Women in the Law Resources - Advocates

The WIL Committee encourages JRCLS members to submit biographies of women in the law and of advocates for women in the law that can be posted on our website as a way of connecting JRCLS women members and of educating each other about the diverse and varied backgrounds of our members.  The WIL Committee hope that the biographies provided here of the members of the WIL Committee will encourage communications from JRCLS women members that can be shared on the WIL website and that will help the WIL Committee better serve the JRCLS women members.

Wendy C. Archibald
William F. Atkin
Mary Hoagland
Annette W. Jarvis
Melinda A. Morgan
Hannah C. Smith
Tiffany Smith

Hannah C. Smith

Hannah C. Smith received her A.B. from Princeton University in 1995, concentrating in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Following college, she served as a full-time LDS missionary in the Switzerland Geneva Mission. After marrying her college sweetheart, John M. Smith, she enrolled with her husband as a law student at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where she received her J.D. in 2001. She was Executive Editor of the BYU Law Review.

Hannah and her husband then clerked together for Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Following private practice in litigation in Washington D.C., she clerked at the United States Supreme Court for Justice Clarence Thomas during the 2003 October Term. After returning to private practice and working in support of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Hannah returned to the Court to clerk for Justice Alito during the October 2005 Term.

The mother of one daughter with another on the way, Hannah works part-time from home for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. She serves as a member of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society International Board, as Reunions Chair for her Princeton alumni class, as Relief Society President in her Northern Virginia ward, and as a class representative for her daughter’s preschool.

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