Independent Women’s Forum is honored to announce that Carrie Severino, president of Justice Crisis Network and coauthor of the bestselling Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court, is the latest entry in our popular series of Champion Women profiles.

Carrie Severino didn’t exactly have her Cecile B. DeMille closeup moment during the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings. But it was hard to miss her. Barrett’s critics constantly invoked Severino’s name. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, the Rhode Island Democrat, for example, portrayed Severino as part of a “dark money” conspiracy plotting to get Barrett on the Supreme Court.

In person, Severino doesn’t seem like a duplicitous doyenne of dark money determined to wreck the justice system. In fact, she comes across a little like Amy Coney Barrett—always smartly dressed in classic, stylish yet modest frocks, her hair worn straight and shoulder-length. She is a legal scholar, practicing Catholic, and mother—she has six children to Barrett’s seven—and is also married to a lawyer, Roger Severino, whom she met at Harvard Law.

Severino has also emerged as one of the most significant players in the ongoing battle to restore the courts to their original function of dealing with legal issues rather than setting social policy. During the Barrett hearings, she dealt quietly with a recent breast cancer diagnosis. Now, she is ready to talk about it to help other women in similar situations.

Severino lives in the Virginia suburbs with the other half of DC’s new “conservative power couple” (as they were dubbed by the New York Times), and their six children.

We know you will enjoy meeting this thoughtful woman who, with the recently confirmed Justice Amy Coney Barrett, embodies the very best in the American legal tradition and, indeed, in American values as a whole.