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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Diane Schwerm Sykes |
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December 23, 1957
(67 years)
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| Info | Diane Schwerm Sykes (born December 23, 1957 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She received a B.S. degree at Northwestern University in 1980, and a J.D. at Marquette University Law School in 1984.
After law school, Sykes clerked for Judge Terence T. Evans at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. She was in private practice from 1985 to 1992 in Milwaukee. Sykes then became a trial judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court in 1992. She left the trial court in 1999 for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, where she served until her appointment to the Seventh Circuit in 2004.
Sykes was nominated by President Bush on November 14, 2003 to a seat on the Seventh Circuit, and was confirmed 70-27 by the U.S. Senate on June 24, 2004.
On joining the Seventh Circuit, Sykes began serving on the same court as her former mentor, Terence T. Evans, who had been elevated to the Seventh Circuit by President Clinton in 1995. It is extremely rare for a judge and a former law clerk to serve together on the same court.
Sykes has been mentioned as a potential nominee to the Supreme Court during the George W. Bush presidency.
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