Background
Kennelly was born in 1956 in Marion, Indiana. He graduated from University of Notre Dame in 1978 and Harvard Law School in 1981, where he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. He was appointed as a judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 1999 by President Bill Clinton.
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