Jill Jacobson is a law clerk to Judge Aileen M. Cannon on the District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She will be a law clerk to Judge Elizabeth L. Branch on the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Jill was previously a visiting fellow with the Independent Women's Law Center and a Contributor at Young Voices. She has also been a Litigation Contractor at the Institute for Justice.
She holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School and a Masters from Northeastern University. Jill regularly writes on administrative law topics and free speech in the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Law and Liberty, the National Review, and elsewhere. She has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business, and other media outlets.
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