News arrives on heels of Belmont Law’s accreditation success
Belmont University’s College of Law announced today that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has been confirmed to speak at the school’s first graduation next year. The inaugural commencement is scheduled for 10 a.m., May 10, 2014 in the Curb Event Center, and the College currently anticipates approximately 120 graduates from the three-year program.
College of Law Dean Jeff Kinsler said, “It is an honor for any law school to have a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court as its commencement speaker, but it is an especially great honor for a law school to have a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court Justice as its first commencement speaker.”
Nashville Bar Association President Tom Sherrard, founding member of Sherrard and Roe, added, “As president of the Nashville Bar Association, I offer my congratulations to the College of Law at Belmont University upon its obtaining Justice Samuel Alito’s commitment to speak at its first commencement. The involvement of a Supreme Court Justice in the life of a law school, and especially as a commencement speaker, is a mark of high distinction for the College of Law, and it confirms the success the College of Law has enjoyed in its first three years of existence.”
Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., was born in Trenton, New Jersey, April 1, 1950, and was educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk for Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1976–1977. He was assistant U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1977–81, assistant to the solicitor general for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1981–85, deputy assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1985–87, and U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1987–90. He was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1990. President George W. Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat January 31, 2006.
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