District Judge, United States District Court, Northern District of Texas
Biography
Matthew J. Kacsmaryk serves as United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas. He previously served in the (1) private, (2) government, and (3) nonprofit sectors:
Associate in the Dallas office of Baker Botts LLP
Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas
Deputy General Counsel to the First Liberty Institute
Judge Kacsmaryk is an Honors graduate of the University of Texas Law School, where he joined the Federalist Society and served as an Executive Editor of the Texas Review of Law & Politics. Judge Kacsmaryk co-founded the Fort Worth Lawyers Chapter in 2012, coordinated the 2018 Texas Chapters Conference hosted by the Fort Worth Lawyers Chapter, and presently serves on its Advisory Board.
Associate Professor of Law and Director, Religious Liberty Clini, Stanford Law School
Biography
Jim Sonne is a professor at law at Stanford Law School, and is the founding director of the law school’s Religious Liberty Clinic, the only full-time program in the country where students learn the practice of law through supervised litigation in that field. He is an experienced and award-winning teacher, practitioner, and scholar, with expertise in law and religion issues.
Professor Sonne received his BA with honors from Duke University and his JD with honors from Harvard Law School. He is a former law clerk to Judge Edith Brown Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Before joining the law school in 2012, Sonne was an appellate lawyer at Horvitz & Levy in Los Angeles.
