Brett Kavanaugh is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and wrote about athletics for the Yale Daily News. At Yale University, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with high honors in history in 1987.
As a Yale Law School student, Kavanaugh shared an apartment with future Supreme Court Justice James E. Boasberg and played basketball with professor George L. Priest (sponsor of Yale Law School’s Federalist Society).
A member of Yale Law Journal and notes editor in his third year, he also participated on the editorial board. In 1990, Kavanaugh received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School.
As a legal clerk for Judge Walter King Stapleton on the Third Circuit, Kavanaugh spent the years 1990-1991 in Washington, DC. Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a case in which Stapleton served as a clerk, saw the Third Circuit uphold many of Pennsylvania’s restrictive abortion laws.
Judge Alex Kozinski was Kavanaugh’s clerk for two years at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1991 to 1992.
Brett Kavanaugh Parents: Meet Everett Edward Kavanaugh Jr., and Martha Kavanaugh
Judge Brett Kavanaugh was born to his parents Everett Edward Kavanaugh Jr (father) and Martha Kavanaugh (mother). On both sides of his family, he is descended from people of Irish Catholic origin.
As well as being a lawyer, Kavanaugh’s father served as the CTFA’s president for two decades. At Woodson and McKinley high schools in Washington, DC, his mother taught history for two decades between 1968 and 1977.
She was a Maryland Circuit Court judge in Montgomery County, Maryland, from 1995 until 2001 after receiving her law degree from American University in 1978.
