Don't laugh but I really would like to be a federal judge and work with the constitutional law and I want to do what I can to make it happen. Like the title of the topic says, I just want to know if I have a chance and seeing as I do, I will take it.
Ya know, as a general rule, I really, really detest the idea that doors close on people as life goes on. We graduate High School and the world is our oyster, and over time, our chances to make the Olympics, or go to Harvard, or go to Hollywood and become a movie star either diminish or disappear entirely.
I hate to be the wet blanket in this discussion, but... and please don't take this as being mean-spirited, I think you really need to examine reality a little bit, here.
You have a 2.4 in one of the easiest majors a person could possibly get. Unless you sustained traumatic brain injury and your recovery took place during your undergraduate studies, it's going to be virtually impossible for you to pursuade an admissions committee that you've got what it takes to succeed in law school.
Really, you'd have to freakin' ace your LSAT just to get into a 4th tier school at this point. I was stunned on preview day to see the number of students who attended who were wait-listed, and I'm attending a 4T school. 20 years ago, those were virtually open enrollment. Now? I wouldn't say they're hard to get into, but they're nowhere near the point of accepting anybody just to fill the seats with warm bodies.
Federal judge? Wow. Really, just Wow. Is it impossible? Well... no, in the same way that winning the lottery is not impossible.
Is it adviseable? For you to spend six figures pursuing this? For you to give up 3 years of your professional life? Honestly, if I had to draw a line that took you from 2.4 with a communications degree to being a federal judge, it would involve you beating a thousand to 1 odds about 5 times in a row.
You'd have to get into law school (already an EXTREME longshot).
You'd have to finish pretty much first in your class in 1L. (Everybody envisions this when they start law school, but even the lowliest 4T law school has some intellectual mutants in there who are frighteningly smart.)
You'd have to transfer to a top law school after 1L. (A dicey proposition at best.)
You'd have to write-on to law review since chances are you wouldn't be able to grade-on as a transfer.
You'd probably need to get a clerkship with a federal judge after 2L.
You'd have to graduate at or near the top of your class.
Seriously? I like to believe that no doors are completely closed and that it's never too late to pursue your dream, but to be blunt: you're screwed. You stand virtually no chance of putting this together.
At this point, if you REALLY want to be an attorney, you need to focus on your next step, which will be to get a really good LSAT. Probably doesn't have to be perfect, but it should be darned good, like 80th %ile or better. (Keep in mind, this isn't 80th %ile for the general population. This is 80th %ile for people contemplating law school. Meaning you start with the 1/3 of the population who have the smarts to get a degree. Then, take the top 20% of them because the other 80% were lucky to get a bachelor's degree and won't ever be going to grad school. So... you need to test in the top 20% of probably the top 7% of the general population. Meaning, you need a test performance that probably puts you in the top 1% of the population at large.)
Even after you pull down that LSAT, you then need to carpet bomb the hell out of every 4T law school in the country, because with a 2.4, even if the LSAT is 60% of the decision, the other 40% is probably one of the lowest GPAs the admissions committee will likely see this year. Using the LSAC site as a guide, there isn't a single ABA accredited school in the country where 2.4 gets you anywhere near the 25th %ile. The situation is actually far more dire than that because, frankly, if you're not a URM, you're not going to be the one they admit with the lowest GPA. That's just the way it works.
There are multiple web-sites where they detail the incoming stats of 1Ls and you should try plugging in a 2.4 gpa and 155 on the LSAT and see what that gets you. The LSAC site doesn't paint a rosy picture, but it paints a far rosier picture than it should. Supposing you ace the LSAT, you'll be an "extreme splitter" and those are the students who these predictors do the worst job of predicting on. (As an example, I am also a splitter. I put in my numbers and the site gave me a 40% at CWRU. When I submitted my application, they rejected me, outright. So, just because the site says you're at, say, 35%, that's a long ways away from saying that 1/3 of the entering class has worse credentials than you do.)
https://officialguide.lsac.org/Release/UGPALSAT/UGPALSAT.aspxPursue this if it's your dream, but be aware: even though it seems like everybody and their cousin has a law degree, the percentage of attorneys who got a 2.4 in undergrad is almost imperceptibly small.
I don't mean to discourage, but just to give you a little reality-check before you spend 3 years and a hundred grand pursuing a federal judge position that is highly likely to be nearly impossible for you to get.