Victoria F. Nourse

Victoria Frances Nourse (born November 9, 1958) is a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is also the executive director of the center on congressional studies at Georgetown Law. She was a nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Her nomination was returned to the president on December 17, 2011, pursuant to the rules of the Senate.

Nourse was born in Dunedin, Florida and received her Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1980 and later received her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1984.

Nourse's first employment was as a waitress at Cafe Meursault in Palo Alto, California in 1980. From 1980 through 1981 she worked for the Center for the Study of the California Economy as a research assistant. In 1982, Nourse took a position as a summer associate with the firm of Dorr, Cooper & Hays in San Francisco. In 1983 she worked for Steptoe & Johnson as a summer associate in Washington, D.C. Her summer associate position in 1984 was with the law firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett in New York City, New York.

After graduating from law school, Nourse clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1984 and 1985. During 1985 to 1987 and the winter of 1988, she worked in for the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In 1987 she worked as an assistant counsel on the United States Senate Committee to Investigate the Iran-Contra Affair.

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