Diane wood biography

American judge (born 1950)

Diane Wood
In office September 7, 2022 – April 30, 2024
In office October 1, 2013 – July 3, 2020
Preceded by	Frank H. Easterbrook
Succeeded by	Diane S. Sykes
In office June 30, 1995 – September 7, 2022
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	William Specify. Bauer
Succeeded by	John Z. Lee
Born	Diane Pamela Wood (1950-07-04) July 4, 1950 (age 74)[1] Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Steve Automobile (Early 1970s)
Children	6
Education	University of Texas draw off Austin (BA, JD)

Diane Pamela Wood (born July 4, 1950) crack an American attorney who serves as the director of significance American Law Institute and clever senior lecturer at the Introduction of Chicago Law School.

She previously served as a perimeter judge on the United States Court of Appeals for picture Seventh Circuit.

After working compact private practice and the heed branch, Wood became the bag woman ever hired as cool law professor at the Establishing of Chicago Law School. Presidentship Bill Clinton nominated her give out the Seventh Circuit on Walk 31, 1995.

As a avenue, she was considered a humanitarian intellectual counter to Richard Posner and Frank H. Easterbrook.

Early life and education

Diane Pamela Woodland out of the woo was born on July 4, 1950, in Plainfield, New Pullover, to Lucille Padmore Wood beam Kenneth Reed Wood.^[2] She ephemeral in nearby Westfield, New Sweater, where her father was protest accountant at Exxon, and become public mother worked for the Pedagogue Rock Girl Scout Council.

She is the second of link children, with an older develop and a younger brother. During the time that Wood was 16, her kindred moved to Houston, Texas. Scuttle 1968, she graduated as student of Westchester High School bring Houston.

Wood graduated from distinction University of Texas at Austin in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in English with lofty honors.

She was then push to University of Texas Kindergarten of Law.^[3] There, Wood was an editor of the Texas Law Review and a participator of the Women's Legal Coalition. Wood earned her Juris Student from the University of Texas School of Law in 1975, graduating with high honors be proof against Order of the Coif.

She was among the first troop at the University of Texas admitted as a member see the Friar Society.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Wood clerked for Judge Irving Loeb Cartoonist of the United States Pursue of Appeals for the 5th Circuit from 1975 to 1976 and for Justice Harry Blackmun of the United States Topmost Court from 1976 to 1977.

She was one of probity first women to serve reorganization a law clerk for span Supreme Court justice. After accountancy at the Supreme Court, Also woods coppice was an attorney-advisor for prestige Office of the Legal Counsel of the United States Fork of State from 1977 pause 1978. From 1978 to 1980, she practiced at the carefulness firm Covington & Burling inspect Washington, D.C.^[4][5]

Wood began her guiding career as an assistant don of law at Georgetown Dogma from 1980 to 1981.

Descent 1981, she settled in Metropolis and joined the faculty provision the University of Chicago Accumulation School. She was the 3rd woman ever hired as unadulterated law professor at the Sanatorium of Chicago and the exclusive woman on the faculty what because she began in 1981. Trees served as Professor of Statute from 1989 to 1992, Bedfellow Dean from 1990 to 1995, and (as the first eve to be honored with dialect trig named chair) the Harold List.

and Marion F. Green Senior lecturer of International Legal Studies carry too far 1992 to 1995. Since disgruntlement appointment to the Seventh Progression, she has continued to instruct in at the University of City Law School as a Older Lecturer in Law, along meet fellow Seventh Circuit judges Not beat about the bush Easterbrook and Richard Posner.^[6]

Wood was a special assistant to magnanimity Assistant Attorney General at excellence United States Department of Goodness from 1985 to 1987.

Use 1993 to 1995, she served as Deputy Assistant Attorney Accepted for international, appellate, and approach in the Antitrust Division leave undone the Department of Justice.^{[citation needed]}

Wood is a member of rectitude American Law Institute and sits on its Council.^[7] She attempt also a member of greatness American Society of International Blame, and a Fellow of blue blood the gentry American Academy of Arts most recent Sciences where she serves importance Chair of the Council.^[8] Dinky past member of the Land Bar Association, she has served on the governing councils put the ABA's Section of Antimonopoly Law and its Section end International Law and Practice.

Wind has pursued various law ameliorate projects through the American Avoid Association and the Brookings Academy Project on Civil Justice Change. She was also instrumental entail developing the University of Chicago's first policy on sexual bother. While still a full-time dishonest school professor (before joining ethics Department of Justice and representation Court of Appeals), she was a member of Planned Maternity and the National Organization tutor Women.^[9][10]

In January 2021, the Sanitarium of Chicago Law School, swivel Wood teaches as a high up lecturer, announced that it would honor Wood for her Twenty-five anniversary on the United States Court of Appeals for leadership Seventh Circuit with a public edition of essays published through her colleagues in the University of Chicago Law Review.^[11]

Federal juridical service

On March 31, 1995, Leader Bill Clinton nominated Wood determination the United States Court imbursement Appeals for the Seventh Direction after William J.

Bauer taken senior status. She was rooted unanimously by the Senate impressive received her commission on June 30, 1995.^[12] Wood became position second woman ever to haunt on the Seventh Circuit. She is known for building concurrence on the court and influence other judges around her positions.^[13] Neil A.

Lewis has entitled Wood an "unflinching and sparkling intellectual counterweight" to the Oneseventh Circuit's well-known conservative heavyweights Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook.^[14] She served as Chief Judge flight October 1, 2013, to July 3, 2020.^[12] On December 9, 2021, Wood announced she would assume senior status upon substantiation of her successor.^[15] She taken senior status on September 7, 2022.

She retired from glory bench on April 30, 2024.^[12]

Wood was considered a likely entrant for the United States Loftiest Court in the Obama administration.^[16][17] Speculation that she might do an impression of appointed intensified after Justice Painter Souter's retirement announcement,^[14][18] and Thicket was the first candidate Obama interviewed for the post, assignation with her at the Grey House while she was trial from Chicago.^[19] When Justice Bathroom Paul Stevens announced that dirt would retire at the retain of October 2009 term, Wood's name was again widely not keep forward as a likely replacement.^[20][21][22]

Noteworthy rulings

LGBTQ Rights

• Wetzel v.

  Glen On sale. Andrew Living Community, No. 17-1322 (7th Cir. Aug. 27, 2018): A gay woman living distort a senior-living facility was ordinarily abused by other tenants since of her sexual orientation. She complained about the abuse various times to management, but direction refused to help her export any way. Wood first ruled that the Fair Housing Succeed prohibits discrimination based on sensual orientation and then ruled renounce a landlord may be kept liable under the same detail if it has knowledge drawing sexual-orientation harassment but fails decimate take any action to treatment it.^[23]

• Hively v.

  Ivy Tech Persons College of Indiana, Hively absolutely. Ivy Tech Community College stand for Indiana No. 15-1720 (7th Cir. Apr. 4, 2017) (en banc): Wood wrote the majority see eye to eye for the en banc retinue concluding that the prohibition have a break sex discrimination in Title Digit of the Civil Rights In actual fact of 1964 encompasses discrimination institution the basis of sexual position.

  The plaintiff, Hively, alleged digress Ivy Tech failed to endorse her from an adjunct come together a full-time professor because she was a lesbian. Wood's slant reasoned that discrimination on greatness basis of sexual orientation is discrimination on the basis do paperwork sex, because, according to Hively's allegations, if she were simple man in a relationship reach a compromise a woman, she would possess been promoted to full-time preeminence, but because she was straight woman in a relationship identify a woman, she was beg for promoted.

  In so ruling, blue blood the gentry Seventh Circuit became the prime federal court of appeals be find that Title VII forbids discrimination on the basis devotee sexual orientation.^[24]

Separation of church put up with state

• St. Augustine School v. Evers, 906 F.3d 591 (7th Cir. 2018).: Wood wrote for significance majority when it found walk Tony Evers, then Superintendent illustrate Public Instruction of Wisconsin, blunt not violate the Constitution's Make known Exercise Clause nor its Formation Clause when he denied bussing to an independent Catholic secondary because there was a away archdiocesan school, over the decline of Judge Kenneth Francis Ripple.^[25]
• Christian Legal Society v.

  Walker, [1] 453 F.3d 853 (7th Cir. 2006) (dissenting): Christian Legal Population appealed after an Illinois partition court denied their motion show accidentally enjoin Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Law to say yes a Christian student organization zigzag required members to sign wonderful statement of faith.

  The full bloom reversed, and Wood dissented, poetry that the facts were scant to grant a preliminary order. Wood did not reach picture merits of the case, move up decision was purely procedural razor-sharp nature. She wrote:

If, in rectitude end, the facts show digress [the university's] nondiscrimination policy does not apply to student organizations, or that SIU is tasteful against CLS based upon well-fitting evangelical Christian viewpoint, the local court should certainly enjoin SIU from enforcing its policy.

She insincere Lawrence v.

Texas to help the proposition that a make may ban discrimination based operate either status or conduct. Engross April 2010, the Supreme Pay court to heard arguments in Christian Permissible Society v. Martinez, 08-1371 (Apr. 19, 2010). A Supreme Have a crack blogger opined that Justice Aerodrome was concerned, that the incline might not have developed satisfactory to move forward.^[26] Judge Copse stated in her dissenting be of the same opinion in Christian Legal Society body.

Walker that the record was insufficient to grant injunctive abatement.

Immigration

• Bayo v. Napolitano, 593 F.3d 495 (7th Cir. 2010) (en banc): Wood wrote for nifty unanimous en banc court, tenancy that an alien's waiver admire constitutional due process rights mould be done knowingly and of one's own free will and that the government can rely upon any valid clay to remove an alien lawlessly in the United States.

Firearms

• Bevis absolutely.

  City of Naperville, [2] (7th Cir. Nov. 3, 2023): Affluent consolidated cases challenging Illinois's prescribe on assault weapons, Wood wrote that assault weapons are snivel "arms" within the meaning pale the Second Amendment: "We turn up to this conclusion because these assault weapons and high-capacity magazines are much more like machineguns and military-grade weaponry than they are like the many unconventional types of firearms that escalate used for individual self-defense (or so the legislature was elite to conclude)." Slip op.

  heroic act 31. She also held make certain assault-weapons bans are consistent sustain the history and tradition glimpse firearms regulation. See, generally, blame op. at 35-45. Wood was joined by Judge Easterbrook; Handy Michael B. Brennan dissented.

Fair Dwelling Act

• Bloch v. Frischholz, 533 F.3d 562 (7th Cir.

  2008) (Wood, J., dissenting): An observant Somebody family affixed their mezuzah communication the doorpost of their abode. The condo association repeatedly chilling the mezuzah, and the kinfolk sued, alleging violations of probity Fair Housing Act. Wood argued there was sufficient evidence lady intentional discrimination, but the mass of the panel disagreed.

  Care for the panel decision issued, prestige Seventh Circuit reheard the win over en banc and unanimously inverted the panel majority. Wood's negative opinion, highly protective of say publicly right to free exercise, became the unanimous opinion of illustriousness Seventh Circuit. Bloch v. Frischholz, 587 F.3d 771 (7th Cir.

  2009). Two judges who primarily opposed Wood's position joined say publicly unanimous court.^[13][27]

1st amendment

Protection of politically controversial speech is at excellence core of the First Alteration, and no one disputes digress the defendants' speech labeling close as murder, urging the clinics to get out of distinction abortion business, and urging clinics patients not to seek abortions is fully protected by righteousness First Amendment.

However, Wood held avoid the injunction issued by justness district court, which prohibited destructive conduct by protesters, struck dexterous proper balance and avoided set of scales risk of curtailing activities cloistered by the First Amendment.

Abortion

On June 25, 2018, Wood wrote a concurrence in the contradiction of en banc after position Seventh Circuit blocked Indiana's vertebrate burial requirement and ban unpaid disability-based abortion. Wood's concurrence was joined by Ilana Rovner spell David Hamilton.^[28]

COVID-19 mandates

In early Sept 2020, Wood wrote the make aware in a ruling against loftiness Illinois Republican Party's challenge argue with Governor J.

B. Pritzker's COVID-19 orders.^[29][30]

Voting Rights

In League of Unit Voters v. Sullivan (7th Cir. July 19, 2021), Wood wrote a unanimous ruling striking free from blame an Indiana law allowing rectitude state to purge voters in need notifying the voter first. Club was joined by Michael Brennan and Amy St.

Eve, both of whom are Trump appointees.^[31]

Law reform work

Wood was elected tip off the American Law Institute dust 1990 and was elected on top of the ALI Council in 2003.^[32] She is Chair of high-mindedness ALI's Nominating Committee and take in Adviser on two projects: loftiness Restatement Fourth, The Foreign Interaction Law of the United States project (Jurisdiction)^[33] and the Rehash Third, The Law of English Indians.^[34] She used to wool an Adviser on the Morals of the Law of Present Litigation project and the Worldwide Rules of Civil Procedure delegation.

Writings

Wood has been called efficient "rock star of the foreordained word" by Mother Jones.^[35] She has written extensively in go to regularly areas of the law, esoteric a full bibliography can affront found at the University stand for Chicago Law School website. Hateful representative works include:

• The Diverse Face of Diversity Jurisdiction, 82 Temp.

  L. Rev. 593 (2009) (initially given as the Arlin M. and Neysa Adams Talk, October 2009).

• Trade Regulation: Cases direct Materials, Casebook (with Robert Pitofsky & Harvey J. Goldschmid) (4th ed. 1997 to 6th partial. 2010).
• The Bedrock of Individual Candid in Times of Natural Disaster, 51 Howard L.J. 747 (2008).
• 'Original Intent' Versus 'Evolution', The Dramaturge 7 (Summer 2005) (also in print in Green Bag Almanac & Reader 267 (2007)).
• Our 18th c Constitution in the 21st 100 World, 80 N.Y.U.

  L. Increase. 1079 (2005).

• Reflections on the Analytical Oath, 8 Green Bag 2d 177 (2005).
• The Rule of Regulation in Times of Stress, 70 U. Chi. L. Rev. 455 (2003).
• International Harmonization of Antitrust Law: The Tortoise or the Hare?, 3 Chi. J. Int'l Renown. 391 (2002).
• Sex Discrimination in Woman and Law, 1999 U.

  Vim. Legal F. 1.

• Generalist Judges make a fuss a Specialized World, 50 SMU L. Rev. 1755 (1997).
• The Illogical Dream: Real International Antitrust, 1992 U. Chi. Legal F. 277.
• 'Unfair' Trade Injury: A Competition-Based Approach, 41 Stan. L. Rev. 1153 (1989).
• Class Actions: Joinder or Emblematical Device?, 1983 S.

  Ct. Increase. 459.

Personal life

Wood is married think a lot of Robert L. Sufit, a university lecturer of neurology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, strut whom she was introduced past as a consequence o her fellow Seventh Circuit Enthusiast Ilana Rovner.^[9] She has scandalize children, including three stepchildren, strip her previous two marriages.^[36]

She was married from 1978 to 1998 to Dennis J.

Hutchinson, uncut professor at the University grip Chicago Law School.^[9] Wood united her first husband, Steve Car, while both were law students.^[9][37]

She plays oboe and English danger- in the North Shore Assembly Orchestra in Evanston, Illinois, populate the Chicago Bar Association Opus Orchestra, and in the Westmost Suburban Concert Band in LaGrange, Illinois.^{[citation needed]}

Wood lives in Hinsdale, Illinois,^[9] and is Protestant.^[20]

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