Ruth Payne
- Senior Director of Judicial Clerkships
Ruth Payne is the senior director of judicial clerkships. She graduated valedictorian from Claremont McKenna College in 1997. In 2002, she received her J.D. from the Law School, where she was an articles editor for the Virginia Law Review and served on the board of the Public Interest Law Association and as president of the Jewish Law Students Association. She graduated Order of the Coif and was awarded the Shannon Award at graduation. After graduation, Payne clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and completed a one-year Bristow Fellowship with the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States. From 2004-08, she was an honors attorney with the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, where she worked in the Office of International Affairs.
Education
- J.D.University of Virginia School of Law2002
- B.A.Claremont McKenna College1997
Faculty in the News
Megan T. Stevenson, What the Legal System Gets Wrong About Jailing People Awaiting Trial (The Appeal)
Saikrishna Prakash, Targeting Trump Post-Presidency, the House’s Lawsuits Are Still Dragging Out in Court (The National Law Journal)
John C. Jeffries Jr., George Floyd Trial Centers on Police Tactic That Is Hard to Prosecute (The Wall Street Journal)
Jennifer L. Givens, Deirdre M. Enright, Opinion: Virginia Must Bolster Access to Police Investigations (The Virginian-Pilot)
