Hilary Ruth Ledwell and Joshua William Been Revesz were married Jan. 25 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. James E. Boasberg, a federal district judge in Washington for whom the bride clerked, officiated.
The couple met at Yale, from which both received law degrees, and from which the groom received an undergraduate degree, summa cum laude.
The bride, 29, is a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union in New York. She served as a law clerk for Judge Boasberg from 2018-19. She graduated summa cum laude from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., and received two master’s degrees from Cambridge University, one in modern European history and the other in historical studies.
She is the daughter of Deborah H. Schwartz, who recently retired as town manager of Killington, Vt., and who previously served as airport manager of the Little Rock National Airport.
The groom, 28, is an appellate lawyer in the Justice Department’s Civil Division in Washington. He clerked for Merrick B. Garland, the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, from 2017-18. This summer he will begin a clerkship for Justice Elena Kagan.
He is the son of Vicki L. Been and Richard L. Revesz of New York. The groom’s parents are professors of law at N.Y.U. His mother is currently on leave to serve as New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development. His father is also the director of the American Law Institute in Philadelphia.
