The Deseret News recently printed this story on former law professor and former federal appellate judge Michael McConnell (now directing Stanford's Constitutional Law Center), including a few paragraphs devoted to McConnell's first encounter with a certain law review editor who would one day occupy the White House.
In reading Professor McConnell's bio at the Stanford website, I note this sentence: "He is the only full-time professor of law in the nation who has previously served as a federal judge." That's quite an interesting piece of trivia (and, I assume, a claim that excludes law deans [such as Duke's David Levi, a former federal district judge]).
Thanks for this, Tim.
In addition to Dean (Judge) David Levi, former tenth circuit judge Robert Henry is now president of Oklahoma City University.
Al, and yet another 10th Circuit judge might join the list, if Pepperdine selects Judge Deanell Tacha as its next law dean.
Maybe we'll starting looking to the 10th Circuit as a "feeder" into the academy!
Paul Cassell is another example, I believe:
http://www.law.utah.edu/faculty/faculty-profile/?id=paul-cassell
Orin, I remembered that Judge Cassell had taught before becoming a federal judge, but I forgot (or did not know) that he had returned to academia.