Allison H. Eid

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit

The Honorable Allison H. Eid is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She chairs the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, and also serves on the Council of the American Law Institute. Prior to joining the Tenth Circuit, Judge Eid served as a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, where she chaired the Water Court Committee. Before being appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court, Judge Eid served as the Solicitor General of the State of Colorado, representing Colorado officials and agencies in state and federal court.  She was also a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School, teaching Constitutional Law, Legislation, and Torts, and writing and speaking on the topic of federalism. Judge Eid practiced commercial and appellate litigation with the Denver office of Arnold & Porter. She clerked for the Honorable Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Houston, Texas. She graduated in 1991 with High Honors from The University of Chicago Law School, where she was Articles Editor of The University of Chicago Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Judge Eid earned her bachelor’s degree in American Studies (With Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa) from Stanford University in 1987. Prior to law school, she served as a Special Assistant and Speechwriter to U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett.  She studied comparative law in London as a Temple Bar scholar and served on the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, established by Congress in 1955 to prepare the official history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Eid grew up in Spokane, Washington. She and Troy, her husband of 35 years, have two children.

 

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