Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in November 2017. She serves on the faculty of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned her J.D., summa cum laude. She clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. From 2010-2016, she served by appointment of Chief Justice John Roberts on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. Judge Barrett has written on constitutional law and statutory interpretation in numerous journals, including the Columbia, Virginia, and Texas Law Reviews.