The Law Library of Congress and the Supreme Court Fellows Program will present a conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett for the 2026 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture on Thursday, March 12, at 3 p.m. EDT.
Barrett was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Jan. 28, 1972. She married Jesse M. Barrett in 1999, and they have seven children. She received a B.A. from Rhodes College in 1994 and a J.D. from Notre Dame Law School in 1997. 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 of the United States during the 1998 Term. After two years in private law practice in Washington, D.C., she became a law professor, joining the faculty of Notre Dame Law School in 2002. She was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017. President Donald J. Trump nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat on Oct. 27, 2020.
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