Carrie Severino is chief counsel and policy director to the Judicial Crisis Network. Until March 2010, she was an Olin/Searle Fellow and a Dean’s Visiting Scholar at Georgetown Law Center. She was previously a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and to Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, cum laude, of Duke University, and holds a master’s degree in linguistics from Michigan State University.