The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable David Coar

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable David Coar

4/2/2003

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2003.063

Federal judge The Honorable David Coar (1943 - ) was a judge in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and was later appointed as a judge of the U.S. District Court of Illinois. In this role, Coar has made a number of landmark decisions, including his 1999 fining of anti-abortion leaders under RICO statutes, which had been used to prosecute members of the mafia. Coar was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 4/2/2003, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 30m 46s

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Coar, Judge David H., b. 1943.

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Judge David H. Coar was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on August 11, 1943. Coar was the oldest of three children and attended a religious school at the elementary level before graduating from a public high school in 1960. After commencement, Coar went to Syracuse University, earning his B.A. in 1964. In 1969, he earned his J.D. from Loyola University in Chicago, and a year later he received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School.Coar began teaching at DePaul University in 1974, and remained there for f...