Exciting news! I can announce today that Mattone Center alum Dan Vitagliano will clerk for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States in October Term 2027. Dan, who graduated from St. John’s Law summa cum laude in 2020, was a student fellow in the Mattone Center for two years, 2018-2019 and 2019-2020, and is the first graduate of St. John’s ever to be selected for a Supreme Court clerkship.

Following graduation, Dan clerked for Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil ’83 of the Southern District of New York and Judge Kyle Duncan of the Fifth Circuit, and worked as a Constitutional Law Fellow at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, where he litigated constitutional cases involving religious liberty and free speech in federal and state courts. He is currently an associate at Consovoy McCarthy in DC.

I’ll have more about Dan in a future post, but for now I just want to say how happy and proud all of us at the Mattone Center are for him. I’m sure my former colleague and co-director of the Center, Marc DeGirolami, joins us. Congratulations, Dan!