Supreme Court Nominee Has Deep DC Roots

WASHINGTON, DC -- President Trump's pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has deep roots in D.C.

Kavanaugh was born in 1965 here in D.C., and even graduated from Georgetown Prep School and Mater Dei School. Kavanaugh, who was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in D.C. from 1998 through 2001, was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2006, and his wife Ashley is the town manager of Section 5 of Chevy Chase Village in Maryland, according to his biography U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit website.

Kavanaugh served on the Board of Directors of the D.C. Circuit Historical Society from 2010 until 2016, and he has frequently volunteered in the D.C. community. He has served meals as part of the St. Maria's Meals program at Catholic Charities in D.C., and he has tutored at the Washington Jesuit Academy and at J.O. Wilson Elementary School in Northeast. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Washington Jesuit Academy.

He is a regular lector at Blessed Sacramet Catholic Church in D.C., where he serves as a parishioner, and he coaches a number of girls basketball teams in the area.

Kavanaugh actually served as a law clerk to Kennedy, the justice he would be replacing, in 1993. And he was the associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in 1998 during the investigation into President Clinton.

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