DJ profiles Justice Danner

Today's DJ profiles the 6th DCA's Justice Danner in Curiosity and Core Legal Skills: Justice Allison Danner taught herself a new field of law.

• she loves legal analysis and legal writing, and has the experience of working as a clerk in two federal appellate courts for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Justice John T. Noonan Jr.
• “I write my own opinions and did that when I was a law clerk” in the late 1990s, she said. “To me, that’s a huge pleasure.”
• Danner’s parents moved to California from her birthplace, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and she grew up in Palo Alto. Her mother is a retired teacher, her sister is a high school teacher in Oakland and her father worked as an engineer. Danner attended Williams College in Massachusetts, worked as a paralegal, then graduated from Stanford Law School in 1997. After her clerkships she started her academic career as a law school lecturer at Stanford. She was a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School from 2001 to 2007 while also teaching at UCLA School of Law and Harvard Law School.