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Congratulations To The 2014 Bristow Fellows

Which law schools and lower-court judges send the most people into prestigious Bristow Fellowships at the U.S. Solicitor General's Office?

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Here are the five most recent classes of Bristow Fellows (21 20 Fellows in total):

2014 – 2015

Z. Payvand Ahdout (Columbia / Livingston)
Galen Bascom (UVA / Garland)
Samuel Harbourt (Harvard / Garland)
Jonathan Meltzer (Yale / Wilkinson)

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. Interestingly enough, until this latest batch of Bristows, Columbia and Harvard hadn’t had any in a while.

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

And here are the lower-court judges who sent clerks into Bristow Fellowships over the past five years (note that some Fellows clerked for more than one judge). By placing two of his clerks into Bristows for OT 2014, Judge Garland has tied Judge Wilkinson at the top of the ranking.

Garland – 3
Wilkinson – 3
Kethledge – 2
Sutton – 2
Tatel – 2
Berzon
Boudin
C. Breyer
Feinerman
W. Fletcher
Gorsuch
E. Jones
Kavanaugh
Livingston
Niemeyer
Randolph
Thapar
M. Thompson

If you see any errors in the listings above, please let us know.

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Congratulations once again to the Bristow Fellows, their law schools, and their judges. Your holidays will be very happy indeed!

Earlier: Congratulations to the 2013 Bristow Fellows
Congratulations to the 2012 Bristow Fellows
Congratulations to the 2011 Bristow Fellows
Congratulations to the 2010 Bristow Fellows

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