On Wednesday, July 16, Catholic University Law Professor Jennifer Mascott was nominated by President Donald J. Trump to serve as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professor Mascott, a nationally recognized scholar of constitutional and administrative law, is the Founder of the Separation of Powers Institute at Catholic Law and an Affiliated Fellow with the Law School’s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT). On leave from her faculty role, she currently serves in the White House Counsel’s Office and has held prior roles in the Department of Justice, as well as serving as a law clerk to both Justice Clarence Thomas and then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Her scholarship focuses on the separation of powers, theories of constitutional and statutory interpretation, and the structure of the federal government. Her work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts, and has appeared in leading journals, including the Stanford Law Review, Supreme Court Review, and Florida Law Review, among others.

The Catholic University community congratulates Professor Mascott on this prestigious nomination.

Read Professor Mascott’s full faculty bio here, and more about the Separation of Powers Institute here.