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Judge Wilbur F. Pell, Jr. Courtesy of the Seventh Circuit Library.

Wilbur Pell was the most recently appointed of the three judges who heard the appeals associated with the Chicago conspiracy trial. Pell had joined the court in April 1970 following his appointment by President Nixon. In a dissent from the majority opinion of the court on the appeal of the convictions on the charge of incitement to riot, in United States v. David T. Dellinger et al., Pell argued that the Anti-Riot Act was an unconstitutional infringement of free speech.

Pell graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1940 and practiced law in his native Indiana for many years. He also served as an FBI agent and as deputy attorney general of Indiana.