Dale A. Carpenter (b. 1968) received his B.A. degree in history from Yale College in 1989. He received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1992, where he was also editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review. Carpenter clerked for Edith H. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1992 to 1993. After his clerkship, he practiced at Vinson & Elkins in Houston and at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco. Since 2002 he has been Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law at the University of Minnesota Law School
From the guide to the Dale Carpenter papers, 1989-1999, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies [scrbt])
