Amy Vivian Coney Barrett is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Donald Trump and has served since October 27, 2020. She previously was a United States circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and the College of William and Mary.
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Amy Vivian Coney Barrett is an American lawyer, jurist, and former academic. She serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Donald Trump and has served since October 27, 2020. She previously was a United States circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2017 to 2020. Before and while serving on the federal bench, she has been a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, where she has taught civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. Described as a protégée of Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom she clerked, Barrett supports an originalist interpretation of the Constitution. She has published in the Columbia, Cornell, Columbia, and Texas law reviews. At Notre Dame, Barrett received the \”Distinguished Professor of the Year\” award three times. In 2010, Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Barrett to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure for the federal appeals court. She commuted between Chicago and South Bend, Indiana, to teach continuing education courses on constitutional theory, statutory interpretation, and stare decisis. She is the eldest of seven children and has five sisters and a brother. Her father worked as an attorney for Shell Oil Company and her mother was a high school French teacher and homemaker. Her great-great-grandparents emigrated from France to New Orleans. Her family is devoutly Catholic, and her father is an ordained deacon at St.
Catherine of Siena Parish in Metairie, Louisiana. She graduated from Rhodes College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude and was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa. She practiced law at Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, a boutique law firm for litigation in Washington, D. C., that merged with the Houston, Texas-based law firm Baker Botts in 2001. She worked on Bush v. Gore, the lawsuit that grew out of the 2000 United States presidential election, providing research and briefing assistance for the firm’s representation of George W. W. Bush. Barrett served as a visiting associate professor and John M. Olin Fellow in Law at George Washington University Law School for a year before returning to her alma mater, Notre Damelaw School, in 2002. Her scholarship on constitutional law has focused on originalism, statutoryism, and staredism. She received the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, a summer program for law school students that aims to inspire a “distinctly Christian worldview in every area of life” She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and the College of William and Mary. Barrett is the daughter of Linda Coney and Michael Coney. She grew up in New Orleans and attended St. Mary’s Dominican High School, an all-girls Roman Catholic high school, from which she graduated in 1990. She spent two years as a judicial law clerk after law school, first for Judge Laurence Silberman.
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