In 2004, he received the USAID Outstanding Citizen Achievement Citation for his work with the Russian judicial system.
[1] Mihm was born in 1943, in Amboy, Illinois, he grew up on a farm, and his mother was a school teacher.
[2] He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loras College in 1964 and received a Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1967.
[3] Mihm presided over the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who pleaded guilty in 2009 to conspiring to provide material aid to Al Qaeda.
[4] Federal authorities arrested al-Marri in 2001 for credit card fraud, then deemed him an enemy combatant, and detained him without charge for over six years.