High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael William McConnell (born May 18, 1955 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a constitutional law scholar who served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 until 2009. Since 2009, Judge McConnell has served as Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. He is also a senior fellow at Stanford University`s Hoover Institution, and Of Counsel to the Litigation Practice Group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.