Hannah Smith

Hannah Clayson Smith is an American attorney with the firm Schaerr Jaffe.

Biography Smith was raised in California and is the sister of Jane Clayson Johnson. Smith also served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Switzerland Geneva Mission, which covered parts of Switzerland and France.

Following law school, Smith clerked for then-Judge Samuel Alito of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She next clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court from 2003 to 2004, and then returned in 2006 to clerk at the Supreme Court a second time for Justice Alito following his appointment as an associate justice. She practiced law at Williams & Connolly and Sidley Austin in Washington D.C.

Honors and awards In 2014, Smith was awarded the BYU Alumni Achievement Award. In 2016, Smith was awarded the J. Reuben Clark Law Society's Women-in-Law Leadership Award. In 2018, she was awarded the James Madison Award from the Center for Constitutional Studies.

Smith served on the Brigham Young University Law School's Board of Advisers as well as on the Deseret News editorial advisory board.

Personal life Smith is married to John Smith, an attorney who also clerked for Alito, and they have four children.