On March 12, 2026, the Law Library of Congress and the Supreme Court Fellows Program presented a conversation with Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett as the Annual Lecture for the Supreme Court Fellows Program. Aslihan Bulut, Law Librarian of Congress, introduced the event, and Robert M. Dow Jr., Counselor to Chief Justice John Roberts and Executive Director of the Supreme Court Fellows Program, served as moderator. A recording of the program is available online.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Background
Amy Coney Barrett, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 28, 1972. She married Jesse M. Barrett in 1999 and has seven children. Barrett earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rhodes College in 1994 and a Juris Doctor degree from Notre Dame Law School in 1997.
Following law school, she served as a law clerk for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1997 to 1998, and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court during the 1998 term. After two years in private law practice in Washington, D.C., she joined the faculty of Notre Dame Law School as a law professor in 2002. In 2017, she was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. President Donald J. Trump nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she assumed her position on October 27, 2020.
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