NJCHS 40TH ANNIVERSARY GALA 2026 | STUDENT REGISTRATION REGISTRATION TICKET

Judge Luttig served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for 15 years, from 1991 to 2006.

Judge Luttig was Counselor and Special Advisor to The Coca-Cola Company and the Board of Directors of the Coca-Cola Company from January 2021 to January 2025.

Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company Judge Luttig was Counselor and Senior Advisor to The Boeing Company CEO and The Boeing Company Board of Directors from January 2019 to January 2020 and Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Boeing Company from 2006 to 2020.

Before he was appointed to the Federal Bench by President George H.w. Bush in 1991, he served as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel and Counselor to the Attorney General of the United States at the U.S. Department of Justice 1990-1991. He was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice from 1989-1990.

He was Assistant Counsel to the President at The White House from 1981 to 1982 under President Ronald Reagan. From 1982 to 1983, he was a law clerk to then-Judge Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1983 to 1985, he served as a law clark and then Special Assistant to the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger.

Judge Luttig is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Franklin-Templeton Mutual Funds, a Trustee of the National Constitution Center, a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson/Monticello Foundation, a Member of the Board of Trustees of The Aspen Institute, a Member of the Board of the Society for the Rule of Law, Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Task Force for American Democracy, a Distinguished Fellow of the Karsh Institute of Democracy and the University of Virginia School of Law’s Karsh Center for Law and Democracy, a Senior Fellow of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, and a Member of the National Advisory Council of More Perfect.

Judge Luttig earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Lee University and his law degree from the University of Virginia.

Judge Luttig is married to Mrs. Elizabeth Luttig. The couple have two children, Morgan and John.

Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Prior to assuming this position he was the founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and a professor at Duke Law School, University of Southern California Law School, and DePaul Law School. He is the author of 20 books and over 200 law review articles. His most recent major book, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States, was published in August 2024. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court. In 2022, he was the President of the Association of American Law Schools.

Grace Won is a radio producer and guest host for the KQED current events talk show “Forum.” She also hosts the weekly local news program “State of the Bay” on KALW. Prior to her pivot to the radio, Grace was a litigation partner at Farella, Braun + Martel and was named one of the top women lawyers in California by the Daily Journal. Grace clerked on the 9th Circuit for the Hon. Cynthia Holcomb Hall and for the Hon. Marilyn L. Huff, Southern District of California. She formely served on the board of Legal Services for Children and is a recipient of their Excellence in Pro Bono award. Grace lives in San Francisco with her husband and two college-aged children, only one of whom has expressed an interest in practicing law.