Keith P. Ellison

Keith P. Ellison (born 1950 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a judge of the 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 Oxford where he studied at Magdalen College before earning his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.

After graduating from Yale, he 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 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 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

* [http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2822 Listing in Biographical Directory of Federal Judges]