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Udicial Clerkship Institute Bankruptcy and Career Clerk Breakouts Available THE WM. MAttHEW BYRNE, JR., J udicial Clerkship Institute For Current Clerks, Law Students, and Graduates Entering Federal Clerkships MARCH 14-15, 2013 MALIBU, CALIFORNIA M essage from the Director J udicial Faculty We are excited to invite you to join Arthur L. Alarcón United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Pepperdine’s 13th annual Wm. Matthew Judge Alarcón was appointed United States circuit Byrne Jr., Judicial Clerkship Institute, a judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on program dedicated to the promotion of November 2, 1979, and entered duty on November 20, 1979. He is a graduate of the University of Southern justice and the federal judiciary through California, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1949, an the training of law clerks. Federal judges LLB degree in 1951, and a honorary doctor of laws from across the country gather at degree in 2007 from Southwestern University School of Law. Prior to his appointment to the appellate bench, Judge Alarcón served as a deputy Pepperdine and generously give of their district attorney for Los Angeles County, from 1952 to 1961. He served time to train law clerks on how to be professional, effective, within the administration California governor Edmund G. “Pat” Brown and successful. The wisdom the judges and professors share as a legal advisor and clemency and extradition secretary from 1961 to 1962, and as executive assistant to the governor from 1962 to 1964. He during the program is invaluable. We are excited to also served as chair of the California Parole Board’s Adult Authority in continue working with the American Bankruptcy Institute 1964, as judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court from 1964 to 1978, and as associate justice of the California Court of Appeal from 1978 to 1979. (ABI) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC). The ABI and Judge Alarcón has served as an adjunct professor at the University of FJC will sponsor bankruptcy and career clerks to attend. Southern California Law School, Loyola Law School, and Southwestern We invite federal term clerks who will be beginning a University School of Law. federal clerkship at the appellate, district, or magistrate The Honorable Carol Bagley Amon court level to enroll. Through the kindness of former law Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York clerks and other friends of Judge Byrne, and also through Since April 5, 2011, Judge Amon has served as chief judge of the Eastern District and serves on the Judicial Conference of Pepperdine University, we have travel scholarships available the United States. Judge Amon was a member of the Judicial for a limited number of new clerks who would like to Committee on Codes of Conduct from 1993 to 2001 and attend. We deeply appreciate the continued support of chair from 1998 to 2001. She also served as an advisor to the American Bar Association Joint Commission to Evaluate the judges, professors, clerks, and students who have helped to Model Code of Judicial Conduct. She is a graduate of William and Mary and make this conference a success for over a decade. We look the University of Virginia School of Law. Prior to her appointment to the forward to meeting you. district court in 1990, Judge Amon served as a U.S. magistrate, and assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. Naomi Harlin Goodno Associate Professor of Law Director, Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., Judicial Clerkship Institute The Honorable Bobby R. Baldock United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit President Ronald Reagan appointed Judge Baldock to the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in 1985. Previously, Judge Baldock served on the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. During his judicial tenure, Judge Baldock has served the federal courts in numerous administrative capacities. Most recently, he concluded a three-year term as chair of the Committee on Financial Disclosure of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Judge Baldock graduated from the New Mexico Military Institute in 1956 and from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1960. Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, Judge Baldock practiced law for over two decades with Sanders, Bruin & Baldock in Roswell, New Mexico. Judge Baldock is married and has two grown sons. The Honorable Duane Benton The Honorable Jacqueline Scott Corley United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit United States District Court for the Northern District of California Duane Benton became a judge on the United States Jacqueline Scott Corley has served as a magistrate judge in Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on July 8, 2004. the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, Judge Benton served on the Missouri Supreme Court since May 2011. Just prior to her appointment, she was a from 1991 until 2004 (including as chief justice from partner at Kerr & Wagstaffe, LLP in San Francisco, a 1997 to 1999). Previously, he practiced law from 1983 12-lawyer litigation firm where she practiced civil litigation to 1988, and served as Missouri’s director of revenue in the trial and appellate courts with an emphasis on federal from 1989 to 1991. He is a 1972 graduate of Northwestern University and practice. From 1998 through 2009 Judge Corley served as career law clerk to a 1975 graduate of Yale Law School, where he was managing editor of the Honorable Charles R. Breyer in the Northern District of California. Judge the Yale Law Journal. From 1975 to 1979 Judge Benton served with the Corley received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, and her JD from U.S. Navy as a judge advocate. While in the navy, he earned a master’s Harvard Law School magna cum laude, where she was selected as an editor degree in business administration and accountancy from Memphis State and articles chair of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation from law University, becoming a CPA in Missouri in 1983. Judge Benton earned an school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Keeton of the United LLM from the University of Virginia in 1995. Judge Benton also served as States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She subsequently an adjunct professor at Westminster College, the University of Missouri– practiced complex commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defense at Columbia School of Law, and Vanderbilt University School of Law. Goodwin, Procter LLP in Boston, and then moved to San Francisco and worked as a litigation associate. The Honorable Karon Owen Bowdre United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama The Honorable Jeremy D. Fogel Judge Bowdre received her bachelor’s degree, cum laude, United States District Court for the Northern District of California from Samford University and her law degree, cum laude, Judge Fogel received his BA from Stanford University and from Cumberland School of Law. Judge Bowdre served his JD, cum laude, from Harvard University. Judge Fogel as a law clerk for the Honorable J. Foy Guin, district was in private practice in San Jose from 1974 to 1978, and judge for the Northern District of Alabama. She taught was founder and directing attorney, Mental Health at Cumberland School of Law from 1990 until she took Advocacy Project, Santa Clara County Bar Association Law office in November 2001. Judge Bowdre was director of the legal research Foundation from 1978 to 1981. In 1981 he was appointed to and writing program at the school and taught courses in insurance law, Santa Clara County Municipal Court and appointed to Santa Clara Superior torts, professional responsibility, and appellate advocacy. Prior to joining Court in 1986. He is a frequent lecturer on ethics, discipline, and professional the law faculty, Judge Bowdre practiced law with the Birmingham law conduct for both bench and bar and a lecturer at Stanford University Law firm of Rives & Peterson, handling numerous trial and appellate matters School. He was appointed to the U.S. District Court, Northern District of in state and federal court. California in 1998. Since October of 2011 he has been selected to serve as director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. The Honorable Charles R. Breyer United States District Court for the Northern District of California The Honorable Kent A. Jordan Judge Breyer received his AB in 1963 from Harvard United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit College and his JD in 1966 from UC Berkeley School of Kent A. Jordan was appointed in 2006 to serve as a United Law. Upon graduation from law school, Judge Breyer States circuit judge for the Third Circuit. Prior to that clerked for Oliver J. Carter, chief judge, U.S. District appointment, Judge Jordan was a United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He then Judge for the District of Delaware from 2002 to 2006. He served as an assistant district attorney in San Francisco received a BA in economics in 1981 from Brigham Young until 1973, when he was appointed assistant special prosecutor, Watergate University and a JD in 1984 from Georgetown University, Special Prosecution force. He entered private practice in 1974, where he was articles editor for the Georgetown Law Journal. From 1984 to specializing in the defense of white-collar criminal cases. Judge Breyer is 1985, he was a law clerk for the Honorable James L. Latchum, a judge on the also an adjunct professor at Hastings College of the Law. He was district court where Judge Jordan later served. He is a former assistant U.S.
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