United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is a federal appellate court with appellate jurisdiction over the courts in the following districts:

• Central District of Illinois
• Northern District of Illinois
• Southern District of Illinois
• Northern District of Indiana
• Southern District of Indiana
• Eastern District of Wisconsin
• Western District of Wisconsin

The court is based at the Everett M. Dirksen Federal Building in Downtown Chicago. It is one of thirteen United States courts of appeals, composed of eleven judges.

The court offers a unique internet presence that includes wiki and RSS feeds of opinions and oral arguments. No other United States District or Appellate Court offers oral arguments using these feeds to the internet with the exception of United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit which offers RSS features.

Judges

Current judges

The Chief Judge of the court is Frank Easterbrook.

Terence Evans Joel Flaum David Hamilton Michael Kanne Richard Posner

Ilana Rovner Diane Sykes John Tinder Ann Williams Diane Wood

A vacancy on the Seventh Circuit is coming in 2010, when Judge Evans takes senior status. The Wisconsin Federal Judicial Nominating Commission has recommended federal district judge Lynn Adelman, Milwaukee County Circuit judge Richard John Sankovitz, attorneys Dean Strang and Linda Clifford, and UW law professors Anuj Desai and Victoria Nourse to President Obama for nomination. ^[1]

Senior judges

• William Bauer
• John Coffey
• Richard Cudahy
• Daniel Manion
• Ken Ripple

External links

• United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Judges of the Seventh Circuit
• Recent opinions from FindLaw
• 7th Circuit Official Opinions Database
• Official wiki of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit — Launched April 18, 2007

References

• Federal Law Clerk Information System
• Website of the University of Texas Law School
• Official website of the Federal Judicial Center

Navigation

	v • d • e Federal judges who have served the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Active judges	Chief Judge: Easterbrook • Evans • Flaum • Hamilton • Kanne • Posner • Rovner • Sykes • Tinder • Williams • Wood
Senior judges	Bauer • Coffey • Cudahy • Manion • Ripple
Former judges	Alschuler • Anderson • Baker • Castle • Cummings • Duffy • Eschbach • Evans • Fairchild • Finnegan • FitzHenry • Gresham • Grosscup • Hastings • Jenkins • Kerner, Sr. • Kerner, Jr. • Kiley • Knoch • Kohlsaat • Lindley • Mack • Major • Minton • Page • Parkinson • Pell • Schnackenberg • Seaman • Showalter • Sparks • Sprecher • Stevens • Swaim • Swygert • Tone • Treanor • Wood • Woods

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