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Georgetown Law Alumna to Serve as Supreme Court Clerk

July 1, 2025 Campus News Our Alumni

The fifth Georgetown Law graduate in nine years has secured a Supreme Court clerkship. Kate Hardiman Rhodes, L’22, will clerk for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett during the October 2025 term. A graduate of Georgetown Law’s evening program, Rhodes worked at a D.C. litigation firm while pursuing her law degree. She is the fourth evening student to clerk for the Supreme Court since 2016.

Professor John Copacino, Prettyman alumnus and longtime director of the Prettyman Program and the Criminal Justice Clinic, speaking at the anniversary dinner.

Georgetown Law’s Prettyman Fellowship Marks 65 Years of Preparing Lawyers to Defend the Underrepresented

June 20, 2025 Campus News Clinics Criminal Law Faculty Impacting Change Juveniles Our Alumni Public Interest & Community Service

In 1960, Georgetown Law founded the E. Barrett Prettyman Program, which was – and still is – an innovative fellowship that trains recent law school graduates to represent indigent clients. On May 31, dozens of Prettyman alumni, along with other friends and supporters, gathered on campus to celebrate the program’s 65th anniversary and to congratulate one of its longtime leaders, Professor John Copacino, L’83, on his retirement.