Short Bio:
Wendy Long served as a law clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City, and then for Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Long then served as a litigation partner for the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, LLP.
In 2005, she joined the Judicial Confirmation Network as chief counsel. Long advanced the cause of judicial restraint through extensive media and public speaking; participated in discussion and debate on U.S. Circuit Court and U.S. Supreme Court nominations and led public support or opposition to them, including supporting confirmations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Long also played a prominent role during the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.
Since 2007, Long has been a legal advisor to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.
Long is a current Member of the Board of Trustees of Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY. She is an active member of the Church of Our Saviour in Manhattan and she is a Roman Catholic catechism teacher.
Long has also served as press secretary for two Republican U.S. Senators, William L. Armstrong from Colorado and Gordon J. Humphrey from her native New Hampshire.
Long was graduated from Dartmouth College and from Northwestern University School of Law, cum laude and Order of the Coif, in 1995, where she was a member of the Law review. She spent her third year at Harvard Law School.
She also studied as a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute.
She married Arthur S. Long in 1998. They are raising their two children in New York City.
NOTE: She is not related to Michael R. Long, the chairman of the Conservative Party of New York State, despite Michael Long’s support of Wendy’s Senate campaign.
I got to send her some money.