[1] On April 25, 1995, Evans was nominated by President Bill Clinton for elevation to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated by Richard Dickson Cudahy.

[1] On July 28, 2009, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Evans has notified the President of his intention to assume senior status on January 7, 2010, on the "30-year anniversary of when he first took the federal bench."

[1][3] Evans' judicial philosophy was marked by pragmatism, an approach well-served at the appellate level by his previous experience as a trial judge.

"Judge Richard Posner was also once the subject of Evans's wit, when he stated: Football fans know the sickening feeling: your team scores a big touchdown but then a penalty flag is tossed, wiping out the play.

[5]In another memorable quote, Evans described a case as "gummed up from the get-go",[6] describing a case where petitioner Johnson lost his chance to be heard in federal Habeas Corpus (and thus dooming him to serve the remainder of his two consecutive life sentences) because of a delay caused by the state court which made petitioner Johnson's otherwise "properly filed" application for state review technically out of time.

Indeed, they lead only to the suspicion that had plaintiffs' counsel been at the helm of the INAGUA ESPANA, their sense of direction may have prevented the goods from reaching Scotland in the first place, seawater-soaked or no.

[8]In Crawford v. Marion County Election Board (2007), Evans dissented when Posner, joined by Diane S. Sykes, upheld Indiana's voter ID law.