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Amy Coney Barrett is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, nominated on September 26, 2020 by President Donald Trump to replace Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Amy Coney Barrett was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 28, 1972. She moved to Indiana to attend Notre Dame Law School, where she graduated in 1997. She was stated by one of her professors to be “the smartest and most talented person to ever come through the University of Notre Dame Law School”. She clerked for conservative justice Antonin Scalia, then went on to private practice, then became a professor, teaching at Notre Dame Law School from 2002 to 2017. At that time, she was nominated by President Trump to serve on the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. When she was approved by the Senate on October 30, 2017, she became the first female to occupy an Indiana seat on the Circuit Court.

Barrett’s appointment to the Supreme Court came with great controversy, as the timing of the effort to fill her seat has caused great division within the already-politically divided country. However, President Trump and Senate Republicans were committed to working toward her being approved by the Senate and sworn into her seat as quickly as possible.

In addition to being a circuit court judge and nominee for the Supreme Court, Barrett is the mother of seven children, five by birth and two adopted from Haiti. She is a religious Catholic, and her faith has drawn criticism by some, but praise by others.