Nina Pillard

Cornelia Thayer Livingston Nina Pillard is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She is widely viewed as a leading candidate to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Before becoming a judge, Pillard was a tenured law professor at Georgetown University. She also served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Assistant to the Solicitor General. At the time of her confirmation to the federal bench, she was among the most accomplished Supreme Court advocates in the United States, having argued nine cases and briefed more than twentyfive before the Court.

Pillard was born in March 1961 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated from Commonwealth School in Boston in 1978. She earned a bachelors degree with Distinction in History from Yale College in 1983, where she graduated magna cum laude. She then attended Harvard Law School where she was an editor for the Harvard Law Review. She received her J.D. magna cum laude in 1987.

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