Ruth Payne
- Senior Director of Judicial Clerkships
Ruth Payne is the senior director of judicial clerkships. 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. Payne has been advising students about the clerkship process at UVA Law since 2008.
- J.D.University of Virginia School of Law2002
- B.A.Claremont McKenna College1997
Faculty in the News
Bertrall Ross, Trump Indictment Will Influence the Future of Politics, Experts Say (UVA Today)
Naomi R. Cahn, Opinion: What Parents Are Really Getting From the GOP’s ‘Parents’ Rights’ Agenda (CNN)
Saikrishna Prakash, Why This Indictment Can’t Stop Donald Trump From Being Elected President (TIME)
Saikrishna Prakash, Why Charges Against Trump Don’t Prevent Him From Running for President (The Hill)