Tara Leigh Grove

Grove earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, summa cum laude, from Duke University. She spent a year teaching English in Japan and earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. In law school, Grove worked as the Supreme Court chair of the Harvard Law Review.^[1]

Grove served as a law clerk for Judge Emilio Garza before working for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division for four years.^[2][3] Grove began teaching at the Florida State University College of Law in 2009, and joined the faculty of the College of William & Mary in 2011, where she was named Mills E. Godwin, Jr. Professor of Law.^[4] In 2020, Grove accepted an appointment as the Charles E. Tweedy, Jr. Endowed Chairholder in Law at the University of Alabama School of Law.^[5][6] She served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.^[7][8] In summer 2022, Grove left the University of Alabama School of Law for the University of Texas School of Law, where she currently serves as the Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law.^[9]