But many Trump judicial appointees were traditional Republican judges whom any Republican president would have appointed. Bridgeport. District Judge Michelle Marie Gabrielle Campbell. Unsurprisingly, Calabresi leads, with 1.68 academic former clerks per year on the bench, meaning an average of more than 1.5 Calabresi clerks from each term has entered teaching. Neil Gorsuch (appointed by President Trump in 2017), Brett Kavanaugh (appointed in 2018), and Amy Coney Barrett (appointed in 2020) have not been on the Court long enough to have clerks enter teaching, for the same reasons as many lower-court judges discussed in Part III.25 Stephanie Barclay did take a leave from her faculty position at Brigham Young University, a top-50 law school, to clerk for Gorsuch during October Term 2019.26. 2. Eighteen state-court judges with two or more academic former clerks. The list of academic feeders among lower-court judges skews towards court of appeals judges, with hiring schools apparently viewing those clerkships as more prestigious and those former clerks as more desirable candidates. Webfeeder-judge phenomenon in the 1976-1985 and 1995-2004 terms of the Court. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeal denied a writ sought by State Auto, leaving it to the states high court to decide the matter. The state-specific clerkship on a states highest court may be less appealing to a budding academic or to a law-school hiring committee. Please email us or text us (646-820-8477). Judicature | Bolch Judicial Institute | 210 Science Drive | Durham, NC 27708-0362 | (919) 613-7073 | judicature@law.duke.edu Juvenile Drug Courts. Five of the top seven feeder judges were academics before joining the bench Calabresi at Yale, Williams at University of Colorado, Nelson at University of Southern California, Posner at The University of Chicago, and Edwards at University of Michigan and at Harvard. The dramatic reduction may indicate a change in the path from the academy to the bench. ), Justice John Paul Stevens (retired) Among the current justices with the most academic former clerks (Breyer, Thomas, Sotomayor), two are Democratic appointees and Breyer has more than twice the number as Thomas in three fewer years on the Court. Being a Judge X Clerk or Justice Y Clerk, perhaps with a strong recommendation from the jurist, helps secure an academic position. [2] Supreme Court clerkships are highly prized and the most difficult to secure in the American clerking landscapethey have been called the "brass ring of law clerk fame"[3] and the "ultimate achievement. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan. 2023 Breaking Media, Inc. All rights reserved. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. 3. Recent appointees have fewer former clerks and less time for those former clerks to complete the multi-year path from clerkship to law faculty, meaning fewer opportunities to produce academic former clerks. And none of those 18 remains in active service. Sixty of the top 102 judges with eight or more former clerks in teaching are Democratic appointees. While I occasionally describe judges as producing or placing academics, it is shorthand to connect the judge to her former clerks and the law professor to her former judge. WebDistrict Judge Christopher R. Cooper. This study performed 25 years ago would have produced different results; this study repeated 25 years hence will produce different results. Feeder v. The State of Nevada et al. President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated two judges serving in Chicago-based federal courtrooms to be elevated to fill district court vacancies in the Northern District of Illinois. From that, I focus on a top group of 102 judges with at least eight academic former clerks. 3. ? (Please let us know of any errors you notice. (tie) Richard J. Sullivan (S.D.N.Y. Circuit, senior judge), and Patricia Wald (D.C. Feeder judges are able to place comparatively many of their clerks on the Supreme Court for a variety of reasons, including personal or ideological relationships Lohier (Obama appointee to the Second Circuit in 2010) and Elrod (George W. Bush appointee to the Fifth Circuit in 2007) are close in age and were appointed three years apart. LexisNexis Fact & Issue Finder combines AI and human-assisted search to provide digestible, thorough results. The circuits represented expands going down the list of judges. Both attract high-achieving law students from top law schools. Some court of appeals judges prefer prior clerking experience, hiring their clerks from current trial-court clerkships rather than from law school. Elena Kagan, a former professor at University of Chicago and dean at Harvard, appointed in 2010, has the same number of academic former clerks as Roberts and Alito. And a state judge who develops such a reputation may find herself appointed to the federal bench, from which her clerks can follow the easier and more common path to the legal academy. District Judge Randolph D. Moss. Ninety-one of the 102 served on the courts of appeals. In the 2013 hiring cycle alone, there were 15 CADC clerks, 6 CA9 clerks, and 5 CA4 clerks. Teresa Reed (Stanford 2015 / Millett). For example, prior to his 2003 appointment to the Ninth Circuit, Bybee worked in the executive branch for both Presidents Bush, including as head of the Office of Legal Counsel for George W. Bush.21 Sixteen judges in this group are women, three are African American, and two are Hispanic. If, post-2008, 75 candidates get new teaching jobs each year rather than 160, the relative prestige of an appellate clerkship may explain schools hiring former appellate clerks, with no positions remaining for former district-court clerks. Circuit and four are from the Ninth Circuit (including my former boss, the fabulous Judge Diarmuid F. OScannlain). Lawrence J. Vilardo. Thirty-four states have adopted the Uniform Bar Examination. This created a network effect in which certain appellate judges became known for placing clerks with the justices, increasing the number of law students applying to clerk for those feeder judges with the hope of securing a subsequent clerkship on the High Court.2During the Rehnquist Court (19862004), ten lower-court judges placed more than 20 clerks, with a second-tier of 16 judges placing eight or more.3From 2004 (one year prior to the start of the Roberts Court) through 2018, 11 lower-court judges produced 20 or more Supreme Court clerks and another 20 lower-court judges produced eight or more Supreme Court clerks.4. President Joe Biden departs the White House on Jan. 13, 2023, in Washington, DC. Of the 13 judges on last years list prepared by Justice David Stras of the Minnesota Supreme Court, himself a former SCOTUS clerk five of the judges are from the D.C. Both demand people personally and financially able to relocate for short-term jobs, perhaps multiple times. 201 West Market Street, Suite 4100 West Chester, PA 19380 Ph: 610-344-6173 Fx: 610-344-6522 Both tables(see appendix) show the breakdown by theU.S. Newsrankings of the law schools at which former clerks teach. Mineral County: 3 percent. WebCir. Elizabeth A. Wolford, Chief United States District Judge. That skew is becoming more pronounced. The most recent appointee on the list is Raymond Lohier (Second Circuit), a 2010 Obama appointee, with four academic former clerks. State courts focus on state law; law school curricula less so. Dean Ken Randall spearheads the schools charge towards interdisciplinary, inclusive degree opportunities. 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Eighteen of the judges in Table 1 retain active status, including nine judges with 11 or more academic former clerks; their numbers and their positions on this list should rise over the coming decades. 329 Mast Road. Click here to download this articles accompanying appendix.. 450 Main Street Suite A012 Hartford, CT 06103 860-240-3200 | Clerk's Office 860-240-3211 | Fax. But most judges on the list have approximately half of their academic former clerks within the top-50 schools and a substantial majority within the top-100 schools, reflecting the value of the clerkship, especially a federal appellate clerkship, as an academic credential. Clerkships launch former clerks into other legal positions (including government, private practice, and further clerkships) and short-term pre-tenure teaching positions (such as fellowships and Visiting Assistant Professorships5) that provide further experience and credentials for a permanent teaching job. Circuit is regarded as the junior Supreme Court and the most prestigious circuit,15from which we would expect legal academics to emerge. This top group includes 22 women, five African Americans, and two Hispanics. The partisan skew is more noticeable with district judges. The lower-court judges identified as academic feeders overlap with the lower-court judges recognized as SCOTUS feeders. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images / via CNN) (CNN) President Joe Biden plans to nominate four people to federal judge positions on Wednesday, including a red state district court nominee who has the required support of their states Republican In a similar vein, if this study is repeated in 2055, far fewer former Calabresi, Posner, or Wald clerks will remain on law faculties. District Judges Chief Judge Robert J. Shelby: Senior Judge Bruce S. Jenkins Judge Jill N. Parrish: Senior Judge David Sam Judge Howard C. Nielson, Jr. Senior Judge Tena Campbell Figures 46 illustrate biographical information for these 51 district judges. Of the 52 judges appointed since 1995 (Part III and Table 3) with three or more clerks, ten joined the federal bench from the state bench. Late-Clinton appointees have served longer than Bush appointees, offering more time for former clerks to land teaching jobs. WebAppointed Ninth Judicial District Court Judge, Division I, by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, 2021. Supreme Ambitions [Amazon (affiliate link)], Earlier: A New Trend Among Supreme Court Clerks?Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Who Is NOT Retiring From SCOTUS?Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Shout-Outs From Justice Kagan, And The Leading Feeder FirmPrior ATL coverage of Supreme Court law clerks, Allison Eid, Allison H. Eid, Charles Breyer, Charles R. Breyer, Chuck Breyer, Clerks, Clerkships, Daniel Winfree, Denise Cote, Douglas P. 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