Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Amy Vivian Coney Barrett was born in January 1972 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned an undergraduate degree in English literature and French from Rhodes College, and received her Juris Doctor from the Notre Dame Law School. She spent two years as a law clerk, first at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. She entered the private practice of law.
She was a visiting associate professor at George Washington University Law School and a professor at Notre Dame Law School. Later she was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. She was appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.
She was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, a position she held for three years. President Trump later appointed her to serve as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. She was confirmed by the Senate and took her seat on the high court bench in October 2020.
She is married to Jesse Barrett and they have seven children. The family is Catholic.
In the News…
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in NRSC v. FEC regarding the constitutionality of campaign spending restrictions Congress has put in place. The case alleges that these limits are a violation of free speech under the First Amendment.
Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett raised the question of who benefits from the restrictions, saying, “Normally, regulated parties are happy to get rid of regulation and, obviously, this ties the [Democratic National Committee’s] hands just as much as it ties the [Republican National Committee’s] hands.”
“If the parties have long been aligned on this, why change the position?” Justice Barrett asked. “If there isn’t an imbalance in who this benefits, why would the DNC be here? Why would your client be here if it didn’t perceive this to be something that would benefit the RNC more than the DNC?”
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The Honorable Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Supreme Court of the United States
1 First Street NE
Washington, DC 20543
