Circuit Rule 60: Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference

(a) Purpose of the Conference. The Chief Judge shall call a circuit judicial conference either annually or biennially in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 333 and all applicable Judicial Conference policies and guidance for the purpose of considering the business of the courts and advising means of improving the administration of justice within the circuit.

(b) Members of the Conference. Each active Circuit, District, Bankruptcy, and Magistrate Judge of the Circuit shall be a member of the conference. The following shall be members of the conference and are encouraged to attend: (1) Senior Circuit, District, Bankruptcy, and Magistrate Judges; (2) Circuit Executive, Deputy Circuit Executive, Senior Staff Attorney for the Seventh Circuit, staff attorneys, and law clerks to all active and senior status Circuit, District, Bankruptcy, and Magistrate Judges; (3) Clerks and Deputy Clerks of the Court of Appeals, District Courts and Bankruptcy Courts in the Circuit; (4) United States Attorneys in the Circuit and their legal staffs; (5) Federal Defenders and Community Defenders in the Circuit and their legal staffs; (6) Members of the Seventh Circuit bar; (7) Special guests invited by the Chief Judge; (8) United States Trustees in the Circuit and their legal staffs; and (9) at the discretion of the Chief Judge, any member of the bar of any court interested in the work of the courts and the administration of justice in the Circuit.

Executive Session. All or part of one day of the conference may be designated by the Chief Judge as an executive session to be attended only by active Circuit, District, Bankruptcy, and Magistrate Judges, and other court personnel.