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Michael W. McConnell (born in Louisville, Kentucky, 1955) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, having been nominated by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2001, and confirmed by the United States Senate on November 15, 2002.
McConnell graduated from Michigan State University in 1976. McConnell receivied his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1979. He was a law clerk for James Skelly Wright, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1979-1980, and for Associate Justice William Brennan, Supreme Court of the United States, 1980-1981. He was an assistant general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget, 1981-1983, and an assistant to the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1983-1985. He was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, 1985-1996, and then at the University of Utah College of Law, 1997-2002.
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A selection of McConnell's essays for the Wall Street Journal
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Categories: 1955 births | Judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Edith Hollan Jones (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1949) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Jones graduated from Cornell University in 1971. She received her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1974. She was in private practice in Houston, Texas from 1974 until 1985, working for the firm of Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, where she became the firm's first female partner. She specialized in bankruptcy law. She also served as General Counsel for the Republican Party of Texas from 1982-83.
She was nominated to the Fifth Circuit by President Ronald Reagan on February 27, 1985, and confirmed by the United States Senate on April 3, 1985. She received her commission on April 4, 1985, at the age of 36.
She sits on the board of directors of the Boy Scouts of America, the Garland Walker American Inns of Court, and is a member of several American Bar Association committees.
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