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JEFFREY S. SUTTON
Jeffrey S. Sutton is a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He was the Chief Judge of that Court
from May 2021 through September 2026. Judge Sutton has served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Judicial
Conference of the United States, Chair of the Federal Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure,
Chair of the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, and Chair of the Supreme Court Fellows Commission.
Since 1993, he has been an adjunct professor at The Ohio State University College of Law, where he teaches seminars on State
Constitutional Law, the United States Supreme Court, and Appellate Advocacy. In 2027, in addition to continuing to handle his
judicial duties, he will join the College’s faculty as the Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence. Judge Sutton also teaches a
class on State Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School.
Among other publications, he is the author of Who Decides? States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation and
51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law. He is the co-author of a casebook, State
Constitutional Law: The Modern Experience, as well as The Law of Judicial Precedent. He is also the co-editor of The
Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law. In 2006, Judge Sutton was elected to the American Law
Institute, and in 2017 he was elected to its Council. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024.
