Me and the Chief Justice

Chief Justice Roberts came to Wake Forest as one of the three judges who judged the Stanley Moot Court Competition. The other two judges were Circuit Courts of Appeals judges from the 3rd and 5th circuits. A moot court competition involves writing an appellate brief and then arguing for the appellant and appellee (plaintiff and defendant). The 16 winners from the first round advance and then the 8 winners from the second round and so on until there were 2 competitors left and these were the competitors who argued in front of the Chief Justice and the Circuit Court Judges. After the competition the students were invited to a reception with the judges. Poor chief Justice Roberts was surrounded by students the whole time. I imagine that is what it must look like for a rock star to be swarmed by fans. He stopped every two seconds to take a picture and camera flashes were going off everywhere. That must be what it feels like to be surrounded by paparazzi. The marshals just let us follow him around and take pictures. He really was very gracious. So here's my picture with the Chief Justice. I also shook his hand and then tried to move out of the way. But he turned around and ended up right in front of me again. He smiled and said, "I've already taken a picture with you," and moved on. After my friends and I had gotten our pictures we walked back to the law school from the undergraduate campus where the reception had been held. We stopped to look at our pictures in the digital camera and giggled with glee (even the guys) at our new "celebrity" pictures. I imagine we were like 13 year old girls who had just been able to get a picture taken with their favorite teenage rock star.