Jane Kelly | |
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit | |
Assumed office April 25, 2013 | |
Appointed by | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Michael Joseph Melloy |
Personal details | |
Born | Jane Louise Kelly October 28,1964 Greencastle,Indiana,U.S. |
Education | Duke University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
Jane Louise Kelly (born October 28,1964) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Kelly was born in 1964 in Greencastle,Indiana, [1] to Richard and Judith C. Kelly. [2] She graduated from Greencastle High School in 1983 as co-valedictorian. [2] She received a Bachelor of Arts degree,summa cum laude,in 1987,from Duke University,and a Juris Doctor, cum laude ,from Harvard Law School,in 1991. [2] She studied pediatrics for one year in New Zealand under a Fulbright Scholarship in between Duke and Harvard. [3] Her graduating class included Barack Obama. [2]
After graduation,Kelly was a law clerk for Donald J. Porter,chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota in Sioux Falls,South Dakota. [4] She then clerked for David R. Hansen,a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. [4] During the 1993–94 academic year,Kelly taught as a visiting instructor at the University of Illinois College of Law. [4] [5] [1]
In 1994,Kelly became an assistant federal public defender in the Northern District of Iowa. From 1999 to 2013,she served as the supervising attorney in the Cedar Rapids,Iowa office. [6] [7] [1]
On January 31,2013,President Barack Obama nominated Kelly to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit,to the seat vacated by Judge Michael Joseph Melloy,who assumed senior status on February 1,2013. [6] Her nomination was reported on a voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 22. The Senate confirmed Kelly by a 96–0 vote on April 24. [8] She received her commission on April 25. [1]
In March 2016,Kelly was reported to be a potential nominee for the Supreme Court to replace the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. [9] [10] The conservative Judicial Crisis Network ran ads against her to forestall the nomination. [11]
In 2004,Kelly was attacked while jogging in a park in Cedar Rapids,brutally beaten and left barely conscious;her assailant was never identified. [9] [18]
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