Hon. Beth W. Jantz

Magistrate Judge Beth W. Jantz was appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 2019 and was sworn in on February 10, 2020.

Judge Jantz graduated from Dartmouth College in 1999. She graduated from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 2002. After graduation, she clerked for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals’ Staff Attorneys’ Office from 2002 to 2004. Judge Jantz then practiced at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago, focusing on class actions and product liability. From 2008 to 2019, Judge Jantz served as an attorney with the Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Illinois.

Judge Jantz was the President of the Chicago Inn of Court from 2019 to 2020. She serves on many court committees, including the Sentencing Options that Achieve Results Program (“SOAR”), which is a pretrial diversion program for criminal defendants; the 7th Circuit Criminal Jury Instructions Committee; and the Administrative Office’s “Roadways to the Bench” program.