instructions in Chapter 1 provide some definitions for terms used in the substantive
instructions.
The committee consisted of Chief District Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. (N.D. Ind.)
(Chair), Circuit Judge Terence T. Evans, District Judge Jeanne E. Scott (C.D. Ill.), District
Judge Matthew F. Kennelly (N.D. Ill.), District Judge Philip G. Reinhard (N.D. Ill.), District
Judge Virginia Kendall (N.D. Ill.), Joel Bertocchi (Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago),
Lory Barsdate Easton (Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago), Max W. Hittle (Krieg
Devault Alexander & Capehart, Indianapolis), now-Magistrate Judge Iain Johnston (then of
Holland & Knight, Chicago), Dennis R. McBride (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, Milwaukee), Howard A. Pollack (Godfrey & Kahn, Milwaukee), Richard H.
Schnadig and Michael Cleveland (Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, Chicago), Thomas
Walsh (US Attorney’s Office, Chicago), and Don Zoufal (City of Chicago). The reporter was
Andrew R. Klein, now Dean at Indiana University McKinney School of Law. As the
Committee turned to revising the original set of instructions, several others were appointed
to the Committee: Circuit Judge David F. Hamilton, District Judges Virginia M. Kendall and
Tanya Walton Pratt, and practitioners Anthony Baisch, John R. Maley, Karen P. Layng, and
Christina M. Egan; Jeffery O. Cooper of the McKinney School of Law succeeded Dean Klein
as reporter.
Several subcommittees provided enormous assistance to the Committee through work
in discrete areas. Without the work of those attorneys, the Committee’s work would have
taken far longer. The Committee and all users of these pattern instructions owe a large debt
of gratitude to the members of those subcommittees who did not also serve on the
Committee: Magistrate Judge Mary Rowland, Magistrate Judge Sidney Schenkier, Ms.
Meredith Addy, Mr. James P. Baker, Ms. Sharon Baldwin, Ms. Carol Anne Been, Mr.
Edward Brennan, Ms. Jonelle Burnham, Mr. James P. Chapman, Ms. Kathleen Delaney, Ms.
Sally Elson, Ms. Liza Franklin, Mr. William Frazier, Mr. James Hall, Mr. Patrick Harrington,
Ms. Laurie Haynie, Mr. William Hooks, Mr. Michael Kanovitz, Ms. Mary Lee Leahy, Mr.
David Locke, Mr. Patrick J. Londrigan, Ms. Karen McNaught, Mr. Edward Manzo, Mr.
David Melton, Ms. Patricia Mendoza, Mr. Paul W. Mollica, Mr. Jeff Monks, Mr. John
Ouska, Mr. Mark Partridge, Ms. Ann Peacock, Mr. Thomas Peters, Mr. L. Steven Platt, Mr.
Joseph Polick, Mr. Ronald Stearney. Ms. Monica Thompson, Mr. Joel Tragesser, Mr. Donald
Rupert, Mr. Wayne Uhl, Mr. Paul Vickrey, and Mr. James White.
The Committee also thanks the law firms that hosted the Committee’s working
sessions — Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw; Sidley Austin Brown & Wood; Vedder Price
Kaufman & Kammholz; Holland & Knight; Hinshaw & Culbertson; Brinks, Hofer, Gilson
& Lione; and Husch, Blackwell, Sanders, Welsh & Katz. Their hospitality allowed the
Committee to use its meeting time as efficiently as possible.
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