Education
Princeton University.
Princeton University.
Smith is a lawyer with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. She has been a lawyer with the Becket Fund since 2007. She was part of the legal team for United States. Supreme Court cases such as Burwell v.
Hobby Lobby, Holt v.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Smith was raised in California. She has a bachelor"s degree from Princeton University. While there she took at least one class from Robert George, who she counts as a mentor.
She has a law degree from the Brigham Young University (Brigham Young University) J. Reuben Clark Law School.
She was a law clerk for both Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. In the case of Alito, she clerked for him both while he was a judge on the 3rd Circuit and while he was a Supreme Court justice.
Smith serves on the Deseret News editorial advisory board. Smith was on the inaugural panel of Stanford Law School"s religious freedom clinic.
Smith is the sister of Jane Clayson Johnson.