Lefkow received her commission on July 11, 2000.

In January 2002, Lefkow ruled in favor of Hale, but her decision was overturned on appeal.

In response to this decision, Hale sued Lefkow on December 24, falsely claiming that her order violated the Constitution in requiring the destruction of the group's bibles.

Around this time, threats were made against Lefkow on the internet and her home address and family photographs of her husband and children were posted on the Stormfront. org website.

On February 28, 2005, Lefkow returned home to find the bodies of both her husband and mother in the basement of her North Side home.

On May 18, 2005, Judge Lefkow testified before the U. S. Congress on the problem of providing security for judges, placing some of the blame for the attack on her family on rhetoric against judges issued by persons such as Pat Robertson.

Investigators also found over three hundred. 22 caliber shells in the vehicle, casings of the same caliber that were found in the Lefkow home.

In 2005, The New York Times quoted White as having " laughed " when United States district court judge Joan Lefkow's husband and mother were murdered because Lefkow had ruled against white supremacist Matthew Hale in a trademark dispute.

Joan Humphrey Lefkow ( born January 9, 1944 ) is a United States district court senior judge for the Northern District of Illinois.

The FBI informant in that trial received several death threats, and Lefkow initially was protected by a detail of the United States Marshals Service.

On September 1, 2012, Lefkow assumed senior status.

Lefkow was born in Nemaha County, Kansas.

In May 2000, Judge Lefkow presided over the enforcement of a high-profile trademark infringement case against the World Church of the Creator, an organization run by white supremacist leader Matthew F. Hale.

On July 25, Lefkow ruled against Hale, saying that his church infringed the Church of the Creator's trademark.

On January 8, 2003, Hale was arrested on charges of plotting to murder Lefkow.

On April 24, Judge Lefkow ruled that the Creativity Movement had failed to stop using the name " World Church of the Creator " and should be fined $ 1, 000 a day until it complied.

On April 6, 2005, Hale was sentenced to a 40-year prison term for soliciting an undercover FBI informant to kill Judge Lefkow.

According to an anonymous federal source, both Michael F. Lefkow, 64, and Donna Humphrey, 89, had been shot multiple times.

Ross was a plaintiff in a medical malpractice case that Lefkow had dismissed.

He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

Conchita nagged at the younger children, attempting without success to keep her thoughts off Tom Brannon.

Even as she called to the children, Conchita let her gaze seek Tom Brannon.

Some of the children of the family could not pronounce this name and called her Paula, a soubriquet Carl liked so much she has been Paula ever since.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

Mrs. DePugh, the mother of five children and an active member of her husband's organization, participated in all the exercises.

A young woman who looked like Alix, with her two children.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

Later on, the children told her further about somersaulting.

Overwhelmed with the care of five young children and concerned about persistent economic difficulties due to her husband's marginal income, her defense of denial was excessively strong.

Each card is expected to show certain information about the individual concerned, including his or her date of birth ( or age at a specified time ), spouses, and children.

Mrs. Child, true to her word, helped place Anna and her four children with a Quaker family named Hathaway near Canandaigua, New York.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

Mrs. Molvar, who kept reiterating her request that they `` please take a stand '', said, `` We must have faith in somebody -- on the local level, and it wouldn't be possible for everyone to rush to a school to get their children ''.

But when he called for his withered, wrinkled sister Rose to care for him and the children, had he guessed that all he would remember of his woman was the memory of her climbing into that streetcar??

It made him pretty hot under the collar, after the idea Miss Sis had given him, to be told by Miss Kiz that her holy spa was all reserved for this summer and next, if you please, and that much as she regretted it, they would be unable to entertain Mrs. Robards and the children.

The children are eating, and Miss Blackwell's on her way somewheres ''.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''

He hovered over her to shield her, for spent bullets were thudding against the rear walls.

All of her movements were careful and methodical, partaking of the stealth of a criminal who has plotted his felony for months in advance and knows exactly which step to take next in the course of the final execution of his crime.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

He would tell her not to pry into grownups' affairs -- as though she were a little kid like Elena!!

And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.

I noted that her full breasts were bare and that she wore a garland of red pandanus fruit in her blue-black hair.