Mary Clare Theis

Mary Clare Theis is a second-year law student from East Lansing, Michigan. She earned a B.A. in Exercise Science on the pre-med track from Hope College. She then joined Teach For America, where she taught high school math in Indianapolis Public Schools and earned a Master’s in Teaching. Before law school, she also worked as a data specialist for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Blackstone Legal Fellowship. During her 1L summer, Mary Clare worked as a law clerk on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for Senator Mike Lee. At Notre Dame, she is a Murphy Fellow, the treasurer of the Federalist Society, the vice president of Jus Vitae, the treasurer of Legal Voices for Children, and a staff editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. After graduation, Mary Clare will clerk for the Honorable Joan L. Larsen on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.