Who is Amy Coney Barrett?
A: Amy Vivian Coney Barrett is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an
associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
When was Amy Coney Barrett was born?
A: In 1972.
Where was she born?
A: In New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Who are her parents?
A: She is the daughter of Linda and Michael Coney.
She is the eldest of how many children?
A: Seven.
Her father worked as a what?
A: An attorney for Shell Oil Company.
What was her mother?
A: She was a high school French teacher and homemaker.
Barrett has what ancestry?
A: Irish and French ancestry.
Her maternal ancestors were from where?
A: Ballyconnell, County Cavan, Ireland.
Her great-great-grandparents emigrated from France to
where?
A: New Orleans.
Her family is devoutly Catholic, and her father is
what?
A: An ordained deacon at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Metairie,
Louisiana, where she grew up.
What high school did she attend?
A: St. Mary's Dominican High School, an all-girls Roman Catholic high school
in New Orleans.
She was student body vice president of the school and
graduated in what year?
A: 1990.
After high school, Barrett attended what college?
A: Rhodes College, where she majored in English
literature and minored in
French.
She graduated in 1994 with what degree?
A: Bachelor of Arts magna-cum-laude and was inducted into Omicron Delta
Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa.
In her graduating class, she was named what?
A: Most outstanding English department graduate.
Barrett then attended what law school?
A: The Notre Dame Law School on a full-tuition scholarship.
She was an executive editor of what?
A: The Notre Dame Law Review.
When did she graduate?
A: In 1997 ranked first in her class with a Juris Doctor summa cum laude.
Barrett spent two years as a “what” after law school?
A: Judicial law clerk, for judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1997 to 1998.
From 1999 to 2002, where did Barrett practice law?
A: At Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin, a boutique law firm for litigation in
Washington, D.C.
In 2002, she joined the faculty of what?
A: Her alma mater, Notre Dame Law School.
What did she teach at Notre Dame?
A: She taught federal courts, evidence, constitutional law, and statutory
interpretation.
In 2007, she was a visiting professor where?
A: At the University of Virginia School of Law.
When was Barrett named a professor of law at Notre Dame?
A: In 2010, and from
2014 to 2017 held Notre Dame's Diane and M.O. Miller II
Research Chair of Law.
In 2010, Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Barrett
to serve on what?
A: The Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.
On May 8, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated
Barrett to what?
A: The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit after Judge
John Daniel Tinder took senior status.
On the Seventh Circuit, Barrett wrote how many majority
opinions?
A: 79.
President Donald Trump nominated Barrett to the Supreme
Court on what date?
A: September 26, 2020.
Barrett's nomination was generally supported by
Republicans, who sought to confirm her before what?
A: The 2020 United States presidential
election.
She was a favorite among what?
A: The Christian right and social conservatives.
On October 26, the Senate confirmed Barrett to the
Supreme Court by a vote of 52–48, 30 days after her nomination and 8 days
before what?
A: The 2020 presidential election.
Barrett is the first justice since 1870 to be confirmed
without a single vote from what?
A: The Senate minority party.