:Allison H. Eid

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Allison H. Eid

| image = Allison H. Eid (cropped).jpg

| office = Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

| term_start = November 3, 2017

| term_end =

| appointer = Donald Trump

| predecessor = Neil Gorsuch

| successor =

| office1 = Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court

| appointer1 = Bill Owens

| term_start1 = March 13, 2006

| term_end1 = November 3, 2017

| predecessor1 = Rebecca Love Kourlis

| successor1 = Melissa Hart

| office2 = Solicitor General of Colorado

| 1blankname2 = Attorney General

| 1namedata2 = John Suthers

| term_start2 = 2005

| term_end2 = 2006

| predecessor2 = Alan Gilbert

| successor2 = Daniel D. Domenico

| birth_name = Allison Lynn Hartwell

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1965|1|}}

| birth_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| spouse = Troy Eid

| education = Stanford University (BA)
University of Chicago (JD)

}}

Allison Lynn Hartwell Eid (born January 7, 1965) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since 2017. She previously served as an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from 2006 to 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.courts.state.co.us/Bio.cfm?Employee_ID=70|title=Allison H. Eid|publisher=Colorado Supreme Court|access-date=April 6, 2011}}

Early life and education

Born in Seattle and raised in Spokane, Washington,{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20060216/ai_n16153250/|title=Conservative picked for bench|work=Colorado Springs Gazette|date=February 16, 2006|author=Kyle Henley}} by a single mother,{{cite web|url=https://www.bna.com/gorsuchlike-nominee-eid-n73014461811/|title=Gorsuch-like Nominee Eid 'Inspiration' as Working Mother|website=www.bna.com}} Eid initially attended the University of Idaho before transferring to Stanford University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies with distinction in 1987 and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.{{cite web |title=Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees |url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Eid%20SJQ.pdf |publisher=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary |access-date=December 12, 2024}} After graduating, she served as a special assistant and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan{{'s}} secretary of education, William Bennett.{{cite news |url=https://www.afj.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AFJ-Eid-Report.pdf |access-date=9 July 2018 |title=Nominee Report |publisher=Alliance for Justice |archive-date=March 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312184812/https://www.afj.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AFJ-Eid-Report.pdf |url-status=dead }} She left the Department of Education to attend the University of Chicago Law School, where she was an articles editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. She graduated in 1991 with a Juris Doctor with high honors and was elected to the Order of the Coif.{{cite web|url=http://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=17|title=Allison Hartwell Eid – Adjunct Faculty|publisher=University of Colorado Law School|access-date=April 6, 2011}}

Career

After graduating from law school, Eid served as a law clerk for Judge Jerry Edwin Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and then for justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States. After completing her clerkships, she went on to become a commercial and appellate litigator at the law firm of Arnold & Porter. In 1998, she left Arnold & Porter to serve as an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School, where she taught courses on constitutional law, torts, and federalism.

=Colorado Solicitor General and Supreme Court of Colorado service=

In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Eid to serve on the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, which writes the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and sponsors the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture.{{cite news|url=http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2002/274.html |title=President Bush Appoints CU-Boulder Law Professor To Oliver Wendell Holmes Committee |publisher=University of Colorado Law School |date=May 23, 2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118203455/http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2002/274.html |archive-date=November 18, 2011 }} In 2005, Republican Colorado attorney general John Suthers appointed Eid to serve as Solicitor General of Colorado.{{cite news|url=http://lawweb.colorado.edu/news/showArticle.jsp?id=91|title=Allison Eid is new Colorado Solicitor General|publisher=University of Colorado Law School|date=July 30, 2005}} A year later, Colorado governor Bill Owens appointed Eid to serve as the 95th justice of the Colorado Supreme Court on February 15, 2006. She took office on March 13, 2006. In 2008, 75% of Colorado voters voted to retain Eid on the Supreme Court.{{cite news|url=http://data.denverpost.com/election/results/supreme-court/2008/|title=Colorado Supreme Court 2008 Election Results|work=Denver Post|access-date=April 6, 2011|archive-date=August 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814080648/http://data.denverpost.com/election/results/supreme-court/2008/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/ElectionArchives/2008/2008_Abstract.pdf |title=Official Publication of the Abstract of Votes Cast |publisher=Colorado Secretary of State |access-date=April 6, 2011 |page=119 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

In May 2017, Eid found that imposing an eighty-four year sentence on a fifteen-year-old murderer did not violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition on sentencing juveniles to life without parole because the punishment was styled as an aggregate term-of-years sentence.{{Bluebook journal |first=|last=Note| title=Recent Case: Colorado Supreme Court Holds that Aggregate Term-of-Years Sentences Can Never Implicate Eighth Amendment Restrictions on Juvenile Life Without Parole| volume=131 | journal=Harv. L. Rev. | page=1187 | url=https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1187-1194_Online.pdf| year=2018}}{{cite court |litigants=Lucero v. People|vol=394 |reporter=P.3d |opinion=1128|court=Colo.|date=2017|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3958433295805431143}} In May 2016, she was included on President Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme Court justices.{{cite news|last1=COLVIN |first1=JILL |title=TRUMP UNVEILS LIST OF HIS TOP SUPREME COURT PICKS |url=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_TRUMP_SUPREME_COURT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-05-18-14-08-40 |access-date=May 18, 2016 |agency=Associated Press |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519104509/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_TRUMP_SUPREME_COURT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-05-18-14-08-40 |archive-date=May 19, 2016 }}

=Federal judicial service=

On June 7, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Eid to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, to the seat vacated by Judge Neil Gorsuch, who was elevated to the United States Supreme Court.{{cite web|url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/06/07/president-donald-j-trump-announces-judicial-candidate-nominations|via=National Archives|work=whitehouse.gov|title=President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial Candidate Nominations}}{{cite web|url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/06/07/twelve-nominations-sent-senate-today|via=National Archives|work=whitehouse.gov|title=Twelve Nominations Sent to the Senate Today}}{{cite web |title=Presidential Nomination 585, 115th United States Congress |date=June 7, 2017|url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/115th-congress/585|publisher=United States Congress|access-date=June 30, 2018}} On September 20, 2017, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.{{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/09/20/2017/nominations|title=Nominations – United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|website=www.judiciary.senate.gov|date=September 20, 2017 }} On October 26, 2017, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–9 vote.{{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/10-26-17%20Results%20of%20Executive%20Business%20Meeting.pdf|title=Results of Executive Business Meeting – October 26, 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee}} On November 1, 2017, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 56–42 vote.{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1151/vote_115_1_00258.htm|title=On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture Re: Allison H. Eid, of Colorado, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit)|publisher=United States Senate|date=November 1, 2017}} On November 2, 2017, her nomination was confirmed by a 56–41 vote.{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1151/vote_115_1_00259.htm|title=On the Nomination (Confirmation Allison H. Eid, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit)|publisher=United States Senate|date=November 2, 2017}} She received her judicial commission the next day.{{FJC Bio|nid=3989726|inline=yes}} She sworn in on November 4, 2017.{{Cite web|date=November 4, 2017|title=Appointment of Honorable Allison Eid to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals|url=https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/ce/news/appointment-honorable-allison-eid-tenth-circuit-court-appeals|website=United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit|access-date=May 27, 2023}}

Personal life

Eid met her husband, Troy Eid, when he was standing in line at a Stanford University dorm cafeteria while she was working as a student food service worker and he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily; she later said: "It was love at first sight in the meal card line."{{cite news|title=U.S. attorney craves tasks|work=Rocky Mountain News|date=September 28, 2006|page=20A|author=Sara Burnett}} In 2006, a few months after Allison Eid was appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court, President George W. Bush appointed Troy Eid as the 41st United States attorney for the District of Colorado and the first Egyptian-American U.S. attorney in the country's history.{{cite news|url=http://www.trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_83609279-8867-5058-ba53-6d78c43b5d4d.html|title=Bush nominates Troy Eid as U.S. attorney for Colorado|work=Casper Star Tribune|date=June 10, 2006|agency=Associated Press}}{{cite web|url=http://law.du.edu/index.php/profile/troy-eid|title=Faculty Profile – Troy A. Eid|publisher=University of Denver Sturm College of Law|access-date=April 6, 2011}} The Eids reside in Morrison, Colorado, with their son Alex and daughter Emily.{{cite web|url=http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=MCO17276 |title=Justice Allison H. Eid (CO) |publisher=Project Vote Smart |access-date=April 6, 2011 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Selected scholarly works

{{cite journal | first = Allison H. | last = Eid | title = Federalism and Formalism | journal = William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal | volume = 11 | issue = 3 | year = 2003 | pages = 1191–1237 | url = https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1296&context=wmborj }}
{{cite journal | first = Allison H. | last = Eid | title = The Property Clause and New Federalism | journal = University of Colorado Law Review | volume = 75 | issue = 4 | year = 2004 | pages = 1241–1260 | url = }}
{{cite journal | first = Allison H. | last = Eid | title = Preemption and the Federalism Five | journal = Rutgers Law Journal | volume = 37 | issue = 1 | year = 2005 | pages = 1–38| url = }}

Electoral history

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| title = Colorado Supreme Court – Retain Allison H. Eid, November 4, 2008{{cite web|title=Official Publication of the Abstract of Votes Cast for the 2008 Primary, 2008 General|url=https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/Results/Abstract/pdf/2000-2099/2008AbstractBook.pdf|date=June 29, 2009|website=Office of the Secretary of State of Colorado|access-date=May 10, 2018}}

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Nonpartisan politician

| candidate = Yes

| votes = 1,338,571

| percentage = 74.58%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Nonpartisan politician

| candidate = No

| votes = 456,337

| percentage = 25.42%

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{{Election box majority no change

| votes = 882,234

| percentage = 49.16%

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 1,794,908

| percentage = 100.00%

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References

External links

{{FJC Bio|nid=3989726}}
[https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/judges/judge-allison-h.-eid Biography at Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals]
{{Ballotpedia|Allison_Eid|Allison Eid}}
{{C-SPAN|109926}}
[https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Eid%20SJQ.pdf Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees] for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
[https://fedsoc.org/contributors/allison-eid-1 Contributor profile] from the Federalist Society

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{{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court}}|years=2006–2017}}

{{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit}}|years=2017–present}}

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