Here are the eight most recent classes of Bristow Fellows (32 Fellows in total):
2017 – 2018
Jo-Ann Karhson (Harvard / K.B. Jackson (D.D.C.) / Kavanaugh)
Michael Qian (Stanford / Garland)
Reema Shah (Yale / Srinivasan)
Maggie Upshaw (Chicago / Fletcher)
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2016 – 2017
Julie Karaba (Northwestern / Kavanaugh / Feinerman (N.D. Ill.))
Chelsea Priest (Stanford / Garland)
Joseph Schroeder (U. Chicago / Wilkinson)
Jack Starcher (Columbia / Furman (S.D.N.Y.) / Srinivasan)
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.))
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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):
Chicago – 4
Columbia – 3
Northwestern – 3
Stanford – 4
UVA – 3
Yale – 4
Berkeley – 2
Harvard – 3
Penn – 2
Duke
Georgetown
LSU
Notre Dame
And here are the lower-court judges who sent clerks into Bristow Fellowships over this period (note that some Fellows clerked for more than one judge):
Garland – 5
Wilkinson – 5
W. Fletcher – 3
Kavanaugh – 3
Feinerman (N.D. Ill.) – 2
Kethledge – 2
Srinivasan – 2
Sutton – 2
Tatel – 2
Berzon
Chhabria (N.D. Cal.)
Cote (S.D.N.Y.)
Furman (S.D.N.Y.)
Gorsuch
K.B. Jackson (D.D.C.)
E. Jones
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!
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David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].