Vinson & Elkins - Careers - Judicial Clerkship

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Attorney	School	Judge	Court	Term

Christopher B. Amandes Partner Houston	University of California at Los Angeles	John Brown	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1985-1986

Todd G. Ammermann Associate Dallas	University of Virginia	Rebecca B. Smith	U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia	1996-1997

Scott J. Atlas Partner Houston	The University of Texas	Thomas G. Gee	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1975-1976

Dennis Alan Beck, Jr. Associate Houston	The University of Texas	Nathan L. Hecht	Texas Supreme Court	1997-1998

Maria Elena Bickerton Associate Austin	The University of Texas	Betty B. Fletcher	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	2001-2002

Caroline B. Blitzer Associate Houston	Louisiana State University	Jacques L. Wiener, Jr.	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1996-1997

Ronald F. Bradshaw Of Counsel Austin	The University of Texas	Jacques L. Wiener, Jr.	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1995-1996

Scott W. Breedlove Of Counsel Dallas	The University of Texas	Robert E. Payne	U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia	1994-1995

David H. Brown Partner Houston	The University of Texas	James L. Noel, Jr.	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1975-1977

C. Michael Buxton Partner Washington, D.C.	University of Kentucky	William H. Rehnquist	U.S. Supreme Court	1977-1978

Charles F. Caldwell Partner Houston	University of Virginia	George P. Kazen	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1990-1991

Steven Matthew Cook Associate Houston	Brigham Young University	Edith H. Jones	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1998-1999

Christopher M. Dawe Associate Washington, D.C.	University of Virginia	Diane G. Sypolt	U.S. Court of Federal Claims	1994-1995

Richard P. Dearing Associate Houston	Yale Law School	Lee H. Rosenthal	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1999-2000

Timothy J. Devetski Partner Houston	Northwestern University	F.A. Little, Jr.	U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana	1993-1994

Phillip Bruce Dye, Jr. Partner Houston	Louisiana State University	Fred A. Blanche, Jr.	Louisiana Supreme Court	1985-1986

Billy Coe Dyer Partner Houston	The University of Texas	William H. Thornberry	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1985-1986

Cristy C. Edwards Associate Houston	Louisiana State University	W. Eugene Davis	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1999-2000

Leila M. El-Hakam Associate Houston	The University of Texas	Nathan L. Hecht	Texas Supreme Court	1998-1999

Dan A. Fleckman Partner Houston	The University of Texas	Joe R. Greenhill	Texas Supreme Court	1966-1967

N. Scott Fletcher Partner Houston	Tulane University	Andrew G.T Moore, II	Delaware Supreme Court	1989-1990

Scott T. Fuqua Associate Dallas	University of Chicago	Pamela B. Minzner	New Mexico Supreme Court	2001-2002

Yvette V. Gatling Associate Houston	Louisiana State University	Tucker L. Melancon	U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana	1998-1999

Aron LeAnn Gregg Associate Dallas	The University of Texas	Deborah J. Hankinson	Texas Supreme Court	2000-2001

Vanessa Maire Griffith Partner Houston	The University of Texas	David Hittner	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1994-1996

Ara Ayles Hardig Associate Houston	South Texas College of Law	M. H. Schneider	Texas Court of Appeals for the First District	1999-2000

Lauren J. Harrison Associate Houston	Cornell University	Thomas S. Zilly	U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington	1995-1996

Lauren J. Harrison Associate Houston	Cornell University	Eugene A. Wright	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	1996-1997

David T. Harvin Partner Houston	The University of Texas	John M. Wisdom	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1970-1971

Lynn G. Haufrect Staff Attorney Houston	University of Houston	Karen Kennedy Brown	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1989-1990

Jay Howell Hebert Partner Washington, D.C.	Harvard Law School	Patrick E. Higginbotham	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1986-1987

David T. Hedges, Jr. Partner Houston	The University of Texas	William H. Thornberry	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1971-1972

Kenneth P. Held Partner Houston	Yale Law School	Milton Pollack	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York	1993-1994

David Paul Henry Associate Dallas	Texas Tech	Robert M. Parker	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	2000-2001

Bruce C. Herzog Partner Houston	The University of Texas	William H. Thornberry	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1988-1989

Daniel E. Hinde Associate Houston	The University of Texas	Simeon T. Lake	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1997-1998

Paula W. Hinton Partner Houston	University of Alabama	David Bagwell	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama	1979-1980

Karen L. Hirschman Partner Dallas	The University of Texas	H. Barefoot Sanders	U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas	1983-1984

Regina K. Ibarra Associate Houston	The University of Texas	Joseph T. Sneed, III	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	2001-2002

David R. Keyes Partner Houston	The University of Texas	Walter R. Ely, Jr.	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	1968-1969

Robert L. Kimball Partner Dallas	University of Chicago	Patrick E. Higginbotham	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1986-1987

Christopher S. Kippes Associate Dallas	Yale Law School	Conrad K. Cyr	U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit	1994-1995

George M. Kryder Partner Dallas	Vanderbilt University	Harry Phillips	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit	1977-1978

Sarah Beth Landau Associate Houston	Columbia University	Vanessa D. Gilmore	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	2000-2001

Keith Walton Lapeze Associate Houston	Louisiana State University	James L. Dennis	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1998-1999

Julia Bea Latham Associate Washington, D.C.	University of Hawaii	Herbert Y.C. Choy	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	2000-2001

Thomas S. Leatherbury Partner Dallas	Yale Law School	Robert M. Hill	U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas	1979-1980

Benjamin Moses Leff Associate Austin	Yale Law School	Douglas P. Woodlock	U.S. District Court of Massachusetts	2000-2001

Kevin Paul Lewis Partner Houston	Harvard Law School	Jerre S. Williams	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1986-1987

Robert B. Little Associate Dallas	The University of Texas	Patrick E. Higginbotham	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1998-1999

Dionne C. Lomax Associate Washington, D.C.	University of Pennsylvania	Clifford S. Green	U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania	1995-1996

Joseph E. Lynch Partner Washington, D.C.	University of Virginia	James H. Michael, Jr.	U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia	1984-1985

Mary Michelle Mahony Associate Houston	The University of Texas	Ewing Werlein, Jr.	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1997-1999

Jeffery K. Malonson Associate Houston	Southern Methodist University	Richard A. Schell	U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas	1998-1999

Jonathan L. Marsh Associate Houston	Villanova University	John P. Fullam	U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania	1997-1998

Jonathan L. Marsh Associate Houston	Villanova University	Ruggero J. Aldisert	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit	1998-1999

Henry S. May, Jr. Partner Houston	The University of Texas	Malcolm R. Wilkey	U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia	1972-1973

Gregg Smolenski McHugh Associate Houston	The University of Texas	W. Royal Furgeson, Jr.	U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas	2001-2002

Julie Katherine Melton Associate Dallas	The University of Texas	Nathan L. Hecht	Texas Supreme Court	2001-2002

Michael W. Mengis Partner Houston	Louisiana State University	Frank J. Polozola	U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana	1986-1987

Charles T. Newton, Jr. Partner Houston	The University of Texas	William H. Thornberry	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1967-1968

Ba Mau Nguyen Associate Houston	The University of Texas	Melinda Harmon	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1999-2001

Penelope Elizabeth Nicholson Partner Houston	The University of Texas	Robert J. O'Conor	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1981-1983

D. Bobbitt Noel, Jr. Partner Houston	Southern Methodist University	Ross N. Sterling	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1976-1977

Kevin M. O'Gorman Partner Houston	University of Michigan	Howell Cobb	U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas	1993-1994

Richard H. Page Partner Houston	Brigham Young University	James K. Logan	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1982-1983

Carol C. Payne Partner Dallas	Baylor University	E. Grady Jolly	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1993-1994

Matthew Brian Ploeger Associate Austin	Stanford University	Nathan L. Hecht	Texas Supreme Court	2001-2002

Christopher V Popov Associate Austin	The University of Texas	James L. Dennis	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	2001-2002

Tara Porterfield Associate Houston	The University of Texas	Stephen S. Trott	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	1996-1997

S. Douglas Pritchett, Jr. Associate Houston	The University of Texas	Raul Gonzalez	Texas Supreme Court	1998-1998

S. Douglas Pritchett, Jr. Associate Houston	The University of Texas	Alberto R. Gonzalez	Texas Supreme Court	1999-1999

Harry M. Reasoner Partner Houston	The University of Texas	Charles E. Clark	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit	1962-1963

Brian E. Robison Partner Dallas	The University of Texas	John Cornyn	Texas Supreme Court	1995-1996

Carol A. Sandvick Of Counsel Houston	South Texas College of Law	Lee Duggan	Texas Court of Appeals for the First District	1990-1991

Justin M. Shellaway Associate Washington, D.C.	Yale Law School	Jorge A. Solis	U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas	2000-2001

Ben H. Sheppard, Jr. Partner Houston	The University of Texas	William H. Thornberry	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1968-1969

Emilia A. Simonelli Associate New York	Rutgers College	Judith M. Barzilay	U.S. Court of International Trade	1998-1999

Mark R. Spradling Partner Houston	Stanford University	Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr.	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1980-1981

Matthew R. Stammel Associate Dallas	The University of Texas	Richard P. Matsch	U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado	1997-1998

Mary Lou Strange Partner Houston	Oklahoma City University	Lee R. West	U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma	1983-1985

Jennifer Webster Taffe Associate Dallas	The University of Texas	Samuel B. Kent	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1998-1999

Stephen C. Tarry Partner Houston	The University of Texas	Charles Clark	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1978-1979

Charles D. Tetrault Partner Washington, D.C.	George Washington University	Allan M. Hale	Massachusetts Appeals Court	1975-1976

Kristie M. Tice Associate Houston	The University of Texas	Samuel B. Kent	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	1996-1997

Allan Van Fleet Partner Houston	Columbia University	Irving R. Kaufman	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit	1977-1978

Natasha E. Varnovitsky Associate Washington, D.C.	The University of Texas	Ellen L. Hollander	Maryland Court of Special Appeals	2001-2002

D. Gibson Walton Partner Houston	The University of Texas	Malcolm R. Wilkey	U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia	1975-1976

Joe Bill Watkins Partner Austin	The University of Texas	Jack Roberts	U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas	1968-1969

David B. Weaver Partner Austin	South Texas College of Law	Curtis L. Hansen	U.S. District Court of New Mexico	1994-1996

Abigail B. Willie Associate Dallas	Southern Methodist University	George P. Kazen	U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas	2000-2001

David R. Woodcock, Jr. Associate Austin	The University of Texas	Howell Cobb	U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas	2000-2001

William Scott Wyatt Associate Dallas	Southern Methodist University	Sidney A. Fitzwater	U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas	1998-1999

Russell Yager Partner Dallas	Yale Law School	Phyllis A. Kravitch	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit	1988-1989

Marie R. Yeates Partner Houston	Louisiana State University	Alvin B. Rubin	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	1980-1981

Bruce E. Miller Associate Dallas	Georgetown University	Henry A. Politz	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	2000-2001

Bruce E. Miller Associate Dallas	Georgetown University	H. Barefoot Sanders	U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas	1999-2000

David Bernard Kent Associate Washington, D.C.	Stanford University	Theresa Carroll Buchanan	U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia	2002-2003

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