reading. Levy also said of Garrett that he "never had a student who made better use of time." As a sophomore at the University of Oklahoma, Garrett became chair of student congress, the University of Oklahoma Student Government Association, a position she held until she graduated. In 1988, she received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. After law school, Garrett clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and for Judge Stephen F. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She also served as a legal advisor at the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal at The Hague and as legislative director and tax and budget counsel for Senator David L. Boren of Oklahoma. Boren said about Garrett, "If I were to count on the fingers of one hand the people I’ve known with the most remarkable intellect, she would be on that list." Honors University of Chicago Law School Graduating Students’ Award for Teaching Excellence (1997) Crain's Chicago Business “40 Under 40” Award for Most Influential Young Chicagoans (2000) Outstanding Teaching Award from the Latter-Day Saint Student Association (2006) Distinguished Alumna of the College of Arts and Sciences (Social Sciences), University of Oklahoma (2007) Association of Trojan Leagues Outstanding Service Award (2008) Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation Harold Lasswell Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (inducted 2013) Member, American Law Institute Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Oklahoma (2015) University of Virginia’s 2016 Distinguished Alumna Award Academia Garrett's primary scholarly interests included legislative process, the initiative and referendum process and the federal budget process. Among her prolific writings, she was co-author of the preeminent case book on legislation and statutory interpretation, Cases and Materials on Legislation and Regulation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (2014). She was also co-editor of Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy and Statutory Interpretation Stories. Her interdisciplinary scholarship used insights from economics and political science to understand how to design democratic institutions to ensure outcomes more consistent with citizen preferences—and how those preferences might be shaped by the political and legal environments. Garrett was a professor of law at the University of Chicago from 1995 to 1999 and also served as deputy dean for academic affairs. She also taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the California Institute of Technology,