Michael Joseph Reagan (born 1954) is the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of IllinoisBorn in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Reagan received a B.S. from Bradley University in 1976 and a J.D. from St. Louis University in 1980. He was a law clerk in the Office of the Appellate Defender for the Fifth Appellate District of Illinois in 1978.