Amy Howe

Jan 8 2016

In the good news, bad news department . . .

There are a whopping five women on January’s hearing list, which the Court released today. That’s out of the thirty total lawyers who will argue at the Court in January. This is a big improvement from, for example, the October sitting, in  which only one woman — Assistant to the Solicitor General Rachel Kovner — argued.  Kovner returns to the Court on January 20 to argue as an amicus in support of Alaska in Sturgeon v. Frost, the case of an Alaska man who wants to be able to hunt moose from his hovercraft.  Two of Kovner’s female colleagues from the Office of the Solicitor General will join her this month.   And two women from state governments will make their appearances before the Justices as well:  Illinois Solicitor General Carolyn Shapiro and Ruth Botstein, an assistant attorney general from Alaska. The bad news, in case you were wondering, is that (once again) no women from private practice are arguing this month.  In fact, a quick review suggests that there has not yet been a female advocate from outside the state or federal government this Term.

Amy L Howe
Until September 2016, Amy served as the editor and reporter for SCOTUSblog, a blog devoted to coverage of the Supreme Court of the United States; she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for SCOTUSblog. Before turning to full-time blogging, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; from 2005 until 2013, she co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and Vanderbilt Law School. Amy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master’s degree in Arab Studies and a law degree from Georgetown University.
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