Amelia Ashton Thorn is the inaugural fellow at the Bolch Judicial Institute. She clerked for Justice Don R. Willett of the Texas Supreme Court (now of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) as well as for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She subsequently worked as an associate at Williams & Connolly and Crowell & Moring, as well as an assistant general counsel at the American Chemistry Council, one of the nation’s oldest and largest trade associations.

Written by Amelia Ashton Thorn

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Judicature: A Decade at Duke

Vol. 109 No. 1 (2025) | Celebrating a Decade at Duke
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Problem-Solving Courts Today: An Introduction

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