diff --git a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/response/transform/LTRFeatureLoggerTransformerFactory.java b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/response/transform/LTRFeatureLoggerTransformerFactory.java
index 9585a7f97ab..beb5ddf22ef 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/response/transform/LTRFeatureLoggerTransformerFactory.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/response/transform/LTRFeatureLoggerTransformerFactory.java
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 package org.apache.solr.ltr.response.transform;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Locale;
@@ -47,8 +46,6 @@ import org.apache.solr.response.transform.DocTransformer;
 import org.apache.solr.response.transform.TransformerFactory;
 import org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher;
 import org.apache.solr.util.SolrPluginUtils;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 /**
  * This transformer will take care to generate and append in the response the
@@ -65,8 +62,6 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 public class LTRFeatureLoggerTransformerFactory extends TransformerFactory {
 
-  private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());
-
   // used inside fl to specify the format (dense|sparse) of the extracted features
   private static final String FV_FORMAT = "format";
 
diff --git a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/search/LTRQParserPlugin.java b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/search/LTRQParserPlugin.java
index 2b4d570bdd5..c5db963581a 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/search/LTRQParserPlugin.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/search/LTRQParserPlugin.java
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 package org.apache.solr.ltr.search;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -46,8 +45,6 @@ import org.apache.solr.search.QParserPlugin;
 import org.apache.solr.search.RankQuery;
 import org.apache.solr.search.SyntaxError;
 import org.apache.solr.util.SolrPluginUtils;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 /**
  * Plug into solr a rerank model.
@@ -60,8 +57,6 @@ public class LTRQParserPlugin extends QParserPlugin implements ResourceLoaderAwa
   public static final String NAME = "ltr";
   private static Query defaultQuery = new MatchAllDocsQuery();
 
-  private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());
-
   // params for setting custom external info that features can use, like query
   // intent
   static final String EXTERNAL_FEATURE_INFO = "efi.";