Matt Hornung
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Matt Hornung is a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Next year, he will serve as a law clerk on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire.
Matt received his J.D. from Cornell Law School, where he worked as a research assistant to Professor Maggie Gardner, a Publishing Editor for Cornell Law Review, a Managing Editor for the Legal Information Institute’s Supreme Court Bulletin, and an Executive Guest Editor for the Texas Review of Law and Politics.
Prior to law school, Matt graduated with highest honors from Lehigh University with a B.S. in Business & Economics and a B.A. in Music. While at Lehigh, Matt published original research on the effectiveness of the Coordinated Entry System, the Department of Health and Human Services’s resource-prioritization program for social services agencies.
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