Congratulations To The 2021 Bristow Fellows

Here are the law schools that have produced the most Bristow Fellows over the past 10 years (OT 2012 to OT 2021):

Yale – 10
Columbia – 5
UVA – 5
Stanford – 5
Chicago – 4
Harvard – 4
Northwestern – 3
Duke – 3
Georgetown
Michigan
Penn
Notre Dame

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

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Wilkinson – 6
Garland – 5
Srinivasan – 5
Kavanaugh – 3
Kethledge – 3
Sutton – 3
Feinerman (N.D. Ill.) – 3
W. Fletcher – 2
Griffith – 2
Thapar – 2
Brinkema (E.D. Va.) – 2
Oetken (S.D.N.Y.) – 2
Bibas
Cabranes
Duncan
Katzmann
Livingston
Lohier
G. Lynch
Millett
Niemeyer
Owens
Scirica
J. Smith
Stras
Sykes
Tatel
Willett
Abrams (S.D.N.Y.)
Chhabria (N.D. Cal.)
Cote (S.D.N.Y.)
Furman (S.D.N.Y.)
Hayes (S.D. Cal.)
Huvelle (D.D.C.)
K.B. Jackson (D.D.C.)
Karas (S.D.N.Y.)
Moss (D.D.C.)
Pratter (E.D. Pa.)
M. Thompson (M.D. Ala.)

Finally, here are the 10 most recent classes of Bristow Fellows (43 Fellows in total):

2021 – 2022

Samir Doshi (Yale 2018 / Lohier / Moss (D.D.C.))
Abigail Frisch (Duke 2018 / Hayes (S.D. Cal.) / Willett)
David Goldman (UVA 2019 / Stras / Thapar)
Eve Levin (Columbia 2018 / Srinivasan / Oetken (S.D.N.Y.))
Yoni Marshall (Stanford 2019 / Bibas / Feinerman (N.D. Ill.))

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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)

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)

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)

If you see any errors in the listings above, please email me ([email protected]). Thanks!

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