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Diane Pamela Wood (born July 4, 1950) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Wood is married to Robert Sufit, a professor of neurology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, to whom she was introduced by her fellow Seventh Circuit Judge Ilana Rovner. She previously was married in 1978 to Dennis Hutchinson, a professor at the University of Chicago School of Law, from whom she was later divorced. Wood married her first husband, Steve Van, while both were students in law school. Wood has three children with Hutchinson and three stepchildren. She plays oboe and English horn in the North Shore Chamber Orchestra in Evanston, Illinois and in the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra in Chicago, Illinois. Wood lives in Hinsdale, Illinois. Wood was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and grew up in nearby Westfield, New Jersey. Her father was an accountant at Exxon, and her mother worked at the local Girl Scout Council. She is the middle of three children; she has an older sister Judy and a younger brother Bob.