | archiveurl = http://pol.illinoisstate.edu/about/Pol-Gov%20Newsletter%20Spring%202006.pdf | archivedate = 2014-07-11 }}</ref> While at ISU, he was a member of the 1969 baseball team that played in the NCAA College Division championships;<ref name="isu-trustees" /> a sore arm ended his pitching career. McCuskey received a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois State University in 1970<ref name="isu-trustees" /> as part the first class to graduate from ISU's Political Science department.<ref name="isu-psnv"/> Following graduation, he was a baseball coach and history teacher at Ottawa Township High School, Ottawa, Illinois for two years,<ref name="isu-psnv"/><ref name="isu-trustees"/> then entered the Saint Louis University School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor in 1975.<ref name="fjc-bio">{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/mccuskey-michael-patrick|title=McCuskey, Michael Patrick – Federal Judicial Center|website=www.fjc.gov}}</ref> He was in private practice as a partner in the law firm of Pace, McCuskey and Galley in Lacon, Illinois from 1975 to 1988, and was also the chief public defender of Marshall County, Illinois, from 1976 to 1988.<ref name="isu-trustees"/><ref name="fjc-bio"/>
== Judicial career ==
===State judicial service=== McCuskey was elected an Illinois state circuit court judge on the Tenth Judicial Circuit from 1988 to 1990, where he sat in felony court at Peoria.<ref name="isu-trustees"/><ref name="fjc-bio"/> When two new seats were created on the Illinois Appellate Court, he chose to run for one of the newly created seats. In the 1990 general election, McCuskey defeated Republican candidate William Holdridge.<ref>{{cite news|title=Judges: [FINAL Edition 1]|newspaper=The Pantagraph|date=November 8, 1990|page=A5|id={{ProQuest| <!-- Insert ProQuest data here -->}}}}</ref> Robert A. Barnes Jr. was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to succeed him in the Tenth Circuit effective January 3, 1991.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Names: The Judiciary|journal=Illinois Issues|access-date=February 15, 2022|url=https://www.lib.niu.edu/1991/ii910426a.html}}</ref>
McCuskey served as a judge on the Illinois Appellate Court from 1990 to 1998.<ref name="isu-trustees"/><ref name="fjc-bio"/><ref name="pjs-comeshome">{{cite news | title = McCuskey comes home as Marshall County judge | first = Gary L. | last = Smith | date = January 5, 2015 | pages = A1, A9 | work = Journal Star | publisher = GateHouse Media | location = Peoria, Illinois }}</ref> In 1993, he was selected its presiding judge.<ref>{{cite news|title=ISU grad named presiding justice|newspaper=Pantagraph|date=June 27, 1993|page=B9|id={{ProQuest| <!-- Insert ProQuest data here -->}}}}</ref> In 1991, he received the Illinois Public Defender Association's Award of Excellence and Meritorious Service.<ref name="Blue Book 97-98">{{cite book|editor-last=Ryan|editor-first=George|title=Illinois Blue Book 1997–1998|chapter=Judicial Branch|page=182|publisher=Illinois Secretary of State|location=Springfield, Illinois|url=http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/bb/id/41789}}</ref> While an appellate court judge, McCuskey was appointed to the Administrative Committee, replacing Tobias Barry, who had served as committee chairman.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Steve|last=Henriksen|title=Names: Judiciary|journal=Illinois Issues|volume=17|number=7|page=35|publisher=Sangamon State University|access-date=February 15, 2022|url=https://www.lib.niu.edu/1991/ii910733.html}}</ref>
After his confirmation to the federal bench by the U.S. Senate, the Illinois Supreme Court appointed former state legislator Judy Koehler to the vacancy.<ref>"[http://www.lib.niu.edu/1998/ii980738.html Former lawmaker now on the bench]", ''Illinois Issues'', July/August 1998. Retrieved October 31, 2016.</ref>
===Federal judicial service=== McCuskey was nominated for the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois by President Bill Clinton on July 31, 1997, to a seat vacated by Harold Baker. McCuskey and G. Patrick Murphy's respective nominations were held by Senator Phil Gramm in retaliation for Carol Moseley Braun blocking Gramm's preferred nominee to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission until the intervention of George Ryan.<ref>{{cite journal|editor-last=Davis|editor-first=Jennifer|title=People: Appointments|journal=Illinois Issues|volume=24|number=5|publisher=University of Illinois at Springfield|issn=0738-9663|access-date=February 19, 2022|url=https://www.lib.niu.edu/1998/ii980542.html}}</ref> McCuskey was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 2, 1998, and received his commission on April 3, 1998.<ref name="fjc-bio"/> He served as chief judge of the district from December 14, 2004<ref name="isu-trustees"/><ref group="Note" name="chiefdate">Illinois State University's Trustee biography says that McCuskey's chief judge term started on December 14, 2004; Greyheart says only December 2004; the Federal Judicial Center biography says only 2004; Kravetz in the ''Peoria Journal Star'' says "since 2005".</ref> to March 12, 2012, when he swore in successor James E. Shadid.<ref name="pjs-shadid">{{cite news | url = http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1569573780/James-Shadid-takes-oath-as-chief-judge | title = Shadid takes oath as chief judge | first = Andy | last = Kravetz | work = Peoria Journal Star | date = March 13, 2012 | page = B1 | publisher = GateHouse Media | location = Peoria, Illinois | accessdate = 2012-03-15 }}</ref> McCuskey took senior status on June 30, 2013, and retired from the bench on May 31, 2014.<ref name="fjc-bio"/>
===Return to state judicial service===
McCuskey was appointed to the Illinois Tenth Judicial Circuit, his original seat, taking office on June 3, 2014, to complete the term of the retiring Kevin Galley. McCuskey took up his seat in Marshall County, and stated his intention to run for election in November 2016. In 2016, McCuskey was elected to the vacancy unopposed. He stepped down as a judge in 2020<ref name="PJ Star 2020"/> The Illinois Supreme Court appointed Paul Bauer as McCuskey's successor as the resident circuit judge of Marshall County.<ref>{{cite letter|last=Taft Grosboll|first=Carolyn|recipient=People of Illinois|subject=Paul Bauer Announcement|date=September 14, 2020|publisher=Illinois Supreme Court|location=Springfield, Illinois|access-date=February 20, 2022|url=https://www.10thcircuitcourtil.org/DocumentCenter/View/1158/Paul-Bauer-announcement-102620|format=PDF}}</ref>
==ISU Board of Trustees== Governor Rod Blagojevich appointed McCuskey a member of the Illinois State University Board of Trustees for a term commencing September 29, 2005 and ending January 17, 2011. McCuskey was confirmed by the Illinois Senate in a unanimous vote on November 3, 2005.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Nominations to Various Board|journal=Journal of the Illinois Senate|volume=94|number=60|publisher=Illinois Senate|location=Springfield, Illinois|page=21|date=November 3, 2005|access-date=February 15, 2022|url=https://www.ilga.gov/senate/journals/94/2005/SJ094060R.pdf}}</ref> In 2011, Governor Pat Quinn reappointed McCuskey to the ISU Board of Trustees for a term from 2011 to 2017.<ref name="isu-trustees">{{cite web | url = http://illinoisstate.edu/trustees/mccuskey.shtml | title = Michael McCuskey – Board Chair | publisher = Illinois State University | location = Normal, Illinois | accessdate = 2012-03-16 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120505193229/http://illinoisstate.edu/trustees/mccuskey.shtml | archive-date = 2012-05-05 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| title=State of Illinois - 97th General assembly regular session senate transcript | url=https://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans97/09700051.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409155604/http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans97/09700051.pdf | archive-date=2012-04-09}}</ref> Upon reassuming a circuit court judgeship in 2014, he stepped down from the ISU Board of Trustees and was replaced by Robert Dobski.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Appointment Message No. 99-0187|page=23|journal=Journal of the Illinois Senate|access-date=February 15, 2022|url=https://www.ilga.gov/senate/journals/99/2015/sj099030r.pdf}}</ref>
==Illinois Legislative Inspector General== On July 14, 2021, Carol M. Pope announced her intent to resign as the Legislative Inspector General effective January 31, 2022.<ref name="SJR 48"/> The Illinois Senate voted in favor of McCuskey's nomination on February 16, 2022, and the Illinois House voted in favor of his nomination the next day.<ref name="SJR 48">{{cite web|last=Harmon|first=Don|title=SJR 48: Inspector Gen-Michael McCuskey|date=February 17, 2022|publisher=Illinois General Assembly|access-date=February 18, 2022|url=https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=48&GAID=16&DocTypeID=SJR&LegID=140418&SessionID=110&GA=102&SpecSess=0}}</ref> McCuskey was appointed to complete the remainder of Pope's term. On May 9, 2023, the Illinois General Assembly voted to appoint McCuskey to a five-year term as the Legislative Inspector General to start June 30, 2023 and end June 30, 2028.<ref>{{cite web |last=West|first=Maurice|title=House Joint Resolution 35 – Legislative Inspector General|date=May 9, 2023|publisher=Illinois General Assembly|access-date=May 11, 2023|url=https://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=35&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HJR&LegId=149968&SessionID=112&GA=103}}</ref>
==Personal== McCuskey's wife, Barbara Huber McCuskey, graduated from Illinois State University in 1987; as of 2006, they had one son and lived in Urbana,<ref name="isu-psnv"/> and {{as of|2015|lc=on}} lived in Lacon.<ref name="pjs-comeshome"/>
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==Sources== * {{FJC Bio|nid=1390661}}
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