Clerkships

Congratulations To The 2015 Bristow Fellows

Which law schools and lower-court judges send the most people into prestigious Bristow Fellowships?

Here are the six most recent classes of Bristow Fellows (24 Fellows in total):

2015 – 2016

Lena Hughes (Columbia / Cote (S.D.N.Y.) / Lynch)
Laura Myron (Harvard / Wilkinson)
Parker Rider-Longmaid (Penn / Scirica / Pratter (E.D. Pa.))
Evan Rose (U. Chicago / W. Fletcher / Chhabria (N.D. Cal.))

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 (N.D. Ill.) / Kethledge)
Ryan Snyder (Notre Dame / Kethledge)

2012 – 2013

Brinton Lucas (UVA / Wilkinson)
Daniel Taylor (Georgetown / Thapar (E.D. Ky.) / 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, dominated by top-14 law schools (but with cameos from LSU and Notre Dame):

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

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

Wilkinson – 4
W. Fletcher – 2
Garland – 3
Kethledge – 2
Sutton – 2
Tatel – 2
Berzon
Chhabria (N.D. Cal.)
Cote (S.D.N.Y.)
Feinerman (N.D. Ill.)
Gorsuch
E. Jones
Kavanaugh
Livingston
G. Lynch
Niemeyer
Pratter (E.D. Pa.)
Randolph
Scirica
Thapar (E.D. Ky.)
M. Thompson (M.D. Ala.)

If you see any errors in the listings above, please let us know. Congratulations once again to the Bristow Fellows, their law schools, and their judges!

Earlier: Congratulations To The 2014 Bristow Fellows
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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