Barry Sullivan

Barry Sullivan is a Chicago lawyer, Professor of Law and holder of the Cooney & Conway Chair in Advocacy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Education Sullivan attended Middlebury College in Vermont where he graduated in 1970 with a A.B. degree with high honors in philosophy and political science. While at Middlebury he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In 1974 he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an associate editor of the Law Review and was a national honor scholar. Legal career Sullivan began his legal career in New Orleans, Louisiana as a law clerk for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In 1976 he joined the law firm Jenner & Block in their Chicago office and was promoted to partner in 1981.