Hogan Lovells associate Katie Wellington will make her first appellate argument on Tuesday, appearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver on behalf of Ford Motor Company in a suit involving wrongful death claims and the statute of limitations.

It’s a career milestone, the culmination of years of training and hard work by the former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and (then) D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh.