Michael W. McConnell
| Michael McConnell | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit | |
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In office November 26, 2002 – August 31, 2009 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Stephen Anderson |
| Succeeded by | Scott Matheson |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 18, 1955 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Michigan State University University of Chicago |
Michael William McConnell (born May 18, 1955 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a constitutional law scholar who served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 until 2009. Since 2009, McConnell has served as Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. He is also a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and of Counsel to the Litigation Practice Group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
McConnell graduated from Michigan State University's James Madison College in 1976. McConnell received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1979, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He was a law clerk for James Skelly Wright, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1979 to 1980 and for Associate Justice William Brennan, Supreme Court of the United States from 1980 to 1981. He was an assistant general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget, 1981–1983, and an assistant to the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice from 1983 to 1985. McConnell was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1985 to 1996, where he brought Barack Obama on a fellowship after being impressed with a suggestion Obama, the Harvard Law Review president, had made on one of McConnell's articles. McConnell has been professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, as well as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and at the New York University School of Law.
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