Amy J. St. Eve was appointed as a United States Circuit Court Judge for the Seventh Circuit in 2018. Prior to her appointment, Judge St. Eve served as a United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois from 2002-18. Judge St. Eve is the Chair of the Seventh Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions Committee (2018 – present). Judge St. Eve has been a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on the Budget since 2018 and became the Chair of the Budget Committee on October 1, 2021. She previously served as a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (2013-19), the liaison to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules (2013-19), the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (2006-13), and the Federal Judicial Center’s District Judge Education Advisory Committee (2016-18). Judge St. Eve also served as the Seventh Circuit Representative to the Federal Judges Association (2007-13) and is a prior member of the Northern District of Illinois Patent Local Rules Committee. Judge St. Eve has been a member of the American Law Institute since 2018. She is also a member of the Federal Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois. She serves as an adjunct professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where she teaches trial advocacy and complex civil litigation.

Immediately before becoming a judge, Judge St. Eve served as senior counsel for litigation at Abbott Laboratories. Before joining Abbott Labs, Judge St. Eve served for five years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Judge St. Eve served for two years as an associate independent counsel for the Whitewater Independent Counsel investigation in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she second chaired the successful prosecution of former Governor Jim Guy Tucker, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal for fraud. Judge St. Eve was a litigation associate in the New York City office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP after graduating from law school. Judge St. Eve earned her B.A. from Cornell University and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served as an articles’ editor on the Cornell Law Review.

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