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Celestine Richards McConville is an American attorney who is a law professor at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law of
Chapman University Chapman University is a private research university in Orange, California. It encompasses ten schools and colleges, including Fowler School of Engineering, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Fowler School of Law, and Schmid College of Scie ...
in
Orange, California Orange is a city located in North Orange County, California. It is approximately north of the county seat, Santa Ana, California, Santa Ana. Orange is unusual in this region because many of the homes in its Old Town District were built before ...
. Her research interests include constitutional and death penalty law.


Biography

McConville grew up in
Rocky River, Ohio Rocky River is a city in western Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. A suburb of Cleveland, it is located along the shore of Lake Erie approximately west of downtown Cleveland. The city is named for the Rocky River that forms its eastern bo ...
. She studied at
Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...
, where she received a
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''
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'' in 1988. She attended the
Georgetown University School of Law The Georgetown University Law Center (Georgetown Law) is the Law school in the United States, law school of Georgetown University, a Private university, private research university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1870 and is the larges ...
, serving as an editor of the ''
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'', graduating
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and ''magna cum laude'' with a J.D. in 1991. After law school, she was
law clerk A law clerk or a judicial clerk is a person, generally someone who provides direct counsel and assistance to a lawyer or judge by researching issues and drafting legal opinions for cases before the court. Judicial clerks often play significant ...
for Judge
Cynthia Holcomb Hall Cynthia Holcomb Hall (February 19, 1929 – February 26, 2011) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central Di ...
of the
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, Judge Donald C. Nugent on the
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, and finally for Chief Justice of the
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William H. Rehnquist William Hubbs Rehnquist ( ; October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American attorney and jurist who served on the U.S. Supreme Court for 33 years, first as an associate justice from 1972 to 1986 and then as the 16th chief justice from 1 ...
in 1992–1993. Following her clerkships, she practiced law for three years as an associate at
Shea & Gardner Shea & Gardner was a Washington, D.C.-based law firm, formed in 1947 and acquired by Boston-based Goodwin Procter in 2004. Founding and clients The firm was founded by two Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration officials, Francis M. Shea and ...
in
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, where she worked on litigation. In 1999, McConville was a visiting professor at
Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Western Reserve University School of Law is one of eight schools at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. It was one of the first schools accredited by the American Bar Association. It is a member of the Association of American ...
. In 2000, McConville joined the faculty of Chapman University as an associate professor of law, where she teaches constitutional law. In 2005, she was promoted to professor of law. From June 2007 to May 2009, she served as associate dean for administrative affairs.


Personal life

She is married to Thomas S. McConville, her law school classmate, who is a Superior Court judge in
Orange County, California Orange County is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,186,989, making it the third-most-populous county in California, the sixth-most-populous in the United States, a ...
. They have two sons.


Select articles

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See also

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List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice) Law clerks have assisted the justices of the United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882. Each justice is permitted to have between three and four law clerks per Court term. Th ...


References


External links


Bio
Chapman University
Columns
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