The Senate Judiciary Committee will conduct confirmation hearings this week for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. The 48-year-old federal judge is expected to take tough questions from Democrats, who fear her confirmation would cement a decades-long conservative era for the court.
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AMY CONEY BARRETT ~ SNAPSHOT BIOGRAPHY
Amy Coney Barrett (age 48) currently serves as judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. She was nominated to that post by President Trump in 2017, and has since demonstrated herself to be a clear-cut conservative.Barret attended Rhodes College, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1994. She went on to attend Notre Dame Law School, where she graduated first in her class in 1997, earning a Jurist Doctor degree.
Post college, Barrett spent time as a judicial law clerk, with a term under Justice Antonin Scalia at the U.S. Supreme Court. She then went on to practice law at a boutique Washington law firm. There, she notably worked on the firm’s representation of George W. Bush in the Bush V. Gore lawsuit that stemmed from the 2000 presidential election.
Barret has taught law at several prestigious universities, including terms at George Washington University Law School, Notre Dame Law School, and the University of Virginia Law School.
Born in Louisiana, Barrett now lives in South Bend, Indiana with her husband Jesse and their seven children, two of whom were adopted from Haiti. She is a devout catholic, and has served in both leadership and support roles in the People of Praise parachurch community.
if confirmed, Barrett would become the youngest member of the Supreme Court and the first ever to have school-aged children at home.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett delivers remarks on Saturday, September 26 in the White House Rose Garden after her nomination to the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump.