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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Ind. Courts - 7th Circuit Judge Diane Wood featured today in NY Times article
Neil A. Lewis writes today in the NY Times, in a long article that begins:
WASHINGTON — When President Bill Clinton had a rare opportunity in 1995 for a Democratic president to fill a vacancy on the federal appeals court based in Chicago, a bastion of conservative thinking, he received an unusually strong recommendation from Senator Paul Simon.Mr. Simon, an outspoken liberal from Illinois who died in 2003, told the president the new judge should be a reliable progressive who would be cerebral enough to go up against the court’s two formidable conservatives, Judges Richard A. Posner and Frank H. Easterbrook. He said it should be Prof. Diane P. Wood of the University of Chicago law school.
In the years since Mr. Clinton took that advice, Judge Wood has established herself on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in the view of scholars and lawyers, as an unflinching and spirited intellectual counterweight to Judges Posner and Easterbrook. She has taken on that pair and some of the court’s other conservative judges across a wide range of cases including abortion, immigration and access to courts.
Judge Wood, 58, now ranks high on the lists of many lawyers, politicians and scholars who are speculating as to President Obama’s choice to succeed Justice David H. Souter on the Supreme Court.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 12, 2009 08:42 AM
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