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John F. Bash

John F. Bash

Partner, Quinn Emanuel

Biography

John F. Bash is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas from 2017 to 2020.  After graduating from Harvard Law School, Mr. Bash clerked for Judge Kavanaugh during his first year on the bench and went on to clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia.  He then served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he argued ten cases in the United States Supreme Court.  He also served briefly as Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President before his appointment as United States Attorney.

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Edith H. Jones

Edith H. Jones

Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Biography

Edith Jones graduated from Alamo Heights High School, where she was a National  Merit Scholar. In 1971, she received her B.A. in Economics from Cornell University, graduating with honors. In 1974, she was awarded her J.D. at the  University of Texas Law School, where she was a law review editor and received the Order of the Coif. 

Judge Jones was the first female partner at Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones (now Hunton Andrews Kurth) where she practiced various types of litigation and  bankruptcy cases. Judge Jones went on the federal bench on June 1, 1985. 

Judge Jones served as a former member of the National Bankruptcy Review  Commission, and as a member of the Judicial Conference Commission on Bankruptcy Rules. Judge Jones served on the White House Fellows Commission.  Judge Jones served on the board of the Sam Houston Area Council of the Boy Scouts  of America. She has been a member of the Garland Walker Inn of Court in Houston for more than 20 years and its President for at least ten years. Judge Jones is also  on the Board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation.

 

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Aaron M. Streett

Aaron M. Streett

Chairman, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law Practice, Baker Botts LLP

Biography

Aaron Streett is the Chairman of Baker Botts’ Supreme Court and Constitutional Law Practice.  He has presented oral argument in scores of appeals, covering the U.S. Supreme Court and courts around the country—including over 40 arguments between the Fifth and D.C. Circuits alone.  Mr. Streett’s practice involves virtually all substantive areas of the law, including commercial litigation, statutory interpretation, constitutional law, administrative law, securities, and jurisdictional issues.  Mr. Streett maintains an active practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, having represented parties in merits cases seven times since 2010, as well as filing numerous amicus and certiorari-stage briefs.  Mr. Streett was named one of only six “Appellate MVPs” for 2014 by Law360, which had previously recognized him in 2011 as one of the top five appellate “Rising Stars” under age 40.  Mr. Streett has been featured on National Law Journal’s Appellate Hot List three times in recent years and in 2021 was named Houston’s “Lawyer of the Year” for Appellate Practice by Best Lawyers magazine.  Mr. Streett is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.  He serves on the Board of Directors for the Fifth Circuit Bar Association and previously served as President of the Houston Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society.  Mr. Streett speaks regularly on the Supreme Court and constitutional law to attorneys and law students around the country.  Following graduation from Hillsdale College and University of Texas School of Law, Mr. Streett served as a law clerk to the Honorable David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to the Honorable William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States. 

 

 

 

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Stephen Sidney Schwartz

Stephen Sidney Schwartz

Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims

Biography

Judge Schwartz was nominated to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on June 7, 2017, confirmed on December 8, 2020, and received his commission on December 22, 2020.

Judge Schwartz graduated from Yale College in 2005. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Online Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and a Hinton Moot Court finalist. He clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Following his clerkship, Judge Schwartz was a litigation associate at D.C. law firm, focusing his practice on appellate and administrative law matters. He then joined a non-profit where he litigated cases related to federal government transparency and administrative agency discretion. In 2016 he joined a D.C. litigation boutique where he represented state and local governments in complex trial court and appellate proceedings, becoming a partner in 2017.

A native of Winona, Minnesota, he lives with his family in Arlington, Virginia.

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George A. Mocsary

George A. Mocsary

Professor of Law, University of Wyoming College of Law

Biography

George Mocsary is an expert in corporate and small-business law, and the law of firearms.

Currently, he is Professor of Law, Founder & Director of Firearms Research Center, and Director of the Business Planning Practicum and at the University of Wyoming College of Law.

Professor Mocsary teaches and writes about Agency & Partnership, Contracts, Corporations, Securities Regulation, the Second Amendment, and Firearms Law, including the intersection of Firearms Law and private law. He is a co-author of Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy (3rd ed. 2021), the first casebook on this topic.

Prior to his appointment at Wyoming, he served as an Associate Professor of Law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law and spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He practiced corporate and bankruptcy law at Cravath, Swaine and Moore in New York, and clerked for the Honorable Harris L. Hartz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Professor Mocsary holds a J.D. from Fordham Law School and an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester Simon School of Business. At Fordham, he graduated first in his class, and served as Notes and Articles Editor of the Fordham Law Review. He has published in the George Washington Law Review, George Mason Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Duke Law Journal Online, and other journals. His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, several U.S. Courts of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Illinois, the Delaware Court of Chancery, and other courts.

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