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Stephen L. Spomer was born in Urbana, Illinois, on April 14^th, 1949, and grew up in Cairo, Illinois.  He graduated from Tulane University in 1971 and Tulane Law School in 1974.  After school, Spomer worked as a public defender and then a State’s Attorney of Massac County (1976-1978).  Spomer was elected a Circuit Court Judge in 1978 in the First Judicial Circuit and served in that position until 2005, he ran as a Republican.  In 1992 he was elected as a Chief Judge for the First Circuit which lasted until 1998.  In 2005 he was appointed to the Fifth District Appellate Court and he retired from the bench in 2014.  He has a wife, Debra, and a daughter, Amy. 

Judge Stephen L. Spomer: An Oral History