diff --git a/apptools/logger/api.py b/apptools/logger/api.py
index 603c6d971..4e2093320 100644
--- a/apptools/logger/api.py
+++ b/apptools/logger/api.py
@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@
 from .logger import FORMATTER, LEVEL, LogFileHandler
 from .log_point import log_point
 from .filtering_handler import FilteringHandler
-from .null_handler import NullHandler
diff --git a/apptools/logger/null_handler.py b/apptools/logger/null_handler.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 14241b42a..000000000
--- a/apptools/logger/null_handler.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2005, Enthought, Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
-#
-# This software is provided without warranty under the terms of the BSD
-# license included in enthought/LICENSE.txt and may be redistributed only
-# under the conditions described in the aforementioned license.  The license
-# is also available online at http://www.enthought.com/licenses/BSD.txt
-# Thanks for using Enthought open source!
-#
-# Author: Enthought, Inc.
-# Description: <Enthought pyface package component>
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-""" A null log handler. """
-
-
-# Standard library imports.
-import logging
-
-
-class NullHandler(logging.Handler):
-    """A null log handler.
-
-    This is a quick hack so that we can start to refactor the 'logger'
-    module since it used to add actual handlers at module load time.
-
-    Now we only add this handler so that people using just the ETS library and
-    not one of our applications won't see the warning about 'no handlers'.
-
-    """
-
-    ###########################################################################
-    # 'Handler' interface.
-    ###########################################################################
-
-    def emit(self, record):
-        """ Emits a log record. """
-
-        pass
diff --git a/docs/releases/upcoming/216.removal.rst b/docs/releases/upcoming/216.removal.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..19b0d26a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/releases/upcoming/216.removal.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+remove NullHandler from ``apptools.logger`` (#216)
\ No newline at end of file