The Federal Society occupies the
unprecedented position of being the sole source for suggesting Supreme Court
nominees to President Trump. Joan Larsen is on that list. She is currently a
judge on the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Before that, she served on
the Michigan Supreme Court.
The knock against her is inexperience—she was
elevated to the Michigan Supreme Court in 2015 and only very recently took her
position on the appeals court.
This is her bio on the Federalist
Society website. Judge for yourself.
Justice Joan L. Larsen was named to
the Michigan Supreme Court on September 30, 2015, by Governor Rick Snyder.
Before assuming office, Justice
Larsen served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School where she
was also special counsel to the dean. An award-winning legal scholar, Justice
Larsen taught for more than a decade at the University of Michigan where she
received the L. Hart Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching. She continues to assist the law school as the
adviser to the Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition.
Justice Larsen graduated first in her class
from Northwestern University School of Law, where she served as articles editor
of the Northwestern University Law Review. At Northwestern, she earned the John
Paul Stevens Award for Academic Excellence, the Lowden-Wigmore Prize for the
best student note published in the Law Review, and the Raoul Berger Prize for
the best senior research paper.
After graduation, Justice Larsen clerked for
the Hon. David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. Following her
clerkships, she joined Sidley & Austin's Washington, D.C., office, where
she was a member of the Constitutional, Criminal, and Civil Litigation Section.
Before coming to Michigan in 1998, she was a
visiting assistant professor at Northwestern.
She later served as deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S.
Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, where she provided advice to the
White House, the attorney general, and government agencies regarding
constitutional and statutory law.
While at the University of Michigan Law
School, Justice Larsen's research and teaching interests included
constitutional law, criminal procedure, statutory interpretation and
presidential power.
Justice Larsen is married to Adam Pritchard, a
professor at the University of Michigan Law School. They live in Scio Township and have two
children who attend Dexter Community Schools.
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