Ilana Rovner

Ilana Kara Diamond Rovner (born in 1938 in Riga, Latvia) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She was appointed by President George H.W. Bush on August 17, 1992, and was the first woman appointed to the Seventh Circuit.^[1]

Prior to serving on the Seventh Circuit, Judge Rovner was a judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She was appointed to that office by President Ronald Reagan on September 12, 1984, and served until her appointment to the Seventh Circuit.

[edit] Education and career

Rovner graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1960. She studied at King's College London for one year. She then attended Georgetown Law School for two years, but left the school when she got married and moved to Chicago. She finished her law degree at Illinois Institute of Technology (now Chicago-Kent College of Law) in 1966.

Rovner worked in the U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of Illinois from 1973 to 1977, serving as chief of the Public Protection Unit from 1976 to 1977. She was then Deputy Governor and legal counsel for Governor James R. Thompson of Illinois from 1977 to 1984.