From Chicago, IL, Jorden Rutledge knew from an early age that he wanted to be a lawyer. In college, he met several lawyers and really enjoyed conversations surrounding legal issue and different legislation. This experienced led him to really consider becoming a lawyer as his career and that was ultimately what he decided to do.
He received his undergraduate degree in Political Science at Missouri State, he then began his legal studies at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.
In law school, he was a law clerk for Carver, Cantin and Grantham, a judicial extern for the US District Court for Eastern District of Missouri and work as a federal public defender in St. Louis. After he graduated from law school, he then worked as an associate attorney for Brown & James, P.C and then worked as a judicial law clerk for the Missouri Court of Appeals in the Eastern District.
Jorden currently works a Judicial Law Clerk at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. After his current clerkship is completed, he plans to focus more on commercial litigation or civil rights litigation.