Announcing the newest members of the Claremont family

May 13, 2024

Dear John,

We are delighted to announce the newest members of the Claremont family: the 2024 John Marshall Fellows ([link removed] ) , a promising group of law students, clerks, and attorneys who will join Claremont in the pursuit of preserving the Founders' Constitution.

During the program, John Marshall Fellows learn about and discuss political philosophy, American government, and American history with a specific focus on the origins and development of American constitutional jurisprudence.

As always, thank you for your support in making this program—and all of our programs—a success. We invite you to learn more about the new fellows below.

Clayton Calvin is an attorney with the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s litigation arm, the Center for the American Future, which focuses on shrinking the scope of federal administrative power. Prior to that, he was a constitutional law fellow with the Center and worked with Colorado’s Independence Institute on First and Second Amendment issues. He also worked independently in litigation to limit qualified immunity and defend the constitutional right to earn a living. Mr. Calvin is a graduate of Georgetown University, with degrees in Economics and English, as well as a graduate of Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. In law school, he served as Managing Editor of his law journal and received an award for best student-written article. He also achieved an international moot court victory at London’s Middle Temple and helped Pepperdine introduce plea bargaining to prisons in Uganda by training members of the country’s criminal justice system.

Meredith Criner is a law clerk for the Honorable Michael B. Brennan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Last year, she clerked for the Honorable James C. Dever III of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Meredith graduated from Duke University School of Law in May 2022, receiving the Justin Miller Award for Leadership. At Duke, Meredith served as a research assistant for the Bolch Judicial Institute and student editor of Judicature, Lead Articles Editor for Law & Contemporary Problems, member of the Moot Court and Mock Trial Boards, and President of the Duke Federalist Society. Prior to law school, Meredith grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina and attended Cornell University where she played soccer and participated in the Cornell in Washington program before transferring to North Carolina State University. She graduated from North Carolina State as valedictorian, with a B.A. in history and philosophy.

Devin Froseth will graduate from Yale Law School in 2025 and will clerk for the Honorable Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Before law school, he served in the United States Army, first as an enlisted soldier and later as an officer. Throughout law school, Mr. Froseth has worked as a law clerk for Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, a summer intern for the Solicitor General of Florida, and a summer associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP. He received an M.A. in Government from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Foreign Language from the United States Military Academy. Mr. Froseth is a Blackstone Fellow and Executive Vice President of the Yale Federalist Society.

Alexander Haberbush is President of the Lex Rex Institute, a nonprofit constitutional advocacy organization, and works as an attorney with Constitutional Counsel and Michel & Associates, P.C. Mr. Haberbush has practiced alongside Dr. John Eastman on numerous cases, including defending the rights of free speech and assembly for U.S. Representatives Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene and has been heavily involved in Dr. Eastman’s personal defense. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he successfully defended countless employees against vaccination mandates and assisted small businesses in challenging unconstitutional restrictions. He is actively involved in election integrity initiatives and litigation nationwide. He received his J.D. from the Chapman Fowler School of Law in 2019.

Austin Katz will graduate from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in May 2024. After graduation, Austin will clerk for Judge Greg G. Guidry of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. At Berkeley, Mr. Katz was a research assistant for Professors John C. Yoo and Andrew D. Bradt, Vice President for Faculty Relations for the Berkeley Federalist Society, and a student liaison for the Federalist Society National Litigation Practice Group. He was also a Symposium Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and a board member for Christians at Berkeley Law. He was a summer associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Washington, D.C., and a judicial extern for Judge Roger T. Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. He received his B.A. in Political Science with high honors from the University of California, San Diego.

Brantley Mayers is a law clerk to Judge Barbara Lagoa of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He previously served as a law clerk to Justice John D. Couriel of the Florida Supreme Court, and he will soon begin a clerkship with Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Mr. Mayers graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law, where he was Executive Articles Editor for the Florida Law Review and Senior President of Florida’s Federalist Society Chapter. During law school, he worked in both the General Counsel’s Office for Governor Ron DeSantis and the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice. He also spent time as a law clerk for Shutts & Bowen LLP. He is a Blackstone Fellow and holds a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College.

Justin Miller is an associate at Schaerr | Jaffe LLP, where he handles trial and appellate litigation matters in federal and state courts across the country. His experience spans a range of practice areas, including the First and Second Amendments, elections, social issues, administrative law, and business litigation. Mr. Miller is a former clerk to Judge Andrew L. Brasher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He graduated cum laude from BYU Law School, where he held leadership roles with the BYU Law Review, the Federalist Society, and the International Center for Law & Religion Studies. He has held fellowships with the James Wilson Institute and the Napa Legal Institute. He received a B.A. in History from Brigham Young University.

Christine Pratt is Counselor to Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, serving as a special litigator for the State of Florida. Previously, she clerked for Judge Robert J. Luck on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; represented people of faith as Counsel at the First Liberty Institute; served in the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education; and clerked for Federal Magistrate Judge Robert T. Numbers II on the Eastern District of North Carolina. Mrs. Pratt lives in Jacksonville with her husband and three children, where she enjoys making dessert crepes and fishing for bass in the neighborhood lake. Her favorite Christian saints are Silouan the Athonite, Therese of Lisieux, and Moses the Strong. A native Floridian, she received a B.A. in Economics and a law degree at the University of Florida.

Maguire Radosevic is a 2024 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and will clerk for Chief Judge Stephen Clark of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. At Berkeley, he served as President of the Federalist Society and as a research assistant to Professors John Yoo and Orin Kerr. Mr. Radosevic worked as a legal intern at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and as a summer associate in the Newport Beach, California, office of Irell & Manella LLP. He also externed for Judge William Lafferty of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Truman State University, with a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics.

Jordan Richardson is an attorney at Heise Suarez Melville in Miami, Florida. He has served in various positions in the federal government, including at the White House Domestic Policy Council as a Special Assistant to the President, a Policy Advisor in the Office of American Innovation, and a Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Labor. Mr. Richardson has also worked for several non-profit organizations in Washington, D.C., including at The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Following his time in federal service, Mr. Richardson completed a two-year federal clerkship with the Hon. Aileen M. Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. In 2023, he was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis to serve as a commissioner on the Judicial Nominating Commission of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. He earned a B.A., summa cum laude, from Marshall University and a J.D. from Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law.

Tim Rosenberger is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and is founding COO at Verbum Labs. Mr. Rosenberger holds a JD/MBA from Stanford University, where he was President of the Federalist Society and was published in the Stanford Law Review, and an LLM from the University of Vienna. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where he serves as a chaplain for the Division of Police and formerly worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. His policy interests lie at the intersection of law, faith, education, and business, with a particular focus on leveraging policy to help America’s overlooked populations create lives of dignity.

Elana Shapiro graduated from Georgetown Law’s evening program while working full time as a Program Manager at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. At Georgetown, Mrs. Shapiro was a Technology Law and Policy Scholar, President of the Cyberlaw Society, Co-Founder and President of the Conservative and Libertarian Student Association, director of clerkship advising for the Federalist Society, and a competitor on the Trial Advocacy team. She externed for the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights, Ellis George Cipollone, Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and Senator Mike Lee on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mrs. Shapiro graduated summa cum laude from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, and is the first graduate of the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership. She will clerk for Judge Kevin Newsom on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and return to D.C. to join the litigation group at Kirkland & Ellis.

Rachel Wolff is a 2024 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center. She will serve as a law clerk for the Honorable J. Brett Busby on the Texas Supreme Court and then for the Honorable Timothy M. Tymkovich on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Ms. Wolff served as President of the Georgetown Law Federalist Society and as an editor for the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. She was also a Bradley Scholar with the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. While at Georgetown, she worked as a law clerk for the Senate Judiciary Committee and for Senator Marco Rubio. She holds a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.

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