Ann Althouse

Ann Althouse (born January 12, 1951) is an American law professor and blogger. Raised in Newark and Wilmington, Delaware (and later as a teen in Wayne, New Jersey), Althouse has a degree in fine art from the University of Michigan, B.F.A. 1973, and graduated first in her class from New York University School of Law, J.D. 1981. She clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand in the Southern District of New York and practiced law in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell. Since 1984, Althouse has taught federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, and constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, tenured since 1989. She was a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School for the 2007–08 academic year. A "leading light" in federal...