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Congratulations To The 2013 Bristow Fellows

Who are the five brilliant young lawyers just selected for Bristow Fellowships at the U.S. Solicitor General's Office? And which law schools and lower-court judges have produced the most Bristows over the past few years?

By David Lat

onNovember 20, 2012 at 3:15 PMDecember 19, 2013 at 6:38 AM

Here are the four most recent classes of Bristow Fellows (17 Fellows in total; three classes of four Fellows each, plus the latest class of five Fellows):

2013 – 2014

Sarah Boyce (Duke / Sutton)
Travis Crum (Yale / Thompson / Tatel)
Elana Nightingale Dawson (Northwestern / Feinerman / Kethledge)
~~Will Edelman (Stanford / Boudin / C. Breyer)~~
Ryan Snyder (Notre Dame / Kethledge)

2012 – 2013

Brinton Lucas (UVA / Wilkinson)
Daniel Taylor (Georgetown / Thapar / Sutton)
Julia Malkina (Yale / Kavanaugh)
Jonathan Shaub (Northwestern / Niemeyer)

2011-2012

Martine Cicconi (Stanford / Garland)
Jonathan Ellis (Penn / Randolph)
Nicole Ries (Berkeley / W. Fletcher)
Eric Tung (Chicago / Gorsuch)

2010-2011

Matthew Nicholson (UVA / Wilkinson)
Erica Ross (Stanford / Tatel Tot)
Michele Shamblin (LSU / E. Jones)
Gerry Sinzdak (UC Berkeley / Berzon)

Here are the law schools from which they graduated:

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Berkeley – 2
Northwestern -2
Stanford – 3 2
UVA – 2
Yale – 2
Chicago
Duke
Georgetown
LSU
Notre Dame
Penn

And here are the lower-court judges who sent clerks into Bristow Fellowships over the past four years (note that some Fellows clerked for more than one judge):

Wilkinson – 2
Berzon
~~Boudin~~
~~C. Breyer~~
Feinerman
W. Fletcher
Garland
Gorsuch
E. Jones
Kavanaugh
Kethledge – 2
Niemeyer
Randolph
Sutton – 2
Tatel -2
Thapar
M. Thompson