Student Intern

Student Intern

The United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois is now accepting applications for unpaid student interns. This position provides practical learning experiences gained through observing and performing assigned tasks related to educational and career interests.

These unpaid summer student internships are located in downtown Chicago, IL. The primary focus of these internships provides students with an opportunity to gain a detailed understanding of the Court's Judicial Services, Operation Services, and the Administrative Services Department. It allows students to interact with knowledgeable and experienced professionals, gain exposure to the federal government, experience firsthand what it's like to work in a courthouse setting, and earn school credit if offered by the student's school.

Dates and hours are flexible and will be determined by the Court and each student.

Students will be assigned to provide administrative support to the following departments of the Clerk's Office for the duration of the internship:

Administrative Services

The duties performed will include but are not limited to: maintaining and filing documents in financial, personnel and acquisition files, escorting contractors, taking inventory of supplies and providing supplies to internal customers, assisting with internal customers with GSA request tickets, assisting with basic maintenance of office equipment, completing data entry tasks, scheduling and coordinating interview appointments, assisting with new hire orientations, lifting and moving boxes of up to 50 lbs.

and performing other clerical duties as assigned.

Judicial Services Department

The duties performed will include but are not limited to scanning and filing juror questionnaires, preparing questionnaires for mailing to perspective jurors, assisting with the check-in of jurors, maintaining files in an orderly fashion by reorganizing, transferring, archiving, and storing as needed, lifting and moving boxes of up to 50 lbs. and performing other clerical duties as assigned.

Operations Department

The duties performed will include but are not limited to: scanning and filing documents, preparing file folders and labels to maintain documents, assisting internal and external customers with basic requests and answering inquiries, maintaining files in an orderly fashion by reorganizing, transferring, archiving, and storing as needed, lifting and moving boxes of up to 50 lbs., preparing records for shipment to the Federal Records Center and performing other clerical duties as assigned.

Operations Department – PowerPoint Project:
This internship offers a unique opportunity to a candidate that excels in creating a narrated video presentation(s). The candidate will spend their entire internship in the Operations Department working with the Manager and Supervisors to develop a creative, narrated training video based on the handbooks/guides. The ideal candidate must be creative, have the required technical skills, must be able to accept critique and make the required edits.

A candidate must currently be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program. The successful candidate must be punctual, detail-oriented, and able to provide a high level of customer service. The candidate must be able to display professional and positive demeanor and appearance appropriate for a court environment (business/office wear-professional). Preference will be provided to those pursuing a major or minor in behavioral science, sociology, political science, criminology, psychology or another social science.

A candidate must adhere to court confidentiality requirements, Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees and social media policy.

Consideration will only be given to those who apply through the court's online applicant tracking system and provide a cover letter and resume by August 10, 2026. To view openings and  our applicant tracking system.

Due to the volume of applications received, the Court will only communicate with those applicants who will be interviewed. Applicants selected for interviews will be communicated to only…