Please join the Federalist Society for a Fireside Chat with Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod.

Judge Elrod has served as a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for the past fourteen years. Prior to serving as a Circuit Judge, Judge Elrod was appointed and then twice elected Judge of the 190th District Court of Harris County, Texas, where she spent over five years presiding over more than 200 jury and non-jury trials.

Judge Elrod graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an active member of the Harvard Federalist Society, an Ames Moot Court finalist, and a Senior Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.  She clerked for the Honorable Sim Lake in the Southern District of Texas.

Before serving as a judge, Judge Elrod worked in private practice, focusing on civil litigation, antitrust, and employment matters. She has been repeatedly recognized for her work as a jurist, as well as for her pro bono work and contributions to the community.  She has been named the 2018 Harvard Federalist Society’s Alumni of the Year, the 2016–17 Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists’ Appellate Judge of the Year, and the 2008 Mexican-American Bar Association of Texas’s Judge of the Year.