The Appellate Lawyers Association welcomes newly confirmed Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett as an esteemed new member of the organization. Judge Barrett has been a professor at Notre Dame Law School, where she teaches and researches in the areas of federal courts, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation, and practiced law at Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C.  She served as a law clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court and for Judge Laurence Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Notre Dame Law School and her undergraduate degree from Rhodes College.