Federal Court — IL
Southern District of Illinois
Aggregate docket intelligence for the Southern District of Illinois compiled from verified federal court records. Judge caseload counts, criminal docket fractions, and sentencing departure rates — never a prediction about a specific defendant.
Source: CourtListener × FJC IDB × USSC FY14-23 — generated May 5, 2026
District Aggregate
Total Dockets
69,576
indexed in corpus
Judges Indexed
20
with docket data
Avg Criminal Fraction
13.4%
across district judges
Booker Inflection
—
mean downward departure
Criminal fraction = criminal dockets ÷ total dockets per judge, averaged across the district. Booker inflection = mean downward-departure rate for judges in this district per USSC FY14-23. Aggregate frequencies only — not a prediction about any specific case.
Top Judges by Docket Volume
Judges ranked by total indexed docket count. Criminal fraction reflects the share of their docket classified as criminal (vs. civil).
| Judge | Total Dockets | Criminal Dockets | Criminal Fraction |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Herndon | 19,989 | 480 | 2.4% |
| Nancy Rosenstengel | 11,984 | 224 | 1.9% |
| John Gilbert | 8,532 | 1,572 | 18.4% |
| Michael Reagan | 5,229 | 422 | 8.1% |
| G. Murphy | 4,329 | 503 | 11.6% |
| William Stiehl | 4,322 | 1,292 | 29.9% |
| Staci Yandle | 2,805 | 165 | 5.9% |
| William Beatty | 2,298 | 817 | 35.5% |
| James Foreman | 1,791 | 276 | 15.4% |
| Paul Riley | 1,583 | 481 | 30.4% |
Source: CourtListener × FJC IDB via mv_judge_docket_caseload. Counts reflect dockets indexed as of corpus build date.
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This is legal information, not legal advice. Aggregate data from verified public court records. Nothing here predicts a specific outcome.