Our Executive Board

Chapter Officers

2025-2026

  • Adelena Nini

    PRESIDENT

    Welcome to our chapter! I am a 3L and the current president. I am originally from Clarkston, Michigan, and I graduated from Boston College in 2021, majoring in philosophy and biology. I stayed at Boston College to earn a master’s degree in philosophy before attending law school.

    This year, I am a senior editor for our newsletter, the Appellate Digest. Please reach out to me if you have any questions about FedSoc!

  • George Lewis

    EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

    As Executive Vice President of the Emory Federalist Society, I manage budgets, fundraising, alumni relations, and assist the president in all matters.

    I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and later studied Political Philosophy at Davidson College, where I ran Division 1 Cross Country and Track & Field.  I wrote my senior thesis on Scalia’s Rule of Law and its Roots in Libertarian Philosophy. After graduating, I worked in the U.S. and Switzerland for Epic Systems, where I managed multi-million-dollar software implementations and served as a long-term partner to executive teams of large healthcare systems.

    Following my 1L year, I interned for a boutique litigation firm in Atlanta. Now a 2L, I am a senior editor for our newsletter, Appellate Digest, and will be serving on the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the Federalist Society!

  • John McKee

    VICE PRESIDENT OF SPEAKERS

    Hello, my name is John. As the current VP of Speakers, I help plan events and organize guest appearances. It is my goal this year to bring high profile speakers with a broad range of perspectives on current legal issues to Emory Law. In addition to serving as VP of Speakers, I am also a senior editor for our chapter's Appellate Digest. Outside of FedSoc, I am the President of the Emory Free Speech Forum.

    Prior to attending Emory Law, I received a Bachelors in International Studies with minors in Chinese and Cyber-Criminology from the University of Alabama. I subsequently worked as a research analyst and partnership manager in the cryptocurrency and startup spaces. I am from Ocean Springs, MS.

  • Ori Ben-Ari

    VICE PRESIDENT OF MEMBERSHIP

    Ori Ben-Ari 27L was born in Kfar Saba, Israel, and moved to Maplewood, New Jersey at the age of 11. Ori graduated from the College of William & Mary in 2024 with a degree in Public Policy, where he was a member of the Model UN and rugby teams. During his 1L summer, Ori worked as a summer intern to the Honorable Robert J. Luck on the Eleventh Circuit. He also serves as Vice President of Emory’s Jewish Law Student Association.

  • Ethan Oppenheim

    VICE PRESIDENT OF ALUMNI & FACULTY

    Hi everyone! My name is Ethan Oppenheim, and I am currently a 2L at Emory Law. This year, I am serving as FedSoc’s Vice President of Alumni and Faculty Relations. One of my primary roles is to assist students in securing judicial clerkships, internships, and externships. This includes providing resume and cover letter advice and offering insight into the judiciary and the vast array of potential opportunities for students. In addition, I am the main contact point for communicating and maintaining relations with alumni and faculty.

    I grew up in Rockville, Maryland just outside of Washington, DC, but have since lived in Birmingham, Alabama. I pursued my undergraduate education at Chapman University in Orange, California, where I studied political science, philosophy, history, and film music. At Emory, in addition to my involvement in FedSoc, I am a Staff Member for the Emory Law Journal and the Director of Outreach for ELSSCAP. This past summer, I interned for the Honorable Justin R. Walker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and I highly encourage all 1Ls to consider a judicial internship for their 1L summer. I am always happy to answer any questions, so feel free to reach out!

  • Trey Parker

    VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

    Hi, my name is Trey Parker and I am currently a 2L at Emory Law. I serve Emory's Federalist Society as the VP of Communications this year. In this role, I notify our members of upcoming events by updating our website and social media.

    I am originally from Johns Creek, Georgia. I attended Mississippi State University, majoring in Economics and Philosophy. Outside of the Federalist Society, I am also involved in the Christian Legal Society and the Emory Law Journal. This past summer, I stayed in Atlanta and interned with Judge Bill Hamrick at the Georgia State-wide Business Court.

    Please contact me if you have any questions!

  • Joshua Hinton

    VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMS

    Hi! My name is Joshua Hinton, and I am currently a 2L at Emory Law. I am from Lexington, KY and attended undergrad at the University of Kentucky. As the Federalist Society's VP of Programs, I primarily assist in facilitating our day-of event operations, such as reserving spaces for meetings and providing food for events.

  • Rohan Roongta

    TREASURER

    Hi, my name is Rohan Roongta! I am a 2L and your current treasurer. I am from Houston, TX. originally and graduated from Rice University in 2015 with a major in economics and minor in business. While at Rice University, I participated in the nation’s first undergraduate chapter of FedSoc.

    After graduating, I worked in the real estate brokerage and investing for a few years before deciding to attend Emory Law to pursue a transactional track. This past summer I worked at the Harris County District Attorney’s office in Houston to experience the litigation and courtroom side of law. Along with that position, I worked as a research assistant for Professor Martin Sybblis and Dean Richard Freer.

    Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!

  • Jared Wolf

    SECRETARY

    Hi, my name is Jared Wolf, and I am currently a 2L at Emory University School of Law. I am originally from Livingston, NJ, and I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Miami.

    As Secretary, I am responsible for preparing and distributing notes after each executive board meeting, as well as assisting fellow board members to ensure that the organization runs smoothly.

  • Andrew Smith

    EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE

    Hello! I'm Andrew, and I'm the editor-in-chief of the Federalist Perspective, the journal of The Federalist Society at Emory. The goal of the journal is to provide high-quality debate and academic contributions on current topics. In the past, we've had contributions from both law students and judges on pressing issues, and we look forward to continuing this tradition. Look out for our upcoming edition next spring!

    I'm a 2L here at Emory Law. Along with this jazz, I'm also a member of the Christian Legal Society and am the treasurer for ELSSCAP. I'm from Madison, Alabama, and went to University of Alabama (Roll Tide). Come talk to me about the Federalist Perspective!

  • Trey Jackson

    EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE APPELLATE DIGEST

    Hi, my name is Trey, and I am the editor-in-chief of the Newsletter. In the Appellate Digest, we summarize the oral arguments before SCOTUS in an unbiased and concise manner and publish them for the public (mainly Emory Law professors) to view so that they can get a quick understanding of the cases. The Appellate Digest is for you if you are interested in SCOTUS, want extra writing and research experience, or if you want to boost your resume.

    I am from Tallahassee, Florida. Outside of Fed Soc, I am a Staff Editor for the Emory Law Journal. Reach out to me if you are interested in the Appellate Digest!

  • Maahi Sethi

    UNDERGRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE

    Hello, my name is Maahi, and I am an undergraduate at Emory University. I study Neuroscience, Philosophy, Politics, and Law. I am on the Pre-Law track, focusing on Civil Rights and Disability Law.

    Outside of Fed Soc, I was a Virtual Intern with the Special Advisor on International
    Disability Rights at U.S. Department of State, I am a member of the Emory Undergraduate Student Government, and I have contributed to the Emory Law's Supreme Court Advocacy Program's Sunday Splits Blog. Please reach out to me if you are an undergraduate student looking to get involved!

Advisory Committee

Alexander Volokh

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW

Alexander "Sasha" Volokh is an associate professor of law and joined the Emory Law faculty in the fall of 2009.

Volokh earned his BS from UCLA and his JD and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. He clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit and Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Samuel Alito. Before coming to Emory, he was a visiting associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Houston Law Center.

His interests include law and economics, administrative law and the regulatory process, antitrust, privatization, corrections, and legal history.

Jonathan R. Nash

ROBERT HOWELL HALL PROFESSOR OF LAW

Jonathan Nash is Robert Howell Hall Professor and co-director of Emory Law’s Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance. Nash specializes in federal courts and jurisdiction, the study of courts and judges, and environmental law (both domestic and international). Before coming to Emory Law, Nash was the Robert C. Cudd Professor of Environmental Law at Tulane University. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Hofstra University School of Law and as a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School. Nash is a prolific scholar, publishing in the Columbia Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Michigan Law Review, the NYU Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review, among other leading journals. His scholarship has been cited by the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Federal Circuits, among others.

Before teaching, Nash was a law clerk to the Honorable Donald Stuart Russell of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Honorable Nina Gershon, then Chief Magistrate Judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Nash also worked as an attorney in New York. Professor Nash received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics summa cum laude from Columbia University in New York, his JD magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, his LLM from Harvard Law School, and his Ph.D. in political science from Emory University.

Matthew P. Cavedon

ROBERT POOL FELLOW IN LAW AND RELIGION

SENIOR LECTURER IN LAW, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND RELIGION

Matthew P. Cavedon is the Robert Pool Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. A native of Connecticut, Cavedon first came to CSLR after graduating from Harvard College. He received his JD/MTS from Emory in 2015, serving as Executive Articles Editor of the Emory International Law Review. While at CSLR, he served on the team that won an international law and religion moot court competition in Venice, Italy. Following graduation, he worked as a Constitutional Fellow at the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Virginia. He assisted with constitutional litigation, especially in cases involving civil forfeiture. He then clerked for the Hon. Lisa Godbey Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia in Brunswick, Georgia. Following this, Cavedon served as an assistant public defender in Gainesville and Dawsonville, Georgia. He worked as a trial, appellate, and juvenile attorney on cases ranging from truancy to murder. Immediately before returning to CSLR, Cavedon clerked for the Hon. Nels S. D. Peterson of the Supreme Court of Georgia. His research interests include Spanish scholasticism, Georgia law, and criminal jurisprudence.

Tonja Jacobi

PROFESSOR OF LAW

SAM NUNN CHAIR IN ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM

Tonja Jacobi PhD is Professor of Law and Sam Nunn Chair in Ethics and Professionalism at Emory Law School. Prof. Jacobi specializes in Supreme Court judicial behavior and public law. Her areas of interest include judicial politics, Supreme Court oral arguments, criminal procedure, legislative process, and constitutional law. Combining doctrinal, empirical, and formal analysis, Prof. Jacobi examines how judges respond to institutional constraints.

In particular, she is a renowned expert in Supreme Court oral argument: in a series of empirical studies covering sixty years of arguments, she has identified patterns and prejudices in judicial and advocate behavior, and has shown that case outcomes can be predicted based on those behaviors. Supreme Court justices have commented on this work and said it changed the Court. Prof. Jacobi has published in over sixty peer review and law review journals, and has a casebook co-authored with her Emory and Northwestern Law students.. Prof. Jacobi also regularly writes Op Eds in major periodicals such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, analyzing Supreme Court behavior and implications of the separation of powers system more generally. From 2023-2024, she authored a regular column in Bloomberg Law, Questions Presented, examining thorny issues facing the US Supreme Court and ethics in the legal profession, include Supreme Court reform, the Trump indictments and gag orders, and specific cases and issues before the Court.

She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University, a Masters from the University of California, Berkeley, and a law degree with first class honors from the Australian National University and a BA with first class honors from the Australian National University. Prof. Jacobi is the faculty advisor to both the American Constitutional Society and the Federalist Society.

David E. Nahmias (Dave)

PARTNER, JONES DAY

FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE GEORGIA SUPREME COURT

Dave Nahmias is a partner in the Atlanta office of the global law firm Jones Day. He uses his broad experience and distinguished judgment to counsel organizations and individuals on government and internal investigations, litigation and appeals, and compliance and regulatory matters.

Dave served as a Justice on the Georgia Supreme Court from 2009 to 2022, concluding his tenure as Chief Justice. He authored almost 500 published opinions and joined more than 2,700 others while becoming an influential leader in the judiciary. Before going on the bench, Dave spent almost 15 years in the U.S. Justice Department. He served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia; the Deputy Assistant Attorney General overseeing the Counterterrorism, Fraud, and Appellate Sections of the Criminal Division in Washington; and a line AUSA prosecuting cases in Atlanta.

The son of immigrants, Dave grew up in Decatur and was the State’s STAR Student in 1982. After graduating summa cum laude from Duke University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served on the Law Review, Dave clerked on the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Antonin Scalia at the U.S. Supreme Court. He has chaired the Judicial Council of Georgia and has served on a number of other government and non-profit boards.

Thomas C. Arthur

EMORY SCHOOL OF LAW DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR

Thomas C. Arthur holds degrees from Yale Law School and Duke University, where he was an Angier B. Duke Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Before coming to Emory, he practiced law for eleven years with the Washington, DC, office of Kirkland & Ellis. 1982 he left his law firm partnership to join the Emory Law faculty.

Arthur teaches antitrust, civil procedure, and administrative law, and he has been active on the executive committee of the Antitrust Section of the Association of American Law Schools. His articles in the California and Tulane law reviews have been credited with founding a new, "statutory" school of antitrust analysis. His 1991 Emory Law Journal article (co-authored with Professor Richard D. Freer) provoked a nationally noted debate over an important new statute governing the jurisdiction of federal courts. A major antitrust article, "The Costly Quest for Perfect Competition: Kodak and Nonstructural Market Power," was published in the New York University Law Review (vol. 69, April 1994).