Amy Coney Barrett

Described as

American lawyer and jurist (born 1972)

Other names

Amy Vivian Coney, Amy Coney, ACB, A. Barrett, Amy Vivian Coney Barrett

Born

January 28, 1972 · 1 reference

Born in

New Orleans · 1 reference

Name at birth

Amy Vivian Coney

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

judge; jurist · 1 reference; university teacher; lawyer · 1 reference

Positions held

Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (2017–2020); Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (2020–) · 1 reference

Political party

Republican Party · 1 reference

Worked for

Notre Dame Law School (2002–) · 1 reference; Baker Botts (2001); George Washington University Law School (2001–2002)

Education

Notre Dame Law School (–1997); Rhodes College (–1994); St. Mary's Dominican High School (–1990); Archbishop Rummel High School

Member of

Federalist Society · 1 reference; People of Praise · 1 reference; American Law Institute

Spouse

Jesse M. Barrett · 1 reference

Religion

Catholicism

Wikipedias with a page

51

Wikidata item Q29863844 (wikidata.org/wiki/Q29863844), public domain (CC0). Copied November 13, 2026.

Amy Vivian Coney Barrett (née Coney; born January 28, 1972) is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2020 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The fifth woman to serve on the court, she was nominated by President Donald Trump. She was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2017 to 2020.
Barrett graduated from Rhodes College before attending Notre Dame Law School, earning a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1997 and ranked first in her class. She then clerked for Judge Laurence Silberman and Justice Antonin Scalia. In 2002, Barrett joined the faculty at Notre Dame Law School, becoming a professor in 2010. While a circuit judge, she continued to teach civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation.
On September 26, 2020, shortly after United States Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, Trump nominated Barrett to succeed her. Her nomination was controversial because the 2020 presidential election was only 38 days away and Senate Republicans had refused to hold hearings for Merrick Garland during an election year in 2016. The next month, the United States Senate voted 52–48 to confirm her nomination, with all Democrats and one Republican in opposition.
Described as a protégée of Justice Antonin Scalia, Barrett supports textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in constitutional interpretation. While generally considered to be among the Court's conservative bloc, Barrett has demonstrated a growing pattern of independence and moderation as a swing vote in some controversial cases. Barrett has said she does not think of herself as a swing vote or a conservative, but as an originalist. She published her first book, Listening to the Law, in September 2025.

Born, in its opening lines

January 28, 1972

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