Early Life and Education
Seitz's father, Collins J. Seitz, was a chancellor of Delaware who wrote the 1952 decision in Gebhart v. Belton, which paved the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
Seitz earned a bachelor's degree in 1978 from Duke University, and was a Rhodes Scholar. She earned an M.A. Oxon. in 1980 from Oxford University. She earned a law degree in 1985 from the University at Buffalo Law School.
After law school, Seitz clerked from 1985 until 1986 for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Seitz then clerked from 1986 until 1987 for Associate Justice William Brennan of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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