Here are the 10 most recent classes of Bristow Fellows (42 Fellows in total):
2020 – 2021
Nicola Cohen (Columbia 2018 / Owens / Abrams (S.D.N.Y.))
Kyle Grigel (Stanford 2019 / Sutton)
Aaron Roper (Yale 2019 / Garland)
Yishai Schwartz (Yale 2018 / Cabranes / Karas (S.D.N.Y))
John Henry Thompson (Chicago 2018 / Sykes / Griffith)
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2019 – 2020
Josh Halpern (Harvard 2017 / Smith / Millett)
Sean Janda (Stanford 2017 / Brinkema (E.D. Va.) / Srinivasan)
McKaye Neumeister (Yale 2017 / Srinivasan / Oetken (S.D.N.Y.))
John Ramer (Michigan 2017 / Kethledge)
Daniel Richardson (UVA 2018 / Wilkinson)
2018 – 2019
Meg Braun (Yale 2016 / Brinkema (E.D. Va.) / Katzmann)
Hunter Bruton (Duke 2016 / Duncan / Huvelle (D.D.C.))
Steve Lindsay (Yale 2017 / Griffith)
Adam Sorensen (UVA 2017 / Wilkinson)
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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)
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.))
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)
Here are the law schools from which they graduated:
Yale – 9
Chicago – 5
Stanford – 5
Harvard – 4
UVA – 4
Columbia – 4
Northwestern – 3
Duke – 2
Penn – 2
Berkeley
Georgetown
Michigan
Notre Dame
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):
Wilkinson – 6
Garland – 6
Srinivasan – 4
W. Fletcher – 3
Kavanaugh – 3
Kethledge – 3
Sutton – 3
Griffith – 2
Brinkema (E.D. Va.) – 2
Feinerman (N.D. Ill.) – 2
Cabranes
Duncan
Gorsuch
Katzmann
Livingston
G. Lynch
Millett
Niemeyer
Owens
Randolph
Scirica
J. Smith
Sykes
Tatel
Abrams (S.D.N.Y.)
Chhabria (N.D. Cal.)
Cote (S.D.N.Y.)
Furman (S.D.N.Y.)
Huvelle (D.D.C.)
K.B. Jackson (D.D.C.)
Karas (S.D.N.Y.)
Oetken (S.D.N.Y.)
Pratter (E.D. Pa.)
Thapar (E.D. Ky.)
M. Thompson (M.D. Ala.)
If you see any errors in the listings above, please let me know. Congratulations once again to the Bristow Fellows, their law schools, and their judges.
Earlier:
- Congratulations To The 2019 Bristow Fellows
- Congratulations To The 2018 Bristow Fellows
- Congratulations To The 2017 Bristow Fellows
- Congratulations To The 2016 Bristow Fellows
- Congratulations To The 2015 Bristow Fellows
- 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
David Lat, the founding editor of Above the Law, is a writer, speaker, and legal recruiter at Lateral Link, where he is a managing director in the New York office. David’s book, Supreme Ambitions: A Novel (2014), was described by the New York Times as “the most buzzed-about novel of the year” among legal elites. David previously worked as a federal prosecutor, a litigation associate at Wachtell Lipton, 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].