Prior to her appointment, Judge St. Eve served as a United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois from 2002-18. Judge St. Eve is the Chair of the Seventh Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions Committee (2018 – present). Judge St. Eve has been a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on the Budget since 2018 and became
the Chair of the Budget Committee on October 1, 2021. She previously served as a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (2013-19), the liaison to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules (2013 19), the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (2006-13), and the Federal Judicial Center’s District Judge Education Advisory Committee (2016-18). Judge St. Eve also served as the Seventh Circuit Representative to the Federal Judges Association (2007- 13) and is a prior member of the Northern District of Illinois Patent Local Rules Committee. Judge St. Eve has been a member of the American Law Institute since 2018. She is also a member of the Federal Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois. She serves as an adjunct professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where she teaches trial advocacy and complex civil litigation.