Jane L. Kelly
| Jane Kelly | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit | |
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Assumed office April 25, 2013 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Michael Joseph Melloy |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Jane Louise Kelly 1964 (age 52–53) Greencastle, Indiana, U.S. |
| Education |
Duke University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
Jane Louise Kelly (born 1964) is a United States Circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Jane Louise Kelly was born in 1964, to Richard and Judith C. Kelly, and was raised in Greencastle, Indiana. She received a bachelor of arts degree, summa cum laude, in 1987, from Duke University, and a J.D. degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, in 1991. She studied pediatrics for one year in New Zealand under a Fulbright Scholarship in between Duke and Harvard. Her graduating class included Barack Obama, who became the 44th president of the United States.
After graduation, Kelly clerked for Donald J. Porter, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She then clerked for David R. Hansen, a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. During the 1993–94 academic year, Kelly taught as a visiting instructor at the University of Illinois College of Law, while also working on a LL.M. degree, which she did not complete, at the same institution.
Kelly became an assistant federal public defender in the Northern District of Iowa, in 1994 and served as the supervising attorney in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa office, from 1999 to 2013.
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