JEFFREY S. SUTTON is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  He has served as Chair of the Federal Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, and Chair of the Supreme Court Fellows Commission.  He currently serves as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.  Since 1993, Chief Judge Sutton has been an adjunct professor at The Ohio State University College of Law, where he teaches seminars on State Constitutional Law, the United States Supreme Court, and Appellate Advocacy.  He also teaches a class on State Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School.  Among other publications, he is the author of Who Decides? States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation and 51 Imperfect Solutions:  States and the Making of American Constitutional Law.  He is the co-author of a casebook, State Constitutional Law:  The Modern Experience, as well as The Law of Judicial Precedent.  He is also the co-editor of The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law.  In 2006, Chief Judge Sutton was elected to the American Law Institute, and in 2017 he was elected to its Council.