On January 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a...
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Nicholas Holmes
Law Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals
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Nicholas Gadola Holmes graduated summa cum laude from Michigan Law School in 2024. He received the school's Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship Award and 1908 Memorial Scholarship Award. Nicholas was a co-chair of the speaker committee and a member of the executive board for Michigan's Federalist Society chapter. He currently serves as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and following that, will clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Nicholas attended the University of Notre Dame for undergrad, where he graduated with a degree in history & political science.
Jonathan Berry is Solicitor at the U.S. Department of Labor, in service to President Trump’s agenda to put American workers first. He leads the Department’s lawyers in advising the Secretary and agency leadership on all aspects of law and in representing the Department in court. He was previously managing partner at Boyden Gray PLLC, where he provided strategic counsel and litigated on issues at the intersection of law, politics, and public policy. Earlier, he headed the regulatory office at Labor, and also served at the Department of Justice, in the first Trump Administration. Mr. Berry served as a law clerk to Judge Jerry E. Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and to Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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