Retired Senior Judge George Lindberg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois did a lot in his more than 34 years on the bench.

The lifelong Crystal Lake resident met his wife of more than 48 years and made stops in the Illinois House, Illinois Comptroller’s Office, Illinois Attorney General’s Office and Illinois Appellate Court’s Second District.

Lindberg’s love for all that is political and criminal came after he earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and biological science while attending law school at Northwestern in the mid-1950s.