2007-2008 Supreme Court Fellows

Carolyn A. Dubay comes to the Supreme Court Fellows Program from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, where she is an attorney in the Article III Judges Division of the Office of Judges Programs. Ms. Dubay holds a B.A. in history from Duke University and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. Following law school, Ms. Dubay was an associate at Jones Day in New York, from 1995 to 1996. In 1996, Ms. Dubay left private practice and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joanna Seybert of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York for two years. Following her clerkship, Ms. Dubay joined the firm Hunton & Williams in the Raleigh, N.C., office, from 1998 to 2002, and the McLean, Va., office, from 2004 to 2005. As an attorney at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Ms. Dubay provides counsel for administrative concerns of Article III judges and program support to the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Committee on International Judicial Relations and the Judicial Statistics Subcommittee of the Committee on Judicial Resources. Ms. Dubay will be the Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States.

Monica A. Fennell joins the Supreme Court Fellows Program from the Indiana Pro Bono Commission, where she is its executive director. Ms. Fennell holds a B.A. in English and French from Williams College and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Fennell spent several years, beginning in 1993 until 1999, as a litigation associate at firms in Milwaukee and Chicago. In 2000, Ms. Fennell went back to reporting, a career she had explored before law school, for the Banner Graphic. From 2001 to 2005, Ms. Fennell went back to private practice at Sutherlin & Zeiner in Greencastle, Indiana. While at Sutherlin & Zeiner, Ms. Fennell also became project administrator for the Putnam County Family Court Facilitation Project, from 2001 to 2004, where she developed policies and procedures for alternative dispute resolution programs for at-risk families in the county. In 2003, she joined the Indiana Pro Bono Commission, where she oversees and seeks to improve pro bono legal services to Indiana citizens. She continues to publish articles in various bar association and legal journals. Ms. Fennell will be the Fellow at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

Karyn Kenny comes to the Supreme Court Fellows Program from the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada, where she is an assistant U.S. attorney, and from William S. Boyd Law School, University of Nevada Las Vegas, where she is an adjunct law professor. She holds a B.A. in classical English literature and a B.S. in telecommunications management from Syracuse University, an M.A. in English literature from New York University, and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. Ms. Kenny served in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office from 1995 to 2000 as an assistant district attorney. In 2000, she joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada. She currently works in the White Collar/Economic Crime Section, specializing in human trafficking and cybercrime cases. In 2006, Ms. Kenny spent a sabbatical as a Fulbright Scholar in Lithuania, where she taught a course on the American criminal justice system and a comparative study course on the American and Irish Constitutions, emphasizing human rights protections in democratic societies. Ms. Kenny will be the Fellow at the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

Elizabeth Murrill joins the Supreme Court Fellows Program as an attorney in Baton Rouge and from Louisiana State University Law Center, where she is an assistant professor of professional practice. Ms. Murrill holds a B.A. in Journalism from Louisiana State University, a J.D. from Louisiana State University Law Center, and anticipates an L.L.M. in May 2008 from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University Law School. From 1991 to 1993, Ms. Murrill served as a law clerk to Judge Frank J. Polozola on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Subsequently, Ms. Murrill joined the chambers of Judge Melvin A. Shortess on the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal as a research attorney. Ms. Murrill began teaching in 1996 and went into private practice. In recent years, she has served as an arbitrator, a mediator, and a special master. Following Hurricane Katrina, Ms. Murrill established and volunteered with the Baton Rouge Bar Association Disaster Recovery Legal Services Project. Ms. Murrill has published articles on legal writing, arbitration, mediation, and civil procedure. Ms. Murrill will be the Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center.

"The Supreme Court Fellows Program gave me a much greater appreciation for the tremendous effort that goes into research and training at the federal level so that judges and court employees throughout the country are capable of providing the same level of service to all who seek justice."

Keith Stott
Executive Director, Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct