Amy Coney Barrett Wiki – Biography
Amy Coney Barrett is an American attorney, jurist, and academic who serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
President Donald Trump nominated Barrett to the Seventh Circuit on May 8, 2017, and the Senate confirmed her on October 31, 2017. Before and while serving on the federal bench, she has been a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, where she has taught civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation.
Eleven months after her confirmation to the Seventh Circuit, Barrett was added to Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees. On September 26, 2020, Trump nominated Barrett to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Supreme Court.
Amy Coney Barrett Age
Amy Coney Barrett is 48-years-old.
Family & Siblings
Barrett was born Amy Vivian Coney on January 28, 1972, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the eldest of seven children, with five sisters and a brother. Her father, Michael Coney, worked as an attorney for Shell Oil Company and her mother, Linda, was a high school French teacher and homemaker. Her family were devout Catholics, and her father has been an ordained deacon since 1982. Barrett grew up in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans.
Education
She attended St. Mary’s Dominican High School, an all-girls Roman Catholic high school, from which she graduated in 1990. She was student body vice-president in high school.
After high school, Coney attended Rhodes College on a scholarship, where she majored in English literature and minored in French. She graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. In her graduating class, she was named most outstanding English department graduate. She then studied law at the Notre Dame Law School on a full-tuition scholarship. She was an executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review and graduated first in her class in 1997 with a Juris Doctor summa cum laude.
Husband & Children
Barrett is married to Jesse Barrett, a former prosecutor in Indiana. They’ve been married for more than 18 years.
Amy Coney and Jesse Barrett are raising seven children, including two born in Haiti. One of their children is special needs with Down Syndrome. Her children and their ages as of Fall 2020 were: Emma (19), Vivian (16), Tess (16), John Peter (13), Liam (11), Juliet (9), and Benjamin (8).
During her confirmation hearing to the federal bench, Barrett spoke about her children. At the time she said:
Emma is … the first apple of our eye. … Vivian is our miracle. … She was born in Haiti. She came home when she was 14-months-old, and she weighed 11 pounds and she was so weak we were told she might never walk normally or speak. Today Vivian is a track star, and I assure you she has no trouble talking. Tess… is one of the most compassionate and determined people that I know. Liam is 8. Typically curious 8-year-old. And Juliet is our spunky 6-year-old. Benjamin, our youngest, is five. He has special needs. That presents unique challenges for all of us. But I think all you need to know about Benjamin’s place in the family is summed up by the fact the other children unreservedly identify him as their favorite sibling.”
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone & Family Are Also Behind Her
Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court hearing today, you may be wondering who is sitting behind her. Barrett’s family and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone can be seen sitting behind her today. Barrett’s family can be seen sitting behind her during the first day of her confirmation hearing, reported Grace Segers of CBS News.
To the viewer’s right, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone can be seen sitting behind her, reported Segers of CBS News.
Cipollone was the man at the heart of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense strategy. He was reportedly an informal advisor to the White House for months before being brought on officially, Business Insider reported. Cipollone was a partner at the law firm Stein Mitchell Cipollone Beato & Missner LLP before joining the White House.
The confirmation hearing is scheduled to run Monday through Thursday, starting at 9 a.m. Eastern each day, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s schedule. Today’s hearing consisted mostly of opening statements. Senate Judiciary Chairman, is presiding over the hearing.
The main questions will begin on Tuesday and continue on Wednesday, October 14 and Thursday, October 15, ABC 8 reported. Each Senator will have 30 minutes to ask questions on Tuesday, followed by 20 minutes to ask questions on October 14. Then if needed, they’ll have 10 minutes each after that, Fox News reported.
The last day, Thursday, will consist of testimony from outside witnesses.
Graham has said that he hopes Barrett’s nomination will be approved by the last week of October, with a Senate vote taking place on the floor that last week before the election, ABC 8 reported.
