Kathleen Sullivan
| Kathleen Sullivan | |
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| 11th Dean of Stanford Law School | |
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In office 1999–2004 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Brest |
| Succeeded by | Larry Kramer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Kathleen Marie Sullivan August 20, 1955 Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Cornell University Wadham College, Oxford Harvard University |
Kathleen Marie Sullivan (born August 20, 1955) is an American lawyer and name partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, a global, litigation-only white shoe law firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Based in the firm's New York City office, Sullivan chairs its national appellate practice group. She is the first and only woman name partner at an Am Law 100 law firm. Previously, Sullivan served as Dean of Stanford Law School, where she was the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law.
Born in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan and raised on Long Island, New York, Sullivan graduated from Cold Spring Harbor High School in 1972. She participated in the Telluride Association Summer Program during high school, then attended Cornell University where she was a member of the Telluride House, and graduated in 1976. She then became a Marshall Scholar at Wadham College, Oxford, and graduated in 1978.
Sullivan returned to the United States to attend Harvard Law School. Professor Laurence Tribe called her, at the time, "the most extraordinary student I had ever had." During law school, Sullivan worked as a research assistant to Tribe and assisted him with his Supreme Court appeals. After graduating from Harvard law school in 1981, Sullivan served one year as a judicial law clerk to Judge James L. Oakes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following her clerkship, Sullivan elected against joining a large law firm, and instead returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts as a litigation associate in Professor Tribe's private appellate practice.
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