Jane Louise Kelly, Greencastle native and child of two DePauw professors, is a potential successor to the late-Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia.
Kelly was born and raised in Greencastle by Richard Kelly, a DePauw psychology professor and one-time director of the Bureau of Testing and Researching, and Judith C. Kelly, a part-time DePauw instructor. She went on to graduate from Greencastle High School as co-valedictorian and continued her education at Duke University, where she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987. She eventually received her Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1991.
Kelly currently serves as a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit for which President Obama, who happened to be in her graduating class at Harvard, nominated her.
Her name is one of several that were discussed as potential successors to Scalia. The official successor will be announced either by President Obama before the end of his term or by his presidential successor.
