Amy Coney Barrett
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Amy Coney Barrett (born 1972) is a United States Circuit Judge on the Seventh Circuit of the United States Circuit Judge.
She is also a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law at George Washington University Law School.
Early life and education
Amy Vivian Coney was born in 1972 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Linda (née Valiant) and Michael Coney. She is the eldest of seven children and has five sisters and a brother. Her father was an advocate for Shell Oil Company, and her mother, a high school French teacher and homemaker, was an executive at Shell Oil Company. Barrett has ancestry both Irish and French. Her maternal ancestors were from Ballyconnell, Ireland, although her father's ancestors have an Irish lineage, although there is also Irish lineage among her father's ancestors. Her great-grandparents immigrated from France to New Orleans. Her family is devoutly Catholic, and her father is an ordained deacon at St. Catherine of Siena, Louisiana, where she grew up.
Barrett attended Dominican High School in New Orleans, an all-girls Roman Catholic high school. She was the school's student body vice president when she first enrolled in 1990 and graduated in 1990. Barrett majored in English literature and minored in French after high school, where she stayed at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, where she majored in English literature and minored in French. She says she is "somewhat fluent" in French, but with a Louisiana accent. Barrett earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1994 and was accepted into Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa. She was voted the most outstanding English department graduate in her graduating class.
Barrett received a full-tuition scholarship at Notre Dame Law School. She served as an executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review and graduated in 1997 with a Juris Doctor summa cum laude.
Personal life
Jesse M. Barrett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School and a law professor at Notre Dame Law School, married Barrett in 1999. Jesse Barrett served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana for 13 years. The couple live in South Bend and have seven children, two of whom were adopted from Haiti in 2005 and another after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Down syndrome is the youngest biological child in the United States.
Barrett is a practicing Catholic. She has been a member of the Christian orthodox church community People of Praise, an ecumenical covenant congregation founded in South Bend since birth. Around 90% of the Catholic Church's nearly 1,700 members are Catholic, despite being associated with the Catholic charismatic revival movement but not officially affiliated with the Catholic Church. Barrett has been a laypastoral women's leader in People of Praise, a position once referred to as "handmaiden" but now described as "women boss" in People of Praise.
Barrett voted in the 2016 and 2018 general and 2018 Republican primaries, as well as a GOP primary in the 2011 primary, according to Politico.
Legal career
After law school, Barrett served as a judge in the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 1998, then for Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court from 1998 to 1999.
Barrett practiced law at Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin, a boutique law firm for litigation in Washington, D.C., which joined with Houston, Texas-based law firm Baker Botts in 2001. She worked at Baker Botts on Bush vs. Gore, the lawsuit that resulted from the 2000 United States presidential election, providing analysis and briefing services for the firm's George W. Bush representation.
Barrett was a visiting associate professor and John M. Olin Fellow in Law at George Washington University Law School in 2001. She joined Notre Dame Law School, her alma mater, in 2002. She taught federal courts, evidence, constitutional law, and legislative interpretation at Notre Dame. In 2007, she was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. Barrett was named a professor of law at Notre Dame in 2010, and Diane and M.O. followed Notre Dame from 2014 to 2017. Miller II is a professor of law. Her scholarship mainly concentrated on constitutional law, originalism, legislative interpretation, and stare decisis. Her academic work has appeared in the Columbia, Cornell, Virginia, Notre Dame, and Texas law journals.
Barrett received the "Distinguished Professor of the Year" award three times at Notre Dame. She wrote about constitutional law at Blackstone Legal Fellowship, a summer program for law school students, in order to encourage a "distinctly Christian worldview in every area of law." Barrett commuted between Chicago and South Bend, teaching courses on statutory interpretation and constitutional theory while on the Seventh Circuit.
Chief Justice John Roberts named Barrett to serve on the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in 2010.