List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 10)
Law clerks have assisted Supreme Court Justices in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in the 1880s. By the traditions and rules that have developed around this procedure today Associate Justices on the Supreme Court of the United States have the opportunity to select four law clerks each term of the court. The Chief Justice is allowed five clerks, though late Chief Justice Rehnquist usually only hired three.
The following is a still-incomplete table of Supreme Court law clerks who served the Justice holding Seat 10.
- The names of Justices who are active (as of[update] Justice Samuel Alito's appointment on January 31, 2006) are in bold.
This seat was established on April 10, 1869 by the Circuit Judges Act of 1869 [see 16 Stat. 44]. |
Joseph Philo Bradley |
March 23, 1870 – January 22, 1892 |
George Shiras, Jr.
October 10, 1892 –
February 23, 1903
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Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
Eldwin Raphael Hayden |
1893 |
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William R. Day
March 2, 1903 –
November 13, 1922
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Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
Rufus Day |
1907 |
1911 |
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Rufus Day |
1917 |
1919 |
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Pierce Butler
January 2, 1923 –
November 16, 1939
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Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
John F. Cotter |
1923 |
1929 |
Catholic |
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Frank Murphy
February 5, 1940 –
July 19, 1949
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Tom C. Clark
August 24, 1949 –
June 12, 1967
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Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
Percy D. Williams |
1949 |
1949 |
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Donald F. Turner |
1950 |
1951 |
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Stuart W. Thayer |
1951 |
1952 |
Yale (1951) |
none |
C. Richard Walker |
1951 |
1952 |
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Vester T. Hughes |
1952 |
1952 (drafted, Korean War) |
Harvard (1952) |
none |
Frederick M. Rowe |
1952 |
1953 |
Yale (1952) |
none |
Bernard Weisberg |
1952 |
1953 |
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Ellis H. McKay |
1953 |
1954 |
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Ernest Rubenstein |
1953 |
1954 |
Yale (1953) |
none |
William Kenneth Jones |
1954 |
1955 |
Columbia (1954) |
none |
John Kaplan |
1954 |
1955 |
Harvard (1954) |
none |
Robert W. Hamilton |
1955 |
1956 |
Chicago (1955) |
none |
John E. Nolan |
1955 |
1956 |
Georgetown (1955) |
none |
John J. Crown |
1956 |
1957 |
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Harry L. Hobson |
1956 |
1957 |
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Robert Gorman |
1957 |
1958 |
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William D. Powell |
1957 |
1958 |
SMU (1957) |
none |
Charles H. Phillips |
1958 |
1959 |
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Max O. Truitt, Jr. |
1958 |
1959 |
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Larry E. Temple |
1959 |
1960 |
Texas (1959) |
none |
Cecil Wray, Jr. |
1959 |
1960 |
Yale (1959) |
none |
Carl Estes |
1960 |
1961 |
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Malachy T. Mahon |
1960 |
1961 |
Fordham (1960) |
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James E. Knox |
1961 |
1962 |
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Burk Mathes, Jr. |
1961 |
1962 |
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Raymond L. Brown |
1962 |
1963 |
Mississippi (1962) |
none |
Martin J. Flynn |
1962 |
1963 |
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James L. McHugh, Jr. |
1963 |
1964 |
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James H. Pipkin, Jr. |
1963 |
1964 |
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Michael Maupin |
1964 |
1965 |
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Shannon H. Ratliff |
1964 |
1965 |
Texas (1964) |
none |
Lee A. Freeman, Jr. |
1965 |
1966 |
Harvard (1965) |
none |
Charles D. Reed |
1965 |
1966 |
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Marshall Groce |
1966 |
1967 |
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Stuart Philip Ross |
1966 |
1967 |
GW (1966) |
none |
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Thurgood Marshall
October 2, 1967 –
October 1, 1991
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Clarence Thomas
October 23, 1991 –
present
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