Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Judge Sean Jordan is a federal district judge for the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman
Division. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Jordan worked on complex civil litigation and
appellate cases for twenty-five years in both government service and private practice.
He has managed the appellate sections of two large law firms and previously served as
Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the Office of the Solicitor General of Texas.
Judge Jordan received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Texas at
Austin and his J.D., with honors, from the University of Texas School of Law. Prior to
attending UT Austin, he served in the U.S. Army as an infantryman and paratrooper in
the 82nd Airborne Division.
Principal Deputy Solicitor General, Alabama Office of the Attorney General
Robert M. Overing is the Principal Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Alabama and Adjunct Professor at Faulkner University's Jones School of Law. He previously served as a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and as Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California with a masters degree in Philosophy and Law.
Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Joel M. Zinberg, M.D., J.D. is a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He is a native New Yorker who recently completed two years as General Counsel and Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President. He practiced general and oncologic surgery in New York for nearly 30 years at the Mount Sinai Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine where he is an Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery. He has been involved with health policy issues and the interaction between law and medicine for his entire career. Dr. Zinberg taught for 10 years at the Columbia University Law School as a Lecturer in Law where he created a course on the legal, policy and ethical issues surrounding organ transplantation. He served for many years on the New York State Board of Professional Medical Conduct and on Mount Sinai's Ethics Committee and Institutional Review Board. He is past President and Trustee of the New York County Medical Society. Between 2015 and 2017 he was a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Dr. Zinberg has written for publications as varied as the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, the Wall Street Journal, City Journal and law reviews. He is the author of book chapters on legal and policy issues in organ transplantation.
He received his J.D. degree from the Yale Law School, his M.D. from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and his B.A. in economics with High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from Swarthmore College.
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