Tom Jipping     2/2/2002

Tom Jipping is Senior Fellow in Legal Studies at Concerned Women for America (CWA). He directs the CWA Judicial Appointments Project communicating with the White House and the Senate Judiciary Committee on judicial nominees. Mr. Jipping received a B.A. with honors from Calvin College in 1983, J.D. cum laude from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in 1987, and M.A. in political science from SUNY-Buffalo in 1989.

Judicial Watchdog:
A key player in the "conservative opinion-setting network" on legal and judicial issues according to New York Times Magazine (11/12/95), Mr. Jipping is "a leading critic of judicial activism" (National Journal 11/22/97) who has "led efforts against judicial activism" (Washington Times, 6/28/02). The Nation says he is "the right’s ablest analyst of confirmation fights" (7/22/02) and a "weapon of mass destruction" (2/22/99) in the judicial selection process, and the American Bar Association Journal (June 1997) says he is the conservative movement’s "real attack dog" against judicial activism.

Legal Analyst:
For 12 years, Mr. Jipping was Director of the Center for Law & Democracy at the Free Congress Foundation, where he founded the Center’s Judicial Selection Monitoring Project and for eight years hosted "Legal Notebook," a nationally syndicated legal affairs television program. Mr. Jipping is a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He served as a law clerk to Judge William D. Hutchinson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a student law clerk to now-Justice Antonin Scalia when he was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to now-Senior Judge Douglas W. Hillman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.

Legal Writer:
Mr. Jipping's scholarship has been published in the University of Richmond Law Review, Buffalo Law Review, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Regent University Law Review, Texas Review of Law & Politics, South Texas Law Review, Bioethics and Public Policy, and Studies in Law & Medicine. His commentary on legal and policy issues has appeared in periodicals including the Washington Times, Investor’s Business Daily, The Hill, WorldNetDaily.com (weekly), Congressional Quarterly Researcher, Miami Herald, World, National Review, Human Events, Insight, Philadelphia Inquirer, Citizen, Dr. Laura Perspective, IntellectualCapital.com, Legal Times, Tampa Tribune, USA Today, The World & I, and National Law Journal. In law school, he was elected to the editorial board of the Buffalo Law Review, won the Scribes Award for contributions to the journal, and served as both Senior Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and Student Editor of Law & Policy, an interdisciplinary academic journal.

Spokesperson:
Mr. Jipping lectures frequently on legal and policy issues. He television appearances include ABC's Good Morning America and Nightline; NBC's Today Show; CBS television and radio news programs; FOX Morning News; FOX News Channel’s Special Report with Brit Hume, Hannity & Colmes, and The Big Story with John Gibson; CNN's Burden of Proof; PBS’s News Hour with Jim Lehrer; C-SPAN’s Washington Journal; Court TV’s Cochran & Company; and MSNBC’s Watch It, Buchanan and Press, and Alan Keyes is Making Sense. He has been quoted and interviewed in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles.

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