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Name
  
Allison Eid


Spouse
  
Troy Eid

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Education
  
University of Chicago Law School, Stanford University

Allison Hartwell Eid (born 1965) is the 95th Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court and a nominee to be a United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

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Early life and education

Born in Spokane, Washington, Eid earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies with distinction in 1987 from Stanford University, where she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After graduating, she served as a Special Assistant and Speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Education, William Bennett. She left the Department of Education to attend the University of Chicago Law School, where she was articles editor of the law review and was elected to the Order of the Coif before earning her Juris Doctor with high honors in 1991.

After graduating from law school, Eid served as a law clerk for U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jerry Edwin Smith and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. After completing her clerkships, she went on to become a commercial and appellate litigator at the law firm of Arnold & Porter. In 1998, she left Arnold & Porter to serve as an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, where she taught courses on constitutional law, torts, and federalism.

Colorado Solicitor General and Supreme Court of Colorado service

In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Eid to serve on the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, which writes the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and sponsors the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture. In 2005, Republican Governor Bill Owens appointed Eid to serve as Solicitor General of Colorado. A year later, Owens appointed Eid to serve as the 95th Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. In 2008, 75% of Colorado voters voted to retain Eid on the Supreme Court. In May 2016, she was included on President Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme Court justices.

Federal judicial nomination

On June 7, 2017, President Trump nominated Eid to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, to the seat vacated by Judge Neil Gorsuch, who was elevated to the United States Supreme Court. Her nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On September 20, 2017 a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Personal life

Eid met her husband, Troy, when he was standing in line at a Stanford University dorm cafeteria while she was working as a student food service worker and he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily; she later said: "It was love at first sight in the meal card line." In 2006, a few months after Allison Eid was appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court, President George W. Bush appointed Troy Eid as the 41st United States Attorney for the District of Colorado and the first Egyptian-American U.S. Attorney in the country's history. The Eids reside in Morrison, Colorado, with their son Alex and daughter Emily.

References

Allison H. Eid Wikipedia