PERSON: Carrie Severino

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Carrie Campbell Severino (born 1976/1977) is an American lawyer and conservative political activist. She is the president of the Concord Fund, where she supported the Supreme Court nominations of Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. She is the coauthor (with Mollie Hemingway) of Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court.

Severino, born Carrie Campbell, grew up in Michigan. Her father is an oncologist, and her mother is a nurse.

Severino attended Duke University, graduating in 1999 with a B.A. in biology. In 2001 she received a master’s degree in Linguistics from Michigan State University.

While attending Harvard Law School, she met her future husband Roger Severino, two years ahead of her there. Both were active with the law school’s Society for Law, Life and Religion, a conservative anti-abortion group.

In 2004, after receiving her JD from Harvard Law School, Severino worked as a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

She was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for a year (2007–2008).She later spent time at Georgetown University Law Center with an Olin/Searle Fellowship, an award funded by the Federalist Society that “offers top young lawyers with a scholarly bent the opportunity to spend 1-2 years to write and develop their scholarship with the goal of entering the legal academy.”

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