Biography.
He grew up in
Windham,
New Hampshire and attended the
Pinkerton Academy in
Derry. In 1992, Normand graduated from the
College of William and Mary magna cum laude and
Phi Beta Kappa. He then clerked for
Marjorie O. Rendell on the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and
Joseph M. McLaughlin on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 1995, he received a J.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the
University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He served as assistant to the Special Master to the
United States Supreme Court for the controversy regarding the
state sovereignty of
Ellis Island. He was a partner at the law firm
Boies, Schiller & Flexner. In early 2020, Normand co-founded the law firm of Roche Cyrulnik Freedman, and he currently serves as one of the firm's co-chairs. He demonstrated a passion for the law at an early age, winning the
Boston Globe’s
Constitution Essay Contest while a senior in high school. ==Publications==