U.S. District Judge
Lutheran High School South Class of 1972

The Honorable Rebecca Pallmeyer (LHSS ’72) was active at Lutheran South in the Thespian Society and in choir. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Valparaiso and her juris doctorate (J.D.) at the University of Chicago. After clerking for a Minnesota Supreme Court justice, she practiced law with a Chicago firm from 1980 to 1985, concentrating in the area of commercial litigation. From 1985 to 1991, she served as an Administrative Law Judge with the Illinois Human Rights Commission. As a U.S. Magistrate Judge after 1991, she supervised pre-trial criminal matters and civil matters, and tried and settled complex securities, commercial, and patent cases. She was appointed a U.S. District Judge in 1998 by President Clinton. Rebecca is married to Dan McAdams, a professor at Northwestern University, and has two daughters. She and her family are members of Trinity Lutheran Church in Evanston, Illinois.