Allison Eid | |
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| Judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit | |
| Assumed office November 3, 2017 | |
| Appointed by | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Neil Gorsuch |
| Associate Justice of theColorado Supreme Court | |
| In office March 13, 2006 – November 3, 2017 | |
| Appointed by | Bill Owens |
| Preceded by | Rebecca Love Kourlis |
| Succeeded by | Melissa Hart |
| Solicitor General of Colorado | |
| In office 2005–2006 | |
| Governor | Bill Owens |
| Preceded by | Alan Gilbert |
| Succeeded by | Daniel D. Domenico |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Allison Lynn Hartwell 1965 (age 60–61) Seattle,Washington, U.S. |
| Spouse | Troy Eid |
| Education | University of Idaho (attended) Stanford University (BA) University of Chicago (JD) |
Allison Lynn Hartwell Eid (born 1965)[1] is an American lawyer who serves as aUnited States circuit judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since 2017. She previously served as an associate justice of theColorado Supreme Court from 2006 to 2017.[2]
Born inSeattle and raised inSpokane, Washington,[3] by a single mother,[4] Eid initially attended theUniversity of Idaho before transferring toStanford University, where she earned herBachelor of Arts degree inAmerican studies withdistinction in 1987 and was a member of thePhi Beta Kappahonor society.[5] After graduating, she served as a special assistant andspeechwriter toPresidentRonald Reagan'ssecretary of education,William Bennett.[6] She left theDepartment of Education to attend theUniversity of Chicago Law School, where she was an articles editor of theUniversity of Chicago Law Review. She graduated in 1991 with aJ.D. degree with high honors and was elected to theOrder of the Coif.[2][7]
After graduating from law school, Eid served as alaw clerk for JudgeJerry Edwin Smith of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and then for justiceClarence Thomas of theSupreme Court of the United States.[6] After completing her clerkships, she went on to become a commercial and appellatelitigator at thelaw firm ofArnold & Porter.[6] In 1998, she left Arnold & Porter to serve as anassociate professor of law at theUniversity of Colorado Law School, where she taught courses onconstitutional law,torts, andfederalism.[2][7]
In 2002, PresidentGeorge W. Bush appointed Eid to serve on the Permanent Committee for theOliver Wendell Holmes Devise, which writes the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and sponsors the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture.[2][7][8] In 2005,Republican Colorado attorney generalJohn Suthers appointed Eid to serve asSolicitor General of Colorado.[9] A year later,Colorado governorBill Owens appointed Eid to serve as the 95th justice of theColorado Supreme Court on February 15, 2006.[2] She took office on March 13, 2006. In 2008, 75% of Colorado voters voted toretain Eid on the Supreme Court.[10][11]
In May 2017, Eid found that imposing an eighty-four year sentence on a fifteen-year-old murderer did not violate the Constitution'sEighth Amendment prohibition on sentencing juveniles tolife without parole because the punishment was styled as an aggregate term-of-years sentence.[12][13] In May 2016, she was included on PresidentDonald Trump'slist of potential Supreme Court justices.[14]
On June 7, 2017, PresidentDonald Trump nominated Eid to serve as a United States circuit judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, to the seat vacated by JudgeNeil Gorsuch, who was elevated to theUnited States Supreme Court.[15][16][17] On September 20, 2017, a hearing on her nomination was held before theSenate Judiciary Committee.[18] On October 26, 2017, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–9 vote.[19] On November 1, 2017, theUnited States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 56–42 vote.[20] On November 2, 2017, her nomination was confirmed by a 56–41 vote.[21] She received her judicial commission the next day.[22] She sworn in on November 4, 2017.[23]
Eid met her husband,Troy Eid, when he was standing in line at aStanford University dorm cafeteria while she was working as a studentfood service worker and he waseditor-in-chief of the student newspaper,The Stanford Daily; she later said: "It was love at first sight in the meal card line."[24] In 2006, a few months after Allison Eid was appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court,PresidentGeorge W. Bush appointed Troy Eid as the 41stUnited States attorney for theDistrict of Colorado and the firstEgyptian-American U.S. attorney in the country's history.[2][25][26] The Eids reside inMorrison, Colorado, with their son Alex and daughter Emily.[27]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Nonpartisan | Yes | 1,338,571 | 74.58% | |
| Nonpartisan | No | 456,337 | 25.42% | |
| Majority | 882,234 | 49.16% | ||
| Total votes | 1,794,908 | 100.00% | ||
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| Preceded by | Associate Justice of theColorado Supreme Court 2006–2017 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit 2017–present | Incumbent |
