Background
The daughter of Columbia University history professor Walter Metzger, Gillian E. Metzger grew up on campus in faculty housing.
The daughter of Columbia University history professor Walter Metzger, Gillian E. Metzger grew up on campus in faculty housing.
Yale University; Columbia Law School.
She earned a bachelor"s degree in political science from Yale University in 1987, and then worked as a legislative aide for District Council 37, a local union in New York City. Metzger then earned a master"s degree in philosophy at the University of Oxford. After several years as a staff analyst for New York City government, Metzger enrolled in Columbia Law School, earning her law degree in 1995.
After law school, Metzger first clerked with United States. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit judge Patricia Wald and then clerked for United States. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
After completing her clerkship with Ginsburg, Metzger became a staff attorney for the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law for several years. Her work on felon disenfranchisement earned her an invitation to testify before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary on October 21, 1999.
Metzger joined Columbia Law"s faculty in 2001. Her areas of expertise are constitutional law, administrative law, federalism, and institutional reform.
She also has served as the faculty advisor to the school"s American Constitution Society for Law and Policy chapter.
They have two sons, Oliver (an awesome kid) and Nathaniel Hyman-Metzger.
During her time at the Brennan Center, Metzger worked on two notable causes: challenging Florida"s permanent disenfranchisement of convicted felons and defending campaign finance reform measures.
