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Keith P. Ellison
Keith P. Ellison (born 1950 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas|U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. His chambers are in Houston, Texas.
Educated first at Harvard College, he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to University of Oxford|Oxford where he studied at Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College before earning his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.
After graduating from Yale, he law clerk|clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He then clerked for Justice Harry Blackmun on the Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court during the October 1977 term before entering private practice in Houston.
In 1999, he was nominated by Bill Clinton to a vacant seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and was confirmed by the United States Senate|U.S. Senate. He received his commission on July 7, 1999. His chambers were in Laredo, Texas until 2005 when his duty station transferred to Houston.
See also
- List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
References
Category:1950 births
Category:Living people
Category:American Rhodes scholars
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Category:Yale Law School alumni
Category:Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Category:United States district court judges appointed by Bill Clinton
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