Profiles in Leadership | Hon. Diane Wood
Deeply honored to secure the first interview with Hon. Diane Wood as Director of The American Law Institute for Penn State Dickinson Law’s ‘Profiles in Leadership’ series. Judge Wood is the first woman to hold this position at the Institute.
Judge Wood has been on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit since 1995, serving as Chief Judge from 2013 to 2020. Judge Wood is also a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she teaches in the areas of federal civil procedure, antitrust law, and international trade and business.
Before her appointment to the bench, she was the Harold J. and Marion F. Green Professor of International Legal Studies at the University of Chicago Law School, the first woman to hold a named chair at the school. She also served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, with responsibility for the Division’s international, appellate, and legal policy matters.
