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Nicole Frazer '15 to Clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia

By Kimberly Reich

Nicole Frazer

Nicole Frazer '15

Nicole Frazer ’15 will clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia during the 2016-17 term.

“I am thrilled to have been given such a significant opportunity this early on in my legal career,” Frazer said. “When you have an opportunity like this, you realize how many different people have invested in you and helped you get where you are. It was incredibly exciting to share the good news with family and friends, but it was also immensely rewarding to tell the professors who have invested in me and paved the way for this accomplishment.

“I've had so many fantastic professors here, as well as UVA Law alumni and past clerks, who helped me through the entire process. I'm enormously grateful for that,” she added.

Frazer is currently clerking for a year with Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Columbus, Ohio.

At the Law School, Frazer was an articles development editor for the Virginia Law Review and a member of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Virginia Law Women, the Federalist Society and the Law Christian Fellowship.

She also served as a research assistant to Professor A. E. Dick Howard ’61, himself a former Supreme Court law clerk (for Justice Hugo L. Black). 

 “Nicole was uncommonly helpful to me as I shaped a law review article on how the Supreme Court has changed since the days of Earl Warren,” Howard said. “She is blessed with a first-class mind, a flair for research and analysis, and an impressive talent for presenting her findings. Her scholarship would do justice to a seasoned scholar. Justice Scalia will quickly discover what a good decision he has made in bringing her on board.”