Adam Mortara graduated from the College in 1996 with a B.Sc. in chemistry. He then attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he received a masters degree in astrophysics on a British Marshall Scholarship. Mr. Mortara graduated from the Law School with highest honors in 2001. Following graduation, he clerked for Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and then for Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States. After his clerkships, he was a Temple Bar Scholar of the American Inns of Court. Mr. Mortara is a partner at Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP.

Bryan Sells served as Special Litigation Counsel in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice from 2010 to 2015. Before joining the Department of Justice, he was a Senior Staff Attorney in the Voting Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union in Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked with voting-rights legend Laughlin McDonald for more than 10 years. He was the lead attorney in Quiver v. Nelson, one of the largest voting-rights cases in history, and in Bone Shirt v. Hazeltine, a landmark case challenging South Dakota’s statewide redistricting plan on behalf of Native American voters. He began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Myron H. Thompson of the United States District Court in Montgomery, Alabama. Bryan has degrees from Harvard University and Columbia Law School.