Michael W. McConnell Quote

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.

Michael W. McConnell

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.

Michael W. McConnell

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About Michael W. McConnell

Michael William McConnell (born May 18, 1955) is an American jurist who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 to 2009. Since 2009, McConnell has been a professor and Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. He is also a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and Senior Of Counsel to the Litigation Practice Group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. In May 2020, Facebook appointed him to its content oversight board. In 2020, McConnell published The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution under Princeton University Press.