Williams & Connolly Partner, Up for 4th Circ., Discloses $650,000 Income
Allison Jones Rushing would be one of President Donald Trump's youngest judges if confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
October 16, 2018 at 06:59 PM
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Allison Jones Rushing, President Donald Trump's nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, earned over $650,000 as a Williams & Connolly partner in 2017, jumping to over twice the $317,000 she made as an associate the year before.
Those figures, which offer a rare glimpse into the firm's salaries, are found in Rushing's financial disclosure form for the January 2017 to August 2018 reporting period. The form, which Rushing submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of the judicial nomination process, was obtained by The National Law Journal on Tuesday.
Rushing is set to field questions from senators during her confirmation hearing Wednesday, which comes less than two months after Trump announced her nomination in late August. According to Rushing's Senate questionnaire, lawyers from the White House Counsel's Office contacted her in mid-June about an interview for the Fourth Circuit seat. She was promptly interviewed by the White House and Justice Department, and learned on June 29 that she would be nominated to fill the vacancy.
If confirmed, Rushing is poised to be one of the youngest judges on the federal bench. Born in 1982 in North Carolina, she earned her law degree from Duke University School of Law in 2007, and her undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University in 2004.
Rushing has spent much of her career at Williams & Connolly, working there as an associate from 2009 to 2010, and then 2011 to 2016. She became a partner at the firm in January 2017, focusing on appellate matters before the Supreme Court and federal appeals courts, and working with Kannon Shanmugam, the head of the firm's Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice. Rushing, who holds no previous judicial experience, was also a summer associate at the firm in 2006.
In her Senate questionnaire, she identified her client list as ranging from “public and private companies, law firms and accounting firms, trade associations” to private individuals. She also noted pro bono work for individuals in criminal cases. In addition to her income for the years 2016 and 2017, Rushing's financial disclosure form shows her net worth is over $1.9 million.
It also showed Rushing received about $1,750 in honoraria from the conservative Christian nonprofit organization Alliance Defending Freedom in 2017. Her questionnaire shows she spoke on a panel for the group, addressing law students and lawyers outside D.C., in August 2017. She had previously spent a summer working for the organization, then called the Alliance Defense Fund, in Scottsdale, Arizona, where it's headquartered.
In her questionnaire, she identified herself as a co-speaker for an October 2013 event at the Capitol Hill Baptist Church in D.C., titled “Henry Forum: 'Enemies of Mankind': Religion and Morality in the Supreme Court's Same-Sex Marriage Jurisprudence.”
Rushing previously clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas between 2010 to 2011, and also clerked for then-Judge Neil Gorsuch on the Tenth Circuit from 2007 to 2008, and the D.C. Circuit's David Sentelle the year after. Sentelle was then chief judge of the appeals court.
Rushing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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