EDUCATION
- University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law (J.D., 2022; summa cum laude)
- Franciscan University of Steubenville (M.A., 2024; summa cum laude)
- Bellarmine University (B.A., 2019; cum laude)
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Kentucky
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
MEMBERSHIPS
- Kentucky Bar Association
- Louisville Catholic Bar Association
- Federalist Society
Robert joined the firm in 2024. A two-time federal judicial law clerk, Robert is experienced in litigating complex administrative and constitutional law matters at the trial and appellate levels. He has assisted clients in both federal and state trial and appellate courts throughout the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court and Kentucky Supreme Court. He now concentrates his practice in commercial, constitutional, and healthcare litigation.
Practice Areas
Publications
- Luke M. Milligan & Robert E. Ranney, Search, Seizure, and Ordered Liberty, 93 Miss. L. J. 985 (2024).
- Luke M. Milligan & Robert E. Ranney, Judicial Process, Free Speech, and Ordered Liberty, 55 U. Pac. L. Rev. 227 (2024).
- Robert E. Ranney, Enlightening the Enlightened: A Critique of Enlightenment Thinking and the Secular Religion and on the Need for a Return to Covenant, 35 Regent U. L. Rev. 599 (2023).
- Robert E. Ranney, Reorienting the Legal Academy, 37(1) Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y 688 (2023).
- Robert E. Ranney, The Dangerousness Myth: How Courts and Congress Routinely Impose Lifetime Federal Firearm Bans on the Mentally Ill, 8(2) Baku St. U. L. Rev. 122 (2022).
- Robert E. Ranney, A Story of Migration Through Suffering: An Exegesis of Psalm 137, 3 Scholars in Wrtiting: A J. Undergraduate Res. in the Human. 11 (2021).
Robert lives in Bullitt County with his wife, Mary, and three young children (two toddlers and a newborn). He enjoys visiting beautiful Catholic churches with his family on pilgrimage, playing the harmonica (poorly), and contemplating the good, true, and beautiful. Robert also serves as the Assistant Director of the Ordered Liberty Program at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, leading Socratic dinner discussions over first principles with fellows, law professors, and judges.