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By Natalie Delgadillo, Lara McCoy, and Rachel Sadon

Events occurring in the D.C. region have played a critical part in the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Here are the people and places that are likely to come up as Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman to make sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, testifies before a Senate panel.

Beach Week: A regional rite of passage in much of the mid-Atlantic for high schoolers, “Beach Week” was emblazoned in capital letters on the 1982 calendar that Brett Kavanaugh submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee as evidence that he did not attend a party where Christine Blasey Ford alleges he assaulted her. While the calendar neither proves or disproves the claim, it does point to Kavanaugh’s participation in an annual tradition known as a boozy bacchanal at the end of the school year. Kavanaugh’s third accuser, Julie Swetnick, has alleged that the nominee engaged “in abusive and physically aggressive behavior toward girls,” including in Ocean City, Md. during Beach Week.

Bethesda: An unincorporated suburban part of Montgomery County, Maryland located just northwest of D.C. It’s 75 percent white and very wealthy, with a median income of nearly $200,000. What does it have to do with the hearings? Earlier this month, Bethesda-raised Kavanaugh said in a Senate hearing that he “grew up in a city plagued by gun violence and gang violence and drug violence” (referring, of course, to D.C.). He most certainly did not—he grew up in Bethesda. Georgetown Prep, the elite private high school that has been under a microscope since Kavanaugh was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a party when he was 17, is also located in Bethesda.

Brett Kavanaugh: The Supreme Court nominee was born in D.C. and grew up in Bethesda (see above). Both his parents were lawyers. Kavanaugh attended the Catholic all-boys Georgetown Preparatory School (see below), and then Yale University and Yale Law School. With the exception of his years at Yale and two years of legal clerkships, Kavanaugh has spent his entire life in the Washington region. He was an associate counsel in the Office of the Independent Counsel under Ken Starr and was part of the team that investigated a number of Clinton-era scandals. He served as an associate White House counsel in the George W. Bush administration, and was appointed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by Bush. He lives with his wife Ashley with their two daughters in Chevy Chase, Maryland, an affluent suburb on the border with D.C. A Catholic, he is part of the community of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament.

Christine Blasey Ford: Christine Blasey Ford was the first person to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Like Kavanaugh, Blasey Ford grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. Born Christine Blasey, she attended Holton-Arms (see below), an elite all-girls school. Blasey Ford told the Washington Post that she met Kavanaugh through the social circles of private school kids in the Bethesda area. Blasey Ford left the Washington area to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has not lived in the area since. She moved to California and received graduate degrees from Pepperdine University, the University of Southern California, and the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a professor of psychology at the University of Palo Alto and is the author of several books. She lives in Palo Alto with her husband and two sons. Blasey’s family has deep roots in Washington. Her parents and two brothers still live in the area.

Columbia Country Club: The club, located in Chevy Chase, Maryland, has claimed many of Washington’s elite, including former President Barack Obama, as members. Christine Blasey Ford’s family were long-time members of the club, where she was part of the diving team. Blasey Ford has said that she was at the club nearly every day the summer in question, and that the party where she alleges that she was attacked by Brett Kavanaugh took place nearby.

Georgetown Preparatory School (Georgetown Prep): An elite, private, Jesuit all-boys high school in North Bethesda. Kavanaugh attended this high school in the early ‘80s (as did Trump’s other Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch). It’s while he attended Georgetown prep that he is accused of sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford (who attended an area all-girls school, see below) at a gathering when he was 17. As of Wednesday, Kavanaugh has also been accused by another woman, Julie Swetnick, of engaging in sexually aggressive behavior with women at high school parties (see below). The elite school’s partying and drinking culture has come under a microscope since the Kavanaugh allegations have come to light.

Holton-Arms: The small private girls school in Maryland where Christine Blasey Ford went to high school. Shortly after Ford’s identity became public, 600 verified alumni of the school sent a letter to Congress in support of her. The class of 1984 (Blasey Ford’s graduating year) sent a separate letter of support.

Julie Swetnick: A local woman who came forward on Wednesday with the latest allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. She’s a web developer who has held several security clearances for her work in government, according to the sworn declaration released by her lawyer Michael Avenatti. She graduated from Gaithersburg High School in Maryland, and says she attended more than ten house parties where she witnessed Brett Kavanaugh get excessively drunk and “engage in abusive and physically aggressive behavior toward girls.” She says that often at high school parties, boys from Georgetown Prep would line up and wait to gang rape inebriated girls in rooms. Her declaration said that she clearly remembers Kavanaugh lining up with others. She said she was a victim of one of these gang rapes in 1982, but she doesn’t directly accuse Kavanaugh of raping her.

Leland Ingham Keyser: A longtime friend of Christine Blasey Ford, who Blasey Ford says was at the party where she alleges she was attacked by Kavanaugh. Keyser has said in a statement that she doesn’t remember being at the party, nor does she know Kavanaugh.

Letters from Holton-Arms and Georgetown Prep: Hundreds of alumnae from Christine Blasey Ford’s alma mater, Holton-Arms School, signed an open letter of support for her, which reads in part, “we believe Dr. Blasey Ford and are grateful that she came forward.” Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who graduated from Holton-Arms in 1979, was among the signatories. Hundreds of women who graduated from Yale and Yale Law school have also signed a letter of support for Blasey Ford. Kavanaugh has also received letters of support, including from more than 60 people who knew him in high school. That letter reads in part “Brett Kavanaugh is a good man. He has always treated women with respect and decency.”

Mark Judge: A good friend of Brett Kavanaugh while they were both students at Georgetown Prep, and now a conservative commentator. Julie Swetnick said in a sworn declaration that she would describe the two as “joined at the hip.” Christine Blasey Ford said that Mark Judge was watching the door as Kavanaugh attacked her, alternately egging him on and telling him to stop, both of them drunkenly laughing. Judge told the Weekly Standard that he “never saw Brett act that way.” As Mother Jones reported, Judge has described Georgetown Prep’s alcohol culture in his addiction memoir, Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk. The book references a “Bart O’Kavanaugh,” who vomited in someone’s car and passed out on his way back from a party.

This story has been updated to reflect that Holton-Arms is not a Catholic school.