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Michael W. McConnell

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2002

Michael W. McConnell , Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Michael William McConnell (born May 18, 1955) is an American jurist and legal scholar who served as a United States circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 to 2009. Since 2009, McConnell has been a professor and Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School.

Education

  • Michigan State UniversityB.A., 1976
  • University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D., 1979

Career

Law clerk, Hon. J. Skelly Wright, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1979-1980; Law clerk, Hon. William J. Brennan, Jr., Supreme Court of the United States, 1980-1981; Assistant general counsel, Office of Management and Budget, 1981-1983; Assistant to the solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1983-1985; Professor, University of Chicago Law School, 1985-1996; Professor, S.J. Quinney College of Law of the University of Utah, 1997-2002; Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center, 2009-

Biography

Michael William McConnell (born May 18, 1955) is an American jurist and legal scholar who served as a United States circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 to 2009. Since 2009, McConnell has been a professor and Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School.

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