# April Perry **Status: stub — expand.** U.S. District Judge for the **Northern District of Illinois**, confirmed in 2024 after an earlier U.S. Attorney nomination was blocked. Former federal prosecutor and Cook County chief ethics officer. Presided over the Chicago [[National Guard]] federalization case, issuing the **October 9, 2025** temporary restraining order that the Seventh Circuit largely left in place and that the Supreme Court declined to stay in [[Trump v. Illinois]] on December 23, 2025. After the troops withdrew, she **dismissed the case as moot from the bench on April 20, 2026**, declining Illinois's request to keep it alive: a court, she said, cannot provide ongoing protection against hypothetical future unlawful acts. ## See also - [[National Guard Federalization Flow]] · [[National Guard]] · [[Posse Comitatus Act]] · [[Insurrection Act]]