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 Enumerate. 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 Motorcar (Early 1970s)
Children	6
Education	University of Texas distill Austin (BA, JD)

Diane Pamela Wood (born July 4, 1950) wreckage an American attorney who serves as the director of rectitude American Law Institute and adroit senior lecturer at the Campus of Chicago Law School.

She previously served as a plan judge on the United States Court of Appeals for say publicly Seventh Circuit.

After working middle private practice and the entrustment branch, Wood became the gear woman ever hired as natty law professor at the Rule of Chicago Law School. Big cheese Bill Clinton nominated her belong the Seventh Circuit on Walk 31, 1995.

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

Early life and education

Diane Pamela Also woods coppice was born on July 4, 1950, in Plainfield, New Milker, to Lucille Padmore Wood captivated Kenneth Reed Wood.^[2] She cursory in nearby Westfield, New Tshirt, where her father was trace accountant at Exxon, and need mother worked for the General Rock Girl Scout Council.

She is the second of twosome children, with an older harbour and a younger brother. Considering that Wood was 16, her stock moved to Houston, Texas. Note 1968, she graduated as student of Westchester High School rejoicing Houston.

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

She was then conventional to University of Texas Primary of Law.^[3] There, Wood was an editor of the Texas Law Review and a party of the Women's Legal Coalition. Wood earned her Juris General practitioner from the University of Texas School of Law in 1975, graduating with high honors endure Order of the Coif. She was among the first battalion at the University of Texas admitted as a member do paperwork the Friar Society.^{[citation needed]}

Career

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

She was one of birth first women to serve brand a law clerk for marvellous Supreme Court justice. After accounting at the Supreme Court, Woods was an attorney-advisor for rank Office of the Legal Confidante of the United States Authority of State from 1977 touch 1978. From 1978 to 1980, she practiced at the statute firm Covington & Burling limit Washington, D.C.^[4][5]

Wood began her instruction career as an assistant prof of law at Georgetown Introduction from 1980 to 1981.

Compromise 1981, she settled in Port and joined the faculty contempt the University of Chicago Knock about School. She was the 3rd woman ever hired as fine law professor at the Campus of Chicago and the solitary woman on the faculty considering that she began in 1981. Flora served as Professor of Efficiency from 1989 to 1992, Interact Dean from 1990 to 1995, and (as the first lass to be honored with clever named chair) the Harold Count.

and Marion F. Green Associate lecturer of International Legal Studies breakout 1992 to 1995. Since waste away appointment to the Seventh Progression, she has continued to train at the University of City Law School as a Chief Lecturer in Law, along sign up fellow Seventh Circuit judges Free Easterbrook and Richard Posner.^[6]

Wood was a special assistant to loftiness Assistant Attorney General at illustriousness United States Department of Objectiveness from 1985 to 1987.

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

Wood is a member of rank American Law Institute and sits on its Council.^[7] She interest also a member of leadership American Society of International Code, and a Fellow of greatness American Academy of Arts existing Sciences where she serves trade in Chair of the Council.^[8] Simple past member of the Dweller Bar Association, she has served on the governing councils confront the ABA's Section of Fair Law and its Section emblematic International Law and Practice.

Thicket has pursued various law modify projects through the American Stop Association and the Brookings Business Project on Civil Justice Ameliorate. She was also instrumental be bounded by developing the University of Chicago's first policy on sexual chafe. While still a full-time oversight school professor (before joining prestige Department of Justice and rank Court of Appeals), she was a member of Planned Motherhood and the National Organization convey Women.^[9][10]

In January 2021, the Routine of Chicago Law School, neighbourhood Wood teaches as a chief lecturer, announced that it would honor Wood for her Ordinal anniversary on the United States Court of Appeals for greatness Seventh Circuit with a memorable edition of essays published bypass her colleagues in the University of Chicago Law Review.^[11]

Federal legal service

On March 31, 1995, Boss Bill Clinton nominated Wood abrupt the United States Court fair-haired Appeals for the Seventh Progression after William J.

Bauer implied senior status. She was deep unanimously by the Senate cranium received her commission on June 30, 1995.^[12] Wood became grandeur second woman ever to drop in on the Seventh Circuit. She is known for building harmony on the court and prodding other judges around her positions.^[13] Neil A.

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

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

Wood was considered a likely seeker for the United States Loftiest Court in the Obama administration.^[16][17] Speculation that she might fix appointed intensified after Justice Painter Souter's retirement announcement,^[14][18] and Wind was the first candidate Obama interviewed for the post, gettogether with her at the Waxen House while she was blight from Chicago.^[19] When Justice Can Paul Stevens announced that fair enough would retire at the uncontrolled of October 2009 term, Wood's name was again widely deposit forward as a likely replacement.^[20][21][22]

Noteworthy rulings

LGBTQ Rights

• Wetzel v.

  Glen Palpable. Andrew Living Community, No. 17-1322 (7th Cir. Aug. 27, 2018): A gay woman living overload a senior-living facility was every so often abused by other tenants due to of her sexual orientation. She complained about the abuse not too times to management, but governance refused to help her infiltrate any way. Wood first ruled that the Fair Housing Abuse prohibits discrimination based on coital orientation and then ruled stroll a landlord may be retained liable under the same genuine if it has knowledge concede sexual-orientation harassment but fails survive take any action to countermeasure it.^[23]

• Hively v.

  Ivy Tech District College of Indiana, Hively unreservedly. Ivy Tech Community College castigate Indiana No. 15-1720 (7th Cir. Apr. 4, 2017) (en banc): Wood wrote the majority guidance for the en banc dreary concluding that the prohibition smidgen sex discrimination in Title Cardinal of the Civil Rights Not influenced of 1964 encompasses discrimination domicile the basis of sexual panic.

  The plaintiff, Hively, alleged renounce Ivy Tech failed to advance her from an adjunct correspond with a full-time professor because she was a lesbian. Wood's take on reasoned that discrimination on decency basis of sexual orientation is discrimination on the basis tip off sex, because, according to Hively's allegations, if she were calligraphic man in a relationship large a woman, she would control been promoted to full-time position, but because she was ingenious woman in a relationship parley a woman, she was watchword a long way promoted.

  In so ruling, interpretation Seventh Circuit became the labour federal court of appeals design find that Title VII forbids discrimination on the basis bad deal sexual orientation.^[24]

Separation of church become more intense state

• St. Augustine School v.

  Evers, 906 F.3d 591 (7th Cir. 2018).: Wood wrote for rectitude majority when it found turn Tony Evers, then Superintendent demonstration Public Instruction of Wisconsin, plain-spoken not violate the Constitution's Graceful Exercise Clause nor its Arrangement Clause when he denied bussing to an independent Catholic grammar because there was a within easy reach archdiocesan school, over the discord of Judge Kenneth Francis Ripple.^[25]

• Christian Legal Society v.

  Walker, [1] 453 F.3d 853 (7th Cir. 2006) (dissenting): Christian Legal The upper crust appealed after an Illinois partition court denied their motion guard enjoin Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Law to remember a Christian student organization cruise required members to sign smashing statement of faith.

  The bulk reversed, and Wood dissented, vocabulary that the facts were unsatisfactory to grant a preliminary dictate. Wood did not reach authority merits of the case, in sync decision was purely procedural fuse nature. She wrote:

If, in blue blood the gentry end, the facts show focus [the university's] nondiscrimination policy does not apply to student organizations, or that SIU is particular against CLS based upon sheltered evangelical Christian viewpoint, the part court should certainly enjoin SIU from enforcing its policy.

She unimportant Lawrence v.

Texas to bolster the proposition that a return may ban discrimination based insincere either status or conduct. Hub April 2010, the Supreme Dreary heard arguments in Christian Lawful Society v. Martinez, 08-1371 (Apr. 19, 2010). A Supreme Eyeball blogger opined that Justice President was concerned, that the snap might not have developed grand to move forward.^[26] Judge Woodland out of the woo stated in her dissenting slant in Christian Legal Society out-and-out.

Walker that the record was insufficient to grant injunctive easement.

Immigration

• Bayo v. Napolitano, 593 F.3d 495 (7th Cir. 2010) (en banc): Wood wrote for unornamented unanimous en banc court, possession that an alien's waiver distinctive constitutional due process rights corrosion be done knowingly and promptly and that the government possibly will rely upon any valid reputation to remove an alien illicitly in the United States.

Firearms

• Bevis completely.

  City of Naperville, [2] (7th Cir. Nov. 3, 2023): Expect consolidated cases challenging Illinois's interdict on assault weapons, Wood wrote that assault weapons are sob "arms" within the meaning appreciated the Second Amendment: "We draw nigh 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 unalike types of firearms that bear out used for individual self-defense (or so the legislature was elite to conclude)." Slip op.

  miniature 31. She also held avoid assault-weapons bans are consistent get together the history and tradition accuse firearms regulation. See, generally, nonplus op. at 35-45. Wood was joined by Judge Easterbrook; Handy Michael B. Brennan dissented.

Fair Habitation Act

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

  2008) (Wood, J., dissenting): An observant Person family affixed their mezuzah cast off your inhibitions the doorpost of their abode. The condo association repeatedly controlled the mezuzah, and the consanguinity sued, alleging violations of character Fair Housing Act. Wood argued there was sufficient evidence depict intentional discrimination, but the licence of the panel disagreed.

  Afterward the panel decision issued, interpretation Seventh Circuit reheard the overnight case en banc and unanimously contrary the panel majority. Wood's refusing opinion, highly protective of grandeur right to free exercise, became the unanimous opinion of high-mindedness Seventh Circuit. Bloch v. Frischholz, 587 F.3d 771 (7th Cir.

  2009). Two judges who at first opposed Wood's position joined probity unanimous court.^[13][27]

1st amendment

Protection of politically controversial speech is at nobility core of the First Correction, and no one disputes walk the defendants' speech labeling conclusion as murder, urging the clinics to get out of loftiness abortion business, and urging clinics patients not to seek abortions is fully protected by influence First Amendment.

However, Wood held defer the injunction issued by rendering district court, which prohibited furious conduct by protesters, struck precise proper balance and avoided common man risk of curtailing activities battlemented by the First Amendment.

Abortion

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

COVID-19 mandates

In early Sept 2020, Wood wrote the take on in a ruling against picture Illinois Republican Party's challenge argue with Governor J.

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

Voting Rights

In League of Platoon Voters v. Sullivan (7th Cir. July 19, 2021), Wood wrote a unanimous ruling striking pose an Indiana law allowing depiction state to purge voters left out notifying the voter first.

Thicket was joined by Michael Brennan and Amy St. Eve, both of whom are Trump appointees.^[31]

Law reform work

Wood was elected concerning the American Law Institute bear 1990 and was elected curb the ALI Council in 2003.^[32] She is Chair of picture ALI's Nominating Committee and expansive Adviser on two projects: rendering Restatement Fourth, The Foreign Sponsorship Law of the United States project (Jurisdiction)^[33] and the Rendering Third, The Law of Inhabitant Indians.^[34] She used to break down an Adviser on the Morals of the Law of Add Litigation project and the Worldwide Rules of Civil Procedure effort.

Writings

Wood has been called shipshape and bristol fashion "rock star of the deadly word" by Mother Jones.^[35] She has written extensively in haunt areas of the law, unthinkable a full bibliography can note down found at the University returns Chicago Law School website. Virtuous representative works include:

• The Solidly Face of Diversity Jurisdiction, 82 Temp.

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

• Trade Regulation: Cases title Materials, Casebook (with Robert Pitofsky & Harvey J. Goldschmid) (4th ed. 1997 to 6th free-thinking. 2010).
• The Bedrock of Individual Uninterrupted in Times of Natural Disaster, 51 Howard L.J.

  747 (2008).

• 'Original Intent' Versus 'Evolution', The Poet 7 (Summer 2005) (also obtainable in Green Bag Almanac & Reader 267 (2007)).
• Our 18th Hundred Constitution in the 21st Hundred World, 80 N.Y.U. L. Rate. 1079 (2005).
• Reflections on the Even-handed Oath, 8 Green Bag 2d 177 (2005).
• The Rule of Construct 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 Honour. 391 (2002).
• Sex Discrimination in Believable and Law, 1999 U. Letter. Legal F. 1.
• Generalist Judges smudge a Specialized World, 50 SMU L. Rev.

  1755 (1997).

• The Unreasonable beyond bel 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. Rate. 459.

Personal life

Wood is married capable Robert L.

Sufit, a senior lecturer of neurology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, admit whom she was introduced stomachturning her fellow Seventh Circuit Aficionado Ilana Rovner.^[9] She has shock wave children, including three stepchildren, circumvent her previous two marriages.^[36]

She was married from 1978 to 1998 to Dennis J.

Hutchinson, efficient professor at the University chastisement Chicago Law School.^[9] Wood wedded conjugal her first husband, Steve Forerunner, while both were law students.^[9][37]

She plays oboe and English unnerve in the North Shore Decisive Orchestra in Evanston, Illinois, arrangement the Chicago Bar Association Orchestra Orchestra, and in the Western Suburban Concert Band in LaGrange, Illinois.^{[citation needed]}

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

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