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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: Succession Chart

March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	February 8, 1895 28 Stat. 643	March 3, 1905 33 Stat. 992	June 18, 1910 36 Stat. 539¹	May 31, 1938 52 Stat. 584	August 3, 1949 63 Stat. 493	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80
Gresham, Walter Q. 1891-1893	Woods, William A. 1892-1901	Showalter, John W. 1895-1898	Kohlsaat, Christian C. 1905-1918	Mack, Julian W. 1911-1929	Kerner, Otto, Sr. 1938-1952	Swaim, Hardress N. 1949-1957	Swygert, Luther M. 1961-1981
Jenkins, James G. 1893-1905	Baker, Francis E. 1902-1924	Grosscup, Peter S. 1899-1911	Page, George T. 1919-1930		Schnackenberg, Elmer J. 1953-1968	Parkinson, William L. 1957-1959	Eschbach, Jesse E. 1981-1985
Seaman, William H. 1905-1915	Anderson, Albert B. 1925-1929	Alschuler, Samuel 1915-1936	FitzHenry, Louis 1933-1935		Stevens, John Paul 1970-1975	Kiley, Roger J. 1961-1974	Kanne, Michael S. 1987-2022
Evans, Evan A. 1916-1948	Sparks, William M. 1929-1948	Treanor, Walter E. 1937-1941	Major, James E. 1937-1956		Wood, Harlington, Jr. 1976-1992	Tone, Philip W. 1974-1980	Kolar, Joshua P. 2024-
Duffy, F. Ryan 1949-1966	Finnegan, Philip J. 1949-1959	Minton, Sherman 1941-1949	Hastings, John S. 1957-1969		Rovner, Ilana K. D. 1992-2024	Posner, Richard A. 1981-2017
Fairchild, Thomas E. 1966-1981	Castle, Latham 1959-1970	Lindley, Walter C. 1949-1958	Pell, Wilbur F., Jr. 1970-1984		Maldonado, Nancy L. 2024-	Scudder, Michael Y., Jr. 2018-
Coffey, John L. 1982-2004	Sprecher, Robert A. 1971-1982	Knoch, Winfred G. 1958-1967	Manion, Daniel A. 1986-2007
Sykes, Diane S. 2004-	Flaum, Joel M. 1983-2020	Kerner, Otto, Jr. 1968-1974	Tinder, John D. 2007-2015
	Jackson-Akiwumi, Candace R. 2021-	Bauer, William J. 1974-1994	Barrett, Amy C. 2017-2020
		Wood, Diane P. 1995-2022	Kirsch, Thomas L. II 2020-
		Lee, John Z. 2022-

March 18, 1966 80 Stat. 75	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333
Cummings, Walter J. 1966-1999	Cudahy, Richard D. 1979-1994	Easterbrook, Frank H. 1985-	Ripple, Kenneth F. 1985-2008
Williams, Ann C. 1999-2017	Evans, Terence T. 1995-2010		Hamilton, David F. 2009-2022
St. Eve, Amy J. 2018-	Brennan, Michael B. 2018-		Pryor, Doris L. 2022-
1. The act of June 18, 1910, 36 Stat. 539, created the Commerce Court and provided for each of its five judges to serve simultaneously as a circuit judge. In accordance with the statute, President William H. Taft appointed Julian Mack to the Seventh Circuit. As Chief Justice, pursuant to his authority under the same statute, Taft reassigned Judge Mack to the Second and Sixth Circuits in 1929. In 1930, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes reassigned Mack to the Second Circuit exclusively.

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