[1][2] McDade was a staff attorney in the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division in Chicago from 1963 to 1965.

[3] He was an executive trainee at the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Peoria, Illinois in 1965.

[1] After McDade's confirmation to the federal bench, the Illinois Supreme Court appointed retired Judge James M. Bumgarner of Hennepin as circuit judge effective March 19, 1992, to December 7, 1992.

[5] McDade was nominated by President George H. W. Bush on September 11, 1991, to the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, to a new "temporary" seat created by the Federal Judgeship Act of 1990, part of the Judicial Improvements Act of 1990 (Pub.

[2] McDade's first wife, Mary, is also a judge: she has been a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court since December 2000.