Clint Bolick

A legal pioneer in a number of areas, Bolick is perhaps best known for his leadership in defending state-based school choice programs. He has argued and won significant cases in both state and federal courts, winning school choice victories in the Supreme Courts of Wisconsin, Ohio, and Arizona ... Bolick has also set landmark precedents defending freedom of enterprise and private property rights and challenging corporate subsidies and racial classifications. Before joining the Goldwater Institute in 2007, Bolick was cofounder of the Institute for Justice and former president of the Alliance for School Choice.

Bolick is co-founder, vice president and litigation director of the Institute for Justice, Washington, D.C. This is a public interest law firm that helps defend individual liberty against government regulation. Among other things, Bolick has successfully defended America's first tuition voucher program (in Milwaukee) and defeated barriers to entry in various professions. He has written ... Transformation: The Promise and Politics of Empowerment (1998), and Voucher Wars (2003). Bolick is co-author of The Age Lobby: Mortgaging America's Future (1990). He received his law degree from the University of California at Davis.

Whereas most bio blurbs merely rattle off a resume, IJ's promo of its VP, litigation director and co-founder stipulates that Clint Bolick possesses "the dreams of Don Quixote and the political savvy of a Boston pol. Combine those traits in a personality as animated as Clint's role model, Snoopy, and you have the Institute for Justice's litigation director. Clint applies his broad vision in defending rights that have been wronged with sophisticated, provocative arguments both in the courts and in the court of public opinion ... In Clint's wake, ... ordinary citizens regain a measure of freedom."