justice anthony kennedy, judge robert bourque, professor john harris at virginia law school, judge ray randolph, judge alice, judge janis rodgers brown and judge carlos beya. as our guest this evening that is joining this distinguished group of judges and professors is of course the honestly brett kavanagh. as you all know he's a judge of the united states court of appeal for the district of columbia circuit. he was appointed by george w. bush and took office on the 30th of may, 2006. before his appointment to the court, judge kavanagh served for more than five years in the white house in various capacities. he began as an associate council and then senior associate counsel to the president and was assistant to the president and staff secretary up until the time later on of his appointment. during his career the judge has been a partner in private practice with the firm here in washington, d.c. he was been an attorney in the office of the solicitor general of the united states and he clerked for a number of distinguished judges justice kennedy for judge alice kosinski for the ninth circuit and

udge robert bourque, judge ray randolph. judge alice, judge janice rogers rown and judge carlos bea. as our guests this evening joining this distinguished group of judges and professors, is of course the honorable brett cavanagh. as you all know, he is a judge of the united states court of acourt of appeals for the districtor colombia circuit appointed by george w. bush and took office on may 30, 2006. before his appointment to the court, he served for more than five years in a white house in various capacities. he began as an associate council and was assistant to the president and staff secretary up until the time later on of his appointment. during his career, the judge has been a partner in private practice with the firm of kirkland and ellis in washington, d.c.. he has been an attorney in the office of the solicitor general of the united states and clerked for a number of distinguished judges, justice kennedy of the judge to have ninth circuit and the judge walter stapleton of the third circuit. he is a graduate of yale

look at the distinguished list of past speakers, justice kennedy, justice thomas, my colleague ray randolph, my former colleague judge janice rogers brown whom i miss greatly. i will admit that i've not been a regular attendee at the story lecture for the last two years because, as john malcolm of heritage knows, every year it seems to fall on the same night as basketball tryouts for the cyl girls basketball team i cochaired blessed sacrament school in d.c. this year i finally pulled rank and seniority and i moved the teams tryouts back tonight. so tonight i am with you. last night i was trying with limited success to get 47 -fifth and sixth grade girls to listen to me. [laughing] i will try not to use my coach voice with you tonight. the tryouts were good. we're going to have a good team. you are probably not here to hear about that, but coaching my daughters and the fifth and sixth grade girls possible team has been an up or part of my life for the last six years. it sometimes mentoring the winter unscrambling out of the courthouse to get to practice and sometimes i don't always transitio