The Deseret News recently printed this story on former law professor and former federal appellate judge Michael McConnell (now directing Stanford's Constitutional Law Center), including a few paragraphs devoted to McConnell's first encounter with a certain law review editor who would one day occupy the White House.
In reading Professor McConnell's bio at the Stanford website, I note this sentence: "He is the only full-time professor of law in the nation who has previously served as a federal judge." That's quite an interesting piece of trivia (and, I assume, a claim that excludes law deans [such as Duke's David Levi, a former federal district judge]).
Thanks for this, Tim.
In addition to Dean (Judge) David Levi, former tenth circuit judge Robert Henry is now president of Oklahoma City University.
Posted by: Alfred Brophy | January 15, 2011 at 05:10 PM
Al, and yet another 10th Circuit judge might join the list, if Pepperdine selects Judge Deanell Tacha as its next law dean.
Maybe we'll starting looking to the 10th Circuit as a "feeder" into the academy!
Posted by: Tim Zinnecker | January 15, 2011 at 05:18 PM
Paul Cassell is another example, I believe:
http://www.law.utah.edu/faculty/faculty-profile/?id=paul-cassell
Posted by: Orin Kerr | January 15, 2011 at 05:23 PM
Orin, I remembered that Judge Cassell had taught before becoming a federal judge, but I forgot (or did not know) that he had returned to academia.
Posted by: Tim Zinnecker | January 15, 2011 at 05:35 PM