| Tara Leigh Grove | |
| Discipline: | Law |
| Education: | Duke University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
| Workplaces: | Florida State University College of William & Mary University of Alabama University of Texas at Austin |
| Sub Discipline: | Federal judiciary Separation of powers |
Tara Leigh Grove is an American legal scholar working as a professor and the Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
Grove earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, summa cum laude, from Duke University. She spent a year teaching English in Japan and earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. In law school, Grove worked as the Supreme Court chair of the Harvard Law Review.[1]
Grove served as a law clerk for Judge Emilio Garza before working for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division for four years.[2] [3] Grove began teaching at the Florida State University College of Law in 2009, and joined the faculty of the College of William & Mary in 2011, where she was named Mills E. Godwin, Jr. Professor of Law.[4] In 2020, Grove accepted an appointment as the Charles E. Tweedy, Jr. Endowed Chairholder in Law at the University of Alabama School of Law.[5] [6] She served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.[7] [8] In summer 2022, Grove left the University of Alabama School of Law for the University of Texas School of Law, where she currently serves as the Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law.[9]