The Hon.

Doris

L.

Pryor

Honorable Doris L. Pryor, 

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

The Honorable Doris L. Pryor was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on December 9, 2022.

Honorable Doris L. Pryor was appointed to the position of United States Magistrate Judge on February 28, 2018, for the Southern District of Indiana. At the time of her appointment to the bench, Judge Pryor served as the National Security Chief for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana from September 2014 until mid-February 2018. In August 2006, she joined the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. From August 2005 through August 2006, Judge Pryor served as a Deputy Public Defender in the State of Arkansas Public Defender’s Commission. She also has served as a federal law clerk, for Judge J. Leon Holmes in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas (August 2004-August 2005), and for Chief Judge Lavenski Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (August 2003-August 2004).
 

Judge Pryor graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1999 from the University of Central Arkansas, where she majored in political science. She obtained her law degree from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2003 and was admitted to the bar the same year. Judge Pryor has since been admitted to practice in numerous state and federal courts, including Indiana.

Judge Pryor has served as an adjunct professor at Robert H. McKinney School of Law and has lectured at Maurer School of Law for the past several years. She is a masters member of the McKinney-Shepard Indianapolis Inn of Court, the Indianapolis Bar Association, former Board President of Goodwill Education Initiatives and was a founding member of the Southern District of Indiana REACH Re-entry Court.