Natalie Schmidt is an Assistant Professor of Law at Catholic Law. Prior to joining the faculty in 2024, she practiced law at Williams & Connolly LLP, litigating complex civil cases at both the trial and appellate levels. Before that, she served as a law clerk to Judge Peter J. Phipps of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professor Schmidt teaches and writes in the areas of election law, administrative law, and remedies. Her scholarship has appeared in the Ohio State Law Journal. She also writes on topics related to federal courts, separation of powers, and equity, with particular focus on the allocation of power between institutions federal, state, and democratic.

Professor Schmidt received her J.D. in 2022 from Harvard Law School, where she served as the Executive Submissions Editor on the Harvard Journal on Legislation. She received her B.S. from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2019.