Judge Diane P. Wood
Judge Diane P. Wood
Director | American Law Institute
Judge Diane P. Wood was nominated in 1995 by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, serving as Chief Judge from 2013 to 2020. She retired from the bench in 2024. She clerked on the Supreme Court for Justice Harry Blackmun (one of the first women to clerk for the Supreme Court) and previously clerked for Judge Irving Goldberg on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She has served on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School since 1981, when she was the only woman on the faculty. She also serves as Director of the American Law Institute.
