Law Schools Play Prominently in Trump's Judicial Nominations
The legal academy is well represented in President Donald Trump's initial slate of federal judicial nominees, unveiled Monday.
May 08, 2017 at 04:05 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
The legal academy is well represented in President Donald Trump's initial slate of federal judicial nominees, unveiled Monday.
Two of the 10 nominees to the lower federal courts are current law faculty members. Amy Coney Barrett, nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, has been a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School since 2002 and graduated from the South Bend, Indiana, law school at the top of her class in 1997. Scott Palk is currently the assistant dean of students at his alma mater the University of Oklahoma College of Law, and was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Two more of the recent nominees have strong law school ties. David Stras was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School from 2004 to 2010 before joining the Minnesota Supreme Court. Trump nominated Stras to the Eight Circuit.
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