Check That Off My Bucket List: SMU Dedman Law Alumni at SCOTUS

“Equal Justice Under Law.” Standing at the bottom of the steep marble stairs looking up at the stately building beyond which bears that inscription was, for many of us who were there, a true bucket list moment. The sun shining through the clouds and gleaming off the classical Corinthian columns perfectly matched the mood of the morning.

Eleven SMU Dedman School of Law alumni and the school’s dean were sworn in before the Supreme Court in a live ceremony before all nine justices. The movant supporting their applications for admission was G. Michael Gruber (’81) who has argued before the high court twice, and the applicants were James L. Baldwin (’86), Vicki D. Blanton (’91), Darwin J. Bruce (’95), Jordan C. Campbell (’13), Ashley L. Cook (’00), Clement Osimetha (’95), Amy N. Osteen (‘00), Jennifer L. Ryback (’10), David C. Schulte (’02), Hope C. Shimabuku (’05) and Clay G. Small (’75), together with Jason P. Nance, Judge James Noel Dean at SMU Dedman School of Law.