I was pleased to see the Alabama Law Review publish a symposium celebrating Chief Judge Pryor’s twenty years on the bench. There are articles by Justice Thomas, Attorney General Sessions, and several Pryor staffers and trainees who later became judges. His achievements are extraordinary. Pryor, a graduate of Tulane University School of Law, is proof of how overrated an Ivy League diploma is. Pryor was one of President Bush’s most influential nominees on the circuit — at least among those who did not advance to the Supreme Court. (Another member of the list attended Ohio State University.)
I encourage you to read through these articles. They’re brief, humorous, and clever–exactly what we’ve come to expect from Pryor’s friends.
Chief Judge William H. Pryor, Jr.: Tribute to two decades on the bench
Kenneth M. Rosen, An Academic Judge: The Honorable William Holcombe Pryor Jr.
Dear. Clarence Thomas, my friend bill
Dear Ed Kearns, Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr. serves as Chief Judge
she. Jeff Sessions, A man of law, principle and courage
Dear. Steven T. Marshall and Edmund G. Lacour, Jr., Attorney General William H. Pryor, Jr.
Dear. Andrew Brasher, From clerk to colleague
Dear. Kevin C. Newsom and the Hon. Corey L. Maze, Chief Justice William H. Pryor, Jr.: A Man, a Mentor, and a Gentleman
Dear. Anna M. Manasco, “You can do better”
Dear. Sarah K. Campbell, William H. Pryor, Jr.: A Paragon of Judicial Virtue
Molly Glazner, Taylor Meehan, Kasdin Mitchell and Hon. Katherine Mizell, Monday BBQ
Caroline Stephens Milner, From a clerk’s perspective
