Michael Bressman, director of Vanderbilt Law School’s Clerkship Program, has announced that 33 Vanderbilt Law graduates, including 23 members of the Class of 2012, secured 35 clerkships this year.
Vanderbilt Law graduates secured federal appellate clerkships with judges on the Third, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits and in federal district courts in 11 states—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas—as well as in the Tennessee Supreme Court and in state appellate courts in Colorado, Oregon and Tennessee.
Class of 2012 Clerks
- John Carl Arceci, for the Honorable Richard L. Gabriel, Colorado Court of Appeals
- Kimberly Lockhart Bell, for the Honorable Abdul K. Kallon, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
- Russell Jason Burke, for the Honorable James C. Mahan ’73, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
- Sean Soren Deitrick, for the Honorable Leonard Devaney III, Alaska Superior Court, 4th District
- Lindsay Cote Donald, for the Honorable John G. Heyburn II, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
- Jenna Golda Farleigh, for the Honorable Ronald M. Gould, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2012-13), and the Honorable Richard C. Tallman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2013-14)
- Martin Leamon Holmes, for the Honorable Joseph F. Anderson Jr., U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
- Brennan Thomas Hughes, for the Honorable William C. Koch ’72, Tennessee Supreme Court
- Eric Daniel Jackson, for the Honorable Bobby E. Shepherd, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Stephen Andrew Josey, for the Honorable J. Daniel Breen, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
- Megan Virginia LaDriere, for the Honorable Reed C. O’Connor, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- Karen Usselman Lindell, for the Honorable Kent A. Jordan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Sarah Christine Marberg, for the Honorable Jane R. Roth, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Matthew Jonathan Meltzer, for the Honorable Gary L. Lancaster, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Gavin Reinke, for the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Marie Elizabeth Roper, for the Honorable William J. Zloch, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Alexandria L. Scarbrough, for the Honorable William J. Haynes Jr. ’73, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
- Jennifer Bennett Shinall, for the Honorable John D. Tinder, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Samara Michelle Spence, for the Honorable Bernice Bouie Donald, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (2012-13), and the Honorable Jane Branstetter Stranch ’78, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (2013-14)
- John Tate Spragens, for the Honorable Kevin H. Sharp ’93, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
- Michael Proctor Walker, for the Honorable W. Louis Sands, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
- Rachel Anne Weisshaar, for the Honorable Rebecca A. Duncan, Oregon Court of Appeals
- John Charles Williams, for the Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt Jr. ’60, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Recent Graduates
- Ryan Daniel Brunson ’11, for the Honorable John T. Nixon ’60, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
- Eva Joelle Yvonne Dossier ’11, for the Honorable Lance M. Africk, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- Kathleen Braun Gilchrist ’11, for the Honorable Julia Smith Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- [To Be Announced] ’11, for the Honorable Karon O. Bowdre, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
- Shannon Marie Kelley ’11, for the Honorable K. Michael Moore, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Katherine Mary Kliebert ’11, for the Honorable Jane M. Triche-Milazzo, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- Diana Lawless ’11, for the Honorable Stephen J. Murphy III, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Philip E. Oliphant ’06, for the Honorable Bernice Bouie Donald, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Emöke K. Pulay ’08, for the Honorable John Everett Williams, Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals
- Karen Elizabeth Spain ’10, for the Honorable Patrick M Duffy, U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
