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
Assumed office
July 1, 2019
Preceded byRuben Castillo
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Assumed office
October 22, 1998
Appointed byBill Clinton
Preceded byWilliam Thomas Hart
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
In office
1991–1998
Personal details
Born (1954-09-13) September 13, 1954
Tokyo, Japan
EducationValparaiso 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]

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gollark: Most trips are *not* that long, and I figure for long ones, if there was more automation and efficiency in the process, you could rent a longer-range car temporarily (in some hypothetical world where this is a common thing).
gollark: Well, then you can use... a non-electric car, for now.
gollark: It's not like you need most cars to be able to satisfy every eventuality.
gollark: As I sort of said, I think having a personal car around all the time which is designed for really long trips and incurs a lot of expense that way is kind of wasteful.

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.
Legal offices
Preceded by
William Thomas Hart		 Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
1998–present		 Incumbent
Preceded by
Ruben Castillo		 Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
2019–present
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