Brian Maguire LAW ’21 is a Law and Public Policy Scholar and member of the Federal Judicial Clerkship Honors Program at Temple University Beasley School of Law. A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Brian graduated cum laude from the University of Scranton in 2018, earning a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a focus on public administration. While at the University of Scranton, Brian spent four semesters interning for a United States Senator and served as a Student-fellow on Secretary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign. Following undergraduate graduation, Brian enrolled in the part-time evening division program of Widener University Law School and began working full time as a campaign finance staffer on a congressional campaign in the Philadelphia suburbs during the 2018 mid-term election cycle. After completing his first year of law school at Widener, Brian transferred to Temple University Beasley School of Law in the fall of 2019. He is now a full-time student at Temple and continues to advise political campaigns in Delaware County. Through the Federal Judicial Clerkship Honors program, Brian plans to spend the fall 2020 and spring 2021 semesters working for a United States District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
As a Law and Public Policy Scholar, Brian is working at Philadelphia City Hall in the office of Councilman Derek Green. Brian’s policy interests include equal access to voting rights and the municipal, state, and federal government responses to the COVID-19 outbreak.