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To: NRx

Take it to the bank!

From MICHIGAN.....

...I give you our next Supreme Court Justice.

!!!!! Joan Larsen !!!!!

Biography

Larsen is a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, where she graduated first in her class in 1993. While at Northwestern, she served as articles editor of the Northwestern University Law Review.

Larsen became a professor at the University of Michigan School of Law in 1998. She clerked for David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1994 term

She served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel from January 2002 to May 2003 in the administration of then-President George W. Bush.

Larsen is a member of the Federalist Society.[5]
Michigan Supreme Court Service

On October 1, 2015, Larsen was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court by Governor Rick Snyder to replace Justice Mary Beth Kelly, who announced plans to resign and return to private practice, effective October 1, 2015.

She was elected on November 8, 2016, to fill the remainder of Kelly’s unexpired term, which runs through the end of 2018.

Larsen received 58.7% of the vote in a three-way race against Deborah Thomas and Kerry Morgan

She was on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s May 2016 list of potential Supreme Court justices.

Her service was terminated due to her appointment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.


11 posted on 06/29/2018 5:15:43 PM PDT by RevelationDavid (Jesus First, no matter the cost.)
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To: RevelationDavid

No doubt, she sounds like a strong candidate.


29 posted on 06/29/2018 5:42:30 PM PDT by libertylover (If people come here legally, they're immigrants; if they come here illegally, they're invaders.)
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