President, Michigan Student Chapter
Matthew Holmes is a 3L at the University of Michigan Law School, where he serves as the President of the Federalist Society Student Chapter and as an Articles Editor for the Michigan Journal of Law Reform. He is also an Associate Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.
Matthew graduated from Concordia University Nebraska, where he played quarterback on the football team. Before law school, he taught middle school science and high school history at one of San Diego's leading classical schools.
At Michigan, Matthew founded "Courtside", a video series where he interviews Federal Judges and other "preeminent legal minds in some of the greatest athletic venues across the country." The series was designed to make the judiciary more accessible to the public and has attracted tens of thousands of views across platforms.
Matthew spent his 1L summer at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of California and his 2L summer at O’Melveny & Myers in Newport Beach.
In his spare time, Matthew enjoys serving as a high school football official, an experience that continues to shape his appreciation for fairness and the consistent application of rules.
Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Judge Paul Matey was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 2019 by President Trump.
Before his judicial service, Judge Matey was a partner at Lowenstein Sandler in New Jersey where he practiced complex commercial litigation and criminal defense. Earlier, Judge Matey was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for University Hospital Newark, an academic medical center and teaching hospital.
He also served as the Deputy Chief Counsel to Governor Chris Christie, and as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of New Jersey, where he was awarded the Justice Department’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance. He also practiced at the Washington D.C. firm of Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, and served as a law clerk to judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Scranton, a Jesuit University, in 1993, and his juris doctorate, summa cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2001, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Seton Hall Law Review.
In 2019, Judge Matey was elected to membership in the American Law Institute and, since 2020, has lectured on administrative law and the American legal history at Seton Hall.
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Matthew Holmes, Paul B. Matey
2025 National Lawyers Convention
The Student Division and a rotating Student Chapter President will host a live event called...