Chief Judge Diane P. Wood is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University Of Chicago Law School. Chief Judge Wood attended the University of Texas at Austin, earning her BA in 1971 (highest honors), and her JD in 1975 (Order of the Coif). She clerked for Judge Irving L. Goldberg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1975-76), and for Justice Harry A Blackmun of the US Supreme Court (1976-77). She began her career as a legal academic in 1980 after a brief period at the US Department of State. From 1993 until she was appointed a Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit in 1995, she served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice. She became Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit on October 1, 2013. Chief Judge Wood is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and is on the Council of the American Law Institute; she chairs the Academy’s Council. Chief Judge Wood is married to Dr. Robert L. Sufit. She has three children, three step-children, and four grandchildren. She enjoys playing the oboe and English horn in several Chicago-area amateur orchestras.