Rovner, Seventh Circuit’s First Woman Judge, to Semi-Retire

Judge Ilana Rovner, the first woman appointed to the Chicago-based US appeals court, announced plans to take a form of semi-retirement.

Rovner was appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit by President H. W. Bush in 1992. She had earlier served as a judge on the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois since 1984.

“In this, my 40th year as a federal judge,” Rovner wrote in a Friday letter to President Joe Biden that “I intend to leave active service and assume senior status upon the confirmation and appointment of my successor.”

Rovner ...