U.S. District Judge James Zagel, ‘Rennaisanse man’ who presided over some of Chicago’s biggest trials, dies at 82
U.S. District Judge James Zagel speaks during an appearance at Eastern Illinois University in Downstate Charleston April 19, 2012.
Pallmeyer described Zagel as a “Renaissance man,” a lover of the arts, music, and literature and “a man of elegance and charm.”“And he was a treasured friend to the attorneys and law enforcement officers he worked with for many years, his law clerks, and especially his fellow judges, who miss him dearly,” Pallmeyer said.
From 1970 to 1977, Zagel ran the criminal division of the Illinois attorney general’s office. One of his assistants was Jayne Carr, who would later marry Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson. As a colleague, Jayne Thompson said, Zagel was hard-driving, meticulous with the law and possessed of an “encyclopedic memory.”
As a jurist, he also moonlighted on the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that decides whether to issue warrants for electronic eavesdropping on terrorism suspects. His last role as an actor was as the grieving son of a murder victim in Chicago writer David Mamet’s 1991 film, “Homicide.”
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