Clint Bolick - Career

Career

Bolick previously served as the president and general counsel of the Alliance for School Choice, a national non-profit educational policy group advocating school choice programs across the United States. Bolick is a co-founder and former vice president of the libertarian public interest law firm Institute for Justice. He is research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

While working for the Landmark Legal Foundation, Bolick led the defense for the first Wisconsin school voucher program. Bolick often cites the interests of low-income schoolchildren in inadequate urban public schools as a focus of his school choice advocacy.

Bolick was an assistant at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission when current Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was EEOC chairman. Bolick successfully argued Granholm v. Heald, the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case striking down regulatory barriers to direct interstate shipment of wine to consumers.

In 2006, Bolick was the recipient of a Bradley Prize, an honor bestowed annually on public intellectuals and academics by the Lynne and Harry Bradley Foundation for excellence in the Foundation's stated mission of "strengthening American democratic capitalism." Bolick also served as Of Counsel to the Rose Law Group in Scottsdale, Arizona

Bolick currently serves as the director of the Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation at the Goldwater Institute. The Goldwater Institute's Center for Constitutional Litigation is the first of its kind and a new avenue for free-market organizations to advance freedom in the states. Bolick helped draft model legislation known as the Health Care Freedom Act that seeks to preserve the right of individuals to pay for health care directly instead of being compelled to enroll in a government-sponsored insurance plan. Arizona and Oklahoma voters approved a version of the Health Care Freedom Act in their respective November 2010 general elections. Also in November 2010, voters in Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah adopted a Bolick-drafted measure called Save Our Secret Ballot, which guarantees workers the right to a secret-ballot vote in union-organizing elections.