My introduction to Judge Abner Mikva was a pure fortuity. Late in my second year of law school, I learned that Skelly Wright, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit with whom I had accepted a clerkship, had elected to take senior status. Suddenly without a postgraduation job, I lamented my predicament to the law firm partner who was supervising my research assignment that summer.
Luckily for me, that partner happened to be a young Merrick Garland. Garland, later a judge and now chief judge serving in the same seat of the very same court, promptly picked up the phone and called Judge Mikva. I did not know it at the time, but Garland had volunteered for then-Congressman Mikva while in college, and based on that second stroke of luck, Judge Mikva interviewed me and offered me a clerkship.
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