Jessica Lee (PPE ’14) Selected as James Wilson Fellow

The King’s College is pleased to share that Jessica Lee (PPE ’14) has been named a James Wilson Fellow by the James Wilson Institute. Jessica is one of a distinguished group of lawyers, clerks, and law students who will spend a week in Washington D.C. this summer studying Natural Law and American jurisprudence.

During the week at the James Wilson Institute, Jessica will go through an intensive experience designed to ground young lawyers in the fundamentals and the application of Natural Law Jurisprudence. The James Wilson Institute seeks to “restore to a new generation of lawyers, judges, and citizens the understanding of the American Founders about the first principles of our law and the moral grounds of their own rights.” The Institute is named for James Wilson, one of the original Supreme Court justices in the United States.

After graduating from King’s, Jessica graduated cum laude from Fordham Law School, where she was the Articles and Notes Editor for the Fordham Law Review. From there, Jessica was an Assistant Solicitor General for the State of West Virginia and clerked for the Honorable Thomas E. Johnston, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. Currently, Jessica is a judicial law clerk for Justice Jimmy Blacklock of the Supreme Court of Texas. After finishing her clerkship with Justice Blacklock, she will clerk for the Honorable Don R. Willett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

The King’s College is proud to help produce outstanding graduates like Jessica, who use their gifts to influence our culture for good. Jessica has shared that her King’s education gave her the solid foundation for understanding the law that she needed. Jessica said, “I couldn’t have asked for a better undergraduate experience to prepare me for law school.”