Mary Clare Theis

Staff Editor, Volume 102

Mary Clare Theis is a 2L from East Lansing, Michigan. She earned a B.A. in Exercise Science on the pre-med track at Hope College, where she was a goalkeeper on the women’s soccer team. Mary Clare then joined Teach For America and served in the Indianapolis Public Schools, where she taught high school math, earned a Master’s in Teaching, and built a winning program as Head Coach of the varsity girls’ soccer team. Next, she worked as a Data Specialist for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Blackstone Legal Fellowship. Mary Clare spent her 1L summer as a law clerk on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for Senator Mike Lee. In addition to serving on the Notre Dame Law Review, Mary Clare is Treasurer of the Federalist Society, a Murphy Fellow for the Program on Church, State & Society and Religious Liberty Initiative, Vice President of Jus Vitae, and Treasurer of Legal Voices for Children. After graduation, Mary Clare will clerk for the Honorable Joan L. Larsen on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.