Daily Princetonian: Halligan '88 nominated to appeals court

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Caitlin Halligan, General Counsel for the New York County District Attorney’s Office
Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
43 Years Old


President Barack Obama nominated Caitlin Halligan ’88 for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Sept. 29. Halligan is currently general counsel for the Manhattan district attorney's office.

The D.C. circuit is considered the second most powerful court in the United States, though it has the smallest geographical jurisdiction of any federal appeals court. Four of the nine justices on the current Supreme Court — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas — previously served on the D.C. circuit court...

Halligan, who is 43, has been an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Law School since 2005, where she teaches a seminar on federalism and constitutional law. She served as solicitor general of New York from 2001 to 2006, arguing three different cases before the U.S. Supreme Court during that period...

Halligan graduated cum laude from Princeton with a bachelor's degree in history, authoring a thesis titled "Origin and Development of Labor Radicalism in Pullman, Illinois, 1881–1894," and went on to receive her law degree with high honors from Georgetown.

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/10/07/26482/