{{Short description|American judge (born 1943)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois | term_start = October 1, 2009 | term_end = | office1 = Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois | term_start1 = 1991 | term_end1 = 1998 | predecessor1 = Harold Baker | successor1 = Joe Billy McDade | office2 = Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois | term_start2 = August 6, 1982 | term_end2 = October 1, 2009 | appointer2 = Ronald Reagan | predecessor2 = Robert Dale Morgan | successor2 = James Shadid | pronunciation = | birth_name = Michael Martin Mihm | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1943}} | birth_place = Amboy, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | party = | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = Loras College (BA)<br>Saint Louis University (JD) <!--Embedded templates / Footnotes--> | footnotes = }} '''Michael Martin Mihm''' (born 1943) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, with chambers in Peoria, Illinois. In 2004, he received the USAID Outstanding Citizen Achievement Citation for his work with the Russian judicial system.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.usaid.gov/locations/europe_eurasia/press/pub_rec/outstanding_citzn_achvmnt_mmihm.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040915035533/http://www.usaid.gov/locations/europe_eurasia/press/pub_rec/outstanding_citzn_achvmnt_mmihm.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = September 15, 2004 | title = Outstanding Citizen Achievement Citation: USAID Honors Judge Michael M. Mihm | publisher = United States Agency for International Development, Europe and Eurasia | date = 2005-02-18 | accessdate = 2009-03-06 }}</ref>
==Education and career==
Mihm was born in 1943, in Amboy, Illinois, he grew up on a farm, and his mother was a school teacher.<ref name="jm-gjd">{{cite journal | url = http://www.judicialmonitor.org/archive_0306/globaljudicialdialogue.html | title = Common and Eternal Values in the Development of Courts Around the World | last = Mihm | first = Michael M. | work = International Judicial Monitor | volume = 1 | issue = 1 |date=March 2006 | publisher = American Society of International Law and the International Judicial Academy }}</ref> He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loras College in 1964 and received a Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1967.<ref name="fjcbio">{{FJC Bio|nid=1385101|inline=yes}}</ref>
Mihm was an assistant prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri from 1967 to 1968; assistant state's attorney for Peoria County, Illinois from 1968 to 1969; and assistant corporation counsel for the City of Peoria from 1969 to 1972. He was State's Attorney of Peoria County from 1972 to 1980, then in private law practice in Peoria from 1980 until becoming a federal judge in 1982.<ref name="fjcbio" />
===Federal judicial service===
Mihm was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on July 27, 1982, to the seat vacated by Judge Robert Dale Morgan of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 5, 1982, and received his commission on August 6, 1982. Mihm served as the district's chief judge from 1991 to 1998. He assumed senior status on October 1, 2009.<ref name="fjcbio" />
==Notable case==
Mihm presided over the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who pleaded guilty in 2009 to conspiring to provide material aid to Al Qaeda.<ref name=nytimes043009>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/us/01marri.html?ref=global-home "Former ‘Enemy Combatant’ Pleads Guilty in Ill."], ''The New York Times,'' 30 April 2009</ref> Federal authorities arrested al-Marri in 2001 for credit card fraud, then deemed him an enemy combatant, and detained him without charge for over six years. The federal government claimed that al-Marri was an al Qaeda sleeper agent. The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered al-Marri brought before a civilian court in 2007,<ref>{{cite news |first=Andy |last=Kravetz |title=U.S. Supreme Court to hear al-Marri's case |url=http://www.pjstar.com/homepage/x596332629/U-S-Supreme-Court-to-hear-al-Marris-case |work=Peoria Journal Star |date=2008-12-05 }}</ref> and in 2009, the United States dropped its appeal of that decision, and transferred al-Marri to Mihm's court.<ref name="nytimes043009"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{FJC Bio|nid=1385101}}
{{s-start}} {{s-legal}} {{s-bef|before=Robert Dale Morgan}} {{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois}}|years=1982–2009}} {{s-aft|after=James Shadid}} {{s-bef|before=Harold Baker}} {{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois}}|years=1991–1998}} {{s-aft|after=Joe Billy McDade}} {{s-end}}
{{United States 7th Circuit senior district judges}} {{Portal bar|Biography|Illinois|Law|United States}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mihm, Michael Martin}} Category:1943 births Category:Living people Category:Loras College alumni Category:People from Amboy, Illinois Category:Lawyers from Peoria, Illinois Category:Saint Louis University School of Law alumni Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois Category:United States district court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan Category:21st-century American judges