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Carrie Campbell Severino is an American lawyer and conservative political activist serving as president of the Concord Fund (formerly the Judicial Crisis Network, or JCN). She has been a key figure in campaigns to confirm conservative judges, including Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. Severino is the co-author, with Mollie Hemingway, of the bestselling book 'Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court.' A frequent media commentator, she has appeared over 100 times on television during the Kavanaugh confirmation alone, on networks including FOX, CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and ABC’s This Week. She writes and speaks on judicial issues such as constitutional limits on government, federal nominations, and state judicial selection, has testified before Congress, briefed U.S. Senators, and filed amicus briefs in high-profile Supreme Court cases. Severino began her legal career clerking for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She was raised in Kent County, Michigan, by devout Catholic parents and is herself a devout Catholic. She met her husband, Roger Severino—a lawyer who served as Director of the Office for Civil Rights at HHS and is also devoutly Catholic—at Harvard Law School; they have six children and reside in the Washington, DC metro area. Since 2010, she has led the organization as chief counsel and policy director, shifting focus to state and local judicial campaigns.
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