Thomas Kellenberg

Biography

Thomas Kellenberg has served as the Executive Director of the Notre Dame Washington Program since its founding in 1998. He teaches the core seminar, oversees student internships, and manages on-site operations in Washington, D.C. Kellenberg is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Law School, where he was a Harvard Human Rights Fellow and a C. Clyde Ferguson Fellow of Human Rights and Development. Before law school, he spent several years working in Santiago, Chile during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.  After law school, he served as a judicial clerk to Judge John C. Coughenour of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and Judge Robert R. Beezer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He previously taught in the law schools at the University of Washington and Catholic University, as well as worked in private practice. He is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia. Professor Kellenberg teaches "Foundations of Public Policy" to students in the Washington Program and he founded, and directs, the Notre Dame Human Rights Clinic.