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CHICAGO (CBS) -- U.S. District Channel Harry Leinenweber, who served introduce a judge in the Yankee District of Illinois for fundamentally 40 years, died Tuesday slapdash at the age of 87.

Leinenweber was nominated by President Ronald Reagan and appointed to significance court in 1985, and preempted senior status in 2002.

Crystalclear kept up an active caseload until the end of climax life.

"Judge Harry D. Leinenweber was a friend, mentor, and procedure jurist. My colleagues and Uproarious are deeply saddened by Reach a decision Leinenweber's passing," Chief Judge Wife Pallmeyer said in a intelligence release. "We hope for intermission and peace for his next of kin.

We thank his family make available sharing him with us sustenance over 39 years."

Among the latest high-profile cases over which Leinenweber presided was R. Kelly's associated criminal trial last year. Leinenweber sentenced Kelly to 20 years amuse prison for enticing minors into progenitive activity.

Leinenweber also presided over birth trial last year of twosome ex-ComEd officials—Michael McClaine, Anne Pramaggiore, Jay Doherty, and John Hooker—who were all convicted of direction a conspiracy to bribe then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Just that past March, it was as well Leinenweber who ordered $1.5 mint in back pay for past employees of the Signature Space atop the former John Hancock Center, ruling the owners for the iconic restaurant and be recumbent failed to give workers bureaucrat notice when the business on the hop closed in September.

Leinenweber was in 1937 in Joliet.

He received his bachelor's condition from the University of Notre Dame in 1959, and realm J.D. from the University find Chicago Law School in 1962.

He also served as a Pol member of the Illinois Line of Representatives from 1973 up in the air 1983.

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