Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will be joined by University President Emeritus Edward Malloy, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund Jennie Bradley Lichter and Notre Dame trustee James Dunne III for the 5th annual Jeanie Poole O’Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture on Sept. 11. Panelists will discuss their experiences of the 9/11 attacks.
The lecture, hosted by the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government, will take place in Leighton Concert Hall in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. While free, the event is ticketed.
To further reflect on the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the CCCG is collecting “Remembrance Recollections” — anecdotes and photographs from the community to honor those who died and recall personal experiences from that day. Community members can give permission for their recollections to be posted to the center’s website and social media.
The Jeanie Poole O’Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture was created in 2022, endowed with support from Patrick O’Shaughnessy and the O’Shaughnessy family, “designed to connect scholarship and education concerning the ideas and institutions of constitutional government with the principles put into practice by the individuals shaping the civic fabric of our country,” according to the lecture’s webpage.
Past lecturers include South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott in 2022, 70th U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2024 and Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in 2025. The lectures by DeSantis and Barrett drew protesters.
In April, the CCCG co-hosted a conference in Washington, D.C., titled “Endowed by Their Creator: Catholicism, the Declaration of Independence, and the American Experiment at 250,” which included Kavanaugh in a keynote conversation. Kavanaugh also taught in a Supreme Court seminar class for Notre Dame Law School last fall.
