Early Life, Education, and Law Career
McIntosh was born in Oakland, California, but moved to his mother's hometown of Kendallville, Indiana, at age five after his father died of cancer.
McIntosh attended Yale University, where he was a member and later president of the Yale Political Union and despite his political orientation its Progressive Party. He graduated with a B.A. (cum laude) in 1980, and later received a J.D. from University of Chicago Law School in 1983. He was taught at Chicago by Antonin Scalia, who later became a Supreme Court Justice. He is also a co-founder of The Federalist Society.
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