Connor Fraley is a 3L at the University of North Carolina School of Law and will clerk for Judge Allison Jones Rushing on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. During law school, he served as President of the Federalist Society, Articles Editor at the North Carolina Law Review, and as a Blackstone Fellow. Connor gained appellate advocacy experience through roles in the Mississippi Solicitor General’s office, the U.S. Attorney’s Appellate Division (Eastern District of North Carolina), the UNC Supreme Court Program, and with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He also worked as a summer associate in D.C. and serves on the Appellate Rules Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association. Connor’s forthcoming note will be published in the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from NC State University with four undergraduate degrees and was a bar-certified paralegal before and during law school.