Michael William McConnell (born May 18, 1955) is an American jurist and legal scholar who served as a United States circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 to 2009. Since 2009, McConnell has been a professor and Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. He is also a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and Senior Of Counsel to the Litigation Practice Group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. In May 2020, Facebook appointed him to its content oversight board. In 2020, McConnell published The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution (Princeton University Press).
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Stanford Constitutional Law CenterDirector · 2009–present
- S.J. Quinney College of Law of the University of UtahProfessor · 1997–2002
Professor · 1985–1996
U.S. Department of JusticeAssistant to the solicitor general · 1983–1985- Office of Management and BudgetAssistant general counsel · 1981–1983
Law clerk , Hon. William J. Brennan · 1980–1981
Law clerk , Hon. J. Skelly Wright · 1979–1980
Appointments
2002–2009 · Appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)Term ended: Resignation
Education
- J.D. · 1979
- Michigan State UniversityB.A. · 1976