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Rebecca Ruth Pallmeyer (born September 13, 1954) is the chief United States district judge of the
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.


Education and career

Pallmeyer was born September 13, 1954, in
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. Pallmeyer received a
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degree from
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in 1976 and a
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from the
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in 1979. She was a
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to
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, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice, from 1979 to 1980. She was in private practice in
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, 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
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of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 1991 to 1998.


Federal judicial service

Pallmeyer was nominated by President
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on July 31, 1997, to a seat on the
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vacated by Judge William Thomas Hart. She was confirmed by the
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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.


See also

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List of first women lawyers and judges in Illinois This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Illinois. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their s ...


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pallmeyer, Rebecca R. 1954 births Living people 20th-century American judges 20th-century American women judges 21st-century American judges 21st-century American women judges Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Lawyers from Tokyo United States district court judges appointed by Bill Clinton United States magistrate judges Valparaiso University alumni