Hon. Rebecca Pallmeyer
United States District Judge
Northern District of Illinois
An opportunity for practitioners and students to enjoy lunch in a close setting with Judge Pallmeyer.
Judge Pallmeyer’s bioRebecca R. Pallmeyer graduated from Valparaiso University and earned her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School.  Following a one-year clerkship with Justice Rosalie Wahl of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge Pallmeyer practiced in the area of commercial litigation for several years with the Chicago law firm of Hopkins and Sutter.
From 1985 until 1991, Ms. Pallmeyer was an Administrative Law Judge with the Illinois Human Rights Commission, a quasi-judicial agency responsible for enforcement of the state’s anti-discrimination laws.  On October 1, 1991, Ms. Pallmeyer was appointed a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Illinois.  She served as Presiding Magistrate Judge from 1996 until 1998.  On July 31, 1997, President Clinton nominated her for a seat in the U.S. District Court in Chicago.  The Senate confirmed her nomination on October 21, 1998.  In March 2002 and April 2003, Judge Pallmeyer traveled to Romania to consult with Romanian court officials on judicial administration and court reform.
Judge Pallmeyer has presided over dozens of civil and criminal trials, including the prosecution for public corruption of the former governor of the State of Illinois, George Ryan. She speaks frequently on practice and procedure in federal court and on substantive legal issues.  Judge Pallmeyer participates in the District Court’s Patent Pilot Program.
Judge Pallmeyer serves as a member on the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the United States Judicial Conference.  She is an honorary fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the ALI-CLE Employment and Labor Law Advisory Panel.  Since 2006, Judge Pallmeyer has served on the faculty for the annual ALI-CLE program, Current Developments in Employment Law, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Judge Pallmeyer is past President of the Lawyers Club of Chicago, Judicial Counselor of the Richard Linn American Inn of Courts, and an active member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, and the American Bar Association.
Attorneys with active matters before Judge Pallmeyer should not attend this event.