Rebecca R. Pallmeyer

Rebecca R. Pallmeyer (born September 13, 1954)[1] is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Rebecca R. Pallmeyer
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2019
Preceded by	Rubén Castillo
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Incumbent
Assumed office October 22, 1998
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	William Thomas Hart
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
In office 1991–1998
Personal details
Born	September 13, 1954 Tokyo, Japan
Education	Valparaiso University (B.A.) University of Chicago Law School (J.D.)

Education and career

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Pallmeyer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Valparaiso University in 1976 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1979. She was a law clerk to Rosalie E. Wahl, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice, from 1979 to 1980. She was in private practice in Chicago, Illinois from 1980 to 1985 at the law firm of Hopkins & Sutter. She was an administrative law judge on the Illinois Human Rights Commission from 1985 to 1991. She was a United States Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 1991 to 1998.

Federal judicial service

Pallmeyer was nominated by President Bill Clinton on July 31, 1997, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by Judge William Thomas Hart. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 21, 1998, and received her commission on October 22, 1998.

On July 1, 2019 she became Chief Judge of the Northern District of Illinois. She is the first female to do so, in the nearly 200 years of the court's existence.[2][3]

References

1. "Pallmeyer; Rebecca R." Sullivan's Judicial Profiles. Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
2. Sobol, Rosemary (March 15, 2019). "Rebecca Pallmeyer to be first female chief judge in long history of Chicago's federal court". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
3. Greene, Morgan (July 5, 2019). "Chicago federal court gets first female chief judge". The Eagle. Retrieved July 6, 2019.

External links

• Rebecca R. Pallmeyer at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• Rebecca R. Pallmeyer at Ballotpedia