Dallas, Texas, Jul 25, 2018 / 14:45 pm
Federal appeals judge Amy Barrett, who was on the short-list this month for a possible appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, will headline the convention of a national association of Catholic attorneys this October.
Barrett, a judge on the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, will speak at the the Catholic Bar Association's third annual meeting, which will coincide with the Oct. 13 Red Mass of the Diocese of Dallas. Barrett is a Catholic, the mother of seven children, and was formerly a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame.
Other speakers at the two-day conference include Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, Bishop Edward Burns of Dallas, and author Mary Rice Hasson.
The Catholic Bar Association was established in 2015 by Missouri attorney Joshua McCaig. Its inaugural conference drew more 200 attorneys, law students, and judges from 27 states, according to the Catholic Key.