Patrick J. Schiltz

Schiltz was born in 1960, in Duluth, Minnesota, and grew up there.^[1] He graduated from the College of St. Scholastica in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in history with a minor in sociology.^[2] He was a legislative aide to U.S. Senator David Durenberger from 1981 to 1982, then attended Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.^[1][3] He graduated in 1985 with a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude.^[2]

After law school, Schiltz was a law clerk from 1985 to 1986 to Antonin Scalia, who was then a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Schiltz had accepted an offer to clerk for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court the next year, but in July 1986, shortly before Schiltz's clerkship with Scalia ended, President Ronald Reagan nominated Scalia to the Supreme Court. Scalia asked Schiltz to help him prepare for his confirmation hearings, and after Scalia was confirmed, he asked Schiltz to clerk for him during his first year on the Supreme Court. With O'Connor's permission, Schiltz clerked for Scalia at the Supreme Court from 1986 to 1987.^[1][2]

Following his clerkships, Schiltz joined the law firm Faegre & Benson (now part of Faegre Drinker) in Minneapolis.^[3] He represented the National Football League, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Minnesota Timberwolves in antitrust and contract law; the Star Tribune and other media clients in access and libel litigation; and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and other religious organizations in tort and employment matters.

Schiltz left private practice in 1995 to join the faculty of Notre Dame Law School, where he taught civil procedure, evidence, and sports law. While at Notre Dame, Schiltz wrote "On Being a Happy, Healthy, and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy, and Unethical Profession",^[4] one of the most widely read law-review articles ever published. The Vanderbilt Law Review published the article and made it the focus of a symposium, and an op-ed in the Washington Post later called the article one of nine works every law student should read.^[5] One of Schlitz's star students at Notre Dame was future Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett, whom Schiltz helped get a clerkship with Justice Scalia.^[2]

In 2000, Schiltz left Notre Dame to become the founding associate dean of the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minnesota. He had primary responsibility for almost every significant aspect of creating the school, from hiring the faculty to designing the building. In 2002, Schiltz was named the St. Thomas More Chair in Law, the first endowed chair at the School of Law.^[3]

From 1997 to 2006, Schiltz served as the Reporter to the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. Among those who served on the Committee during Schiltz’s tenure were future Supreme Court Justices John G. Roberts, Jr. and Samuel A. Alito, Jr.^[3]

• Schiltz, Patrick J. (1997). "Legal Ethics in Decline: The Elite Law Firm, the Elite Law School, and the Moral Formation of the Novice Attorney". Minnesota Law Review. 82 (3): 705–92.
• — (1999). "On Being a Happy, Healthy, and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy, and Unethical Profession". Vanderbilt Law Review. 52 (4): 871–951.
• — (2003). "The Impact of Clergy Sexual Misconduct Litigation on Religious Liberty". Boston College Law Review. 44 (4/5): 949–76.
• — (2005). "Much Ado About Little: Explaining the Sturm und Drang over the Citation of Unpublished Opinions". Washington and Lee Law Review. 62 (4): 1429–90.
• — (2005). "The Citation of Unpublished Opinions in the Federal Courts of Appeals". Fordham Law Review. 74 (1): 23–80.

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 9)