FedSoc Presents: Judge Newsom

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Add to Calendar 2022-01-27 12:15:00 2022-01-27 13:20:00 FedSoc Presents: Judge Newsom Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/fedsoc-presents-judge-newsom - University of Chicago Law School blog@law.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
Room F
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Open to the Law School community
Presenting student organizations: Federalist Society

The Honorable Kevin C. Newsom is a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Newsom was the head of the appellate practice group at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and, before that, the Solicitor General of Alabama. As a practicing lawyer, Judge Newsom argued four cases in the Supreme Court of the United States and nearly 40 more in the United States Courts of Appeals and state supreme and appellate courts. Judge Newsom graduated summa cum laude from Samford University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an articles editor on the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, Judge Newsom clerked for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the United States Supreme Court.

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