Magistrate James K. Farrell began serving as a Magistrate in the Lake County Domestic Relations Division on January 2, 2003. He was in private law practice from 1981 to 2003 and was an assistant prosecuting attorney from 1979 to 1981.
Magistrate Farrell earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1973 from the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio and a Juris Doctor Degree from John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois.