Allison H. Eid

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American judge (born 1965)

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::summary American judge (born 1965) ::

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Field	Value
name	Allison Eid
image	Allison H. Eid (cropped).jpg
office	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
appointer	Donald Trump
term_start	November 3, 2017
predecessor	Neil Gorsuch
office1	Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
appointer1	Bill Owens
term_start1	March 13, 2006
term_end1	November 3, 2017
predecessor1	Rebecca Love Kourlis
successor1	Melissa Hart
office2	Solicitor General of Colorado
governor2	Bill Owens
term_start2	2005
term_end2	2006
predecessor2	Alan Gilbert
successor2	Daniel D. Domenico
birth_name	Allison Lynn Hartwell
birth_date
birth_place	Seattle, Washington, U.S.
spouse	Troy Eid
education	University of Idaho (attended)
Stanford University (BA)
University of Chicago (JD)
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Early life and education

Born in Seattle and raised in Spokane, Washington, by a single mother, Eid initially attended the University of Idaho before transferring to Stanford University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies with distinction in 1987 and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After graduating, she served as a special assistant and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan secretary of education, William Bennett. She left the Department of Education to attend the University of Chicago Law School, where she was an articles editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. She graduated in 1991 with a J.D. degree with high honors and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

Career

After graduating from law school, Eid served as a law clerk for Judge Jerry Edwin Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and then for justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States. After completing her clerkships, she went on to become a commercial and appellate litigator at the law firm of Arnold & Porter. In 1998, she left Arnold & Porter to serve as an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School, where she taught courses on constitutional law, torts, and federalism.

Colorado Solicitor General and Supreme Court of Colorado service

In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Eid to serve on the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, which writes the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and sponsors the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture. In 2005, Republican Colorado attorney general John Suthers appointed Eid to serve as Solicitor General of Colorado. A year later, Colorado governor Bill Owens appointed Eid to serve as the 95th justice of the Colorado Supreme Court on February 15, 2006. She took office on March 13, 2006. In 2008, 75% of Colorado voters voted to retain Eid on the Supreme Court.

In May 2017, Eid found that imposing an eighty-four year sentence on a fifteen-year-old murderer did not violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition on sentencing juveniles to life without parole because the punishment was styled as an aggregate term-of-years sentence. In May 2016, she was included on President Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme Court justices.

Federal judicial service

On June 7, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Eid to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, to the seat vacated by Judge Neil Gorsuch, who was elevated to the United States Supreme Court. On September 20, 2017, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On October 26, 2017, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–9 vote. On November 1, 2017, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 56–42 vote. On November 2, 2017, her nomination was confirmed by a 56–41 vote. She received her judicial commission the next day. She sworn in on November 4, 2017.

Personal life

Eid met her husband, Troy Eid, when he was standing in line at a Stanford University dorm cafeteria while she was working as a student food service worker and he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily; she later said: "It was love at first sight in the meal card line." In 2006, a few months after Allison Eid was appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court, President George W. Bush appointed Troy Eid as the 41st United States attorney for the District of Colorado and the first Egyptian-American U.S. attorney in the country's history. The Eids reside in Morrison, Colorado, with their son Alex and daughter Emily.

Selected scholarly works

Electoral history

References

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Kyle Henley. (February 16, 2006). "Conservative picked for bench". [[Colorado Springs Gazette]].
"Gorsuch-like Nominee Eid 'Inspiration' as Working Mother".
"Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees". United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
"Nominee Report". [[Alliance for Justice]].
"Allison Hartwell Eid – Adjunct Faculty". [[University of Colorado Law School]].
(May 23, 2002). "President Bush Appoints CU-Boulder Law Professor To Oliver Wendell Holmes Committee". [[University of Colorado Law School]].
(July 30, 2005). "Allison Eid is new Colorado Solicitor General". [[University of Colorado Law School]].
"Colorado Supreme Court 2008 Election Results". [[Denver Post]].
(May 2017). "Official Publication of the Abstract of Votes Cast". [[Colorado Secretary of State]].
Note. (2018). "Recent Case: Colorado Supreme Court Holds that Aggregate Term-of-Years Sentences Can Never Implicate Eighth Amendment Restrictions on Juvenile Life Without Parole". [[Harvard Law Review.
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(June 7, 2017). "Presidential Nomination 585, 115th United States Congress". [[United States Congress]].
(September 20, 2017). "Nominations – United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary".
"Results of Executive Business Meeting – October 26, 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee".
(November 1, 2017). "On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture Re: Allison H. Eid, of Colorado, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit)". United States Senate.
(November 2, 2017). "On the Nomination (Confirmation Allison H. Eid, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit)". United States Senate.
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(November 4, 2017). "Appointment of Honorable Allison Eid to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals".
Sara Burnett. (September 28, 2006). "U.S. attorney craves tasks". [[Rocky Mountain News]].
(June 10, 2006). "Bush nominates Troy Eid as U.S. attorney for Colorado". [[Casper Star Tribune]].
"Faculty Profile – Troy A. Eid". [[University of Denver]] [[Sturm College of Law]].
(July 2017). "Justice Allison H. Eid (CO)". [[Project Vote Smart]].
(June 29, 2009). "Official Publication of the Abstract of Votes Cast for the 2008 Primary, 2008 General".

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