Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff; Adjunct Professor of Law
Melissa N. Patterson
B.S., University of Southern California; B.A., University of Southern California; J.D., Harvard
B.S., University of Southern California; B.A., University of Southern California; J.D., Harvard
Professor Patterson has been an attorney with the Appellate Staff of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division since 2007. She has been lead counsel for the government in over forty appeals and has argued thirty cases in federal and state courts of appeals. She clerked for Judge Raymond C. Fisher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.