Rebecca Pallmeyer | |
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Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | |
Assumed office July 1, 2019 | |
Preceded by | Rubén Castillo |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | |
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 | Rebecca Ruth Pallmeyer [1] September 13,1954 Tokyo,Japan |
Education | Valparaiso University (B.A.) University of Chicago (J.D.) |
Rebecca Ruth Pallmeyer [2] is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Pallmeyer was born September 13,1954,in Tokyo,Japan. [3] 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. [1] She was a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 1991 to 1998.
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. [4]
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. [5] [6]
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