List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 1)

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Law clerks have assisted Supreme Court Justices in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882.[1] 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 Chief Justice Rehnquist usually hired only three.[2]

The following is an incomplete table of Supreme Court law clerks serving the Justice holding Seat 1.

This seat was established on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 1 Stat. 73.
William Burnham Woods January 5, 1881 – May 14, 1887
Lucius Q. C. Lamar January 18, 1888 – January 23, 1893
Howell Edmunds Jackson March 4, 1893 – August 8, 1895

Rufus Wheeler Peckham

January 6, 1896 –

October 24, 1909
Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship
Jesse C. Ball 1895 1904
John E. Hoover 1904 1905
S. Edward Widdifield 1904 1909
Horace Harmon Lurton January 3, 1910 – July 12, 1914

James Clark McReynolds

October 12, 1914 –

January 31, 1941
Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship
Maurice J. Mahoney 1927 1929
Maurice J. Mahoney 1931 1934
John Frush Knox 1936 1937 Harvard (1936) none
John T. McHale 1937 1938 Van Devanter

James F. Byrnes

July 8, 1941 –

October 3, 1942
Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship
James E. Doyle 1941 1942 Columbia

Wiley Blount Rutledge

February 15, 1943 –

September 10, 1949
Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship
Victor Brudney 1943 Columbia (1940)
Harry L. Shniderman 1944 1945 Harvard (1941)
Richard F. Wolfson 1946 1947
John Paul Stevens 1947 1948 Northwestern (1947) none
Stanley L. Temko 1947 1948 Columbia (1943) none
Louis H. Pollak 1948 1949 Yale (1948) none
Philip W. Tone 1948 1949 Iowa (1948) none

Sherman Minton

October 12, 1949 –

October 15, 1956
Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship
Charles D. Kelso 1950 1951 Chicago (1950) none
Abner J. Mikva 1951 1952 Chicago (1951) none
William K. Bachelder 1952 1953
Harry L. Wallace 1952 1953 Harvard (1952) none

William Brennan

October 16, 1956 –

July 20, 1990
Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship
Clyde A. Szuch 1956 1957 Harvard (1955) none
Edward W. Keane 1957 1958 Harvard (1957) none
Daniel J. O'Hern 1957 1958 Harvard (1957) none
Peter M. Fishbein 1958 1959 Harvard (1958) none
Dennis G. Lyons 1958 1960 Harvard (1955) none
Jeffrey L. Nagin 1959 1960 Harvard (1959) none
Richard S. Arnold 1960 1961 Harvard (1960) none
Daniel A. Rezneck 1960 1961 Harvard (1959) none
Frank I. Michelman 1961 1962 Harvard (1960) none
Robert M. O'Neil 1962 1963 Harvard (1961) none
Richard A. Posner 1962 1963 Harvard (1962) none
Stephen R. Barnett 1963 1964 Harvard (1962) Friendly (2d Cir.)
Stephen J. Friedman 1963 1964 Harvard (1962)
S. Paul Posner 1964 1965 Harvard (1964) none
Owen M. Fiss 1965 1966 Harvard (1964) T. Marshall (2d Cir.)
Peter L. Strauss 1965 1966 Yale (1964) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Stephen M. Goodman 1966 1967 Penn (1965) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Abraham D. Sofaer 1966 1967 NYU (1965) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Raymond C. Fisher 1967 1968 Stanford (1966) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Joseph N. Onek 1968 1969 Yale (1967) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Robert M. Weinberg 1968 1969 Michigan (1968) none
Richard M. Cooper 1969 1970 Harvard (1969) none
W. Taylor Reveley, III 1969 1970 Virginia (1968) none
Loftus E. Becker 1970 1971 Penn (1969) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Richard Cotton 1970 1971 Yale (1969) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Michael C. Moran 1970 1971 Detroit (1969) G. Edwards (6th Cir.)
C. Taylor Ashworth 1971 1972 Texas (1971)
Gerald Goldman 1971 1972 Harvard (1968)
Paul R. Hoeber 1971 1972 Berkeley (1970) Browning (9th Cir.)
Edward R. Leahy 1972 1973 Boston College (1971) Aldisert (3d Cir.)
William J. Maledon 1972 1973 Notre Dame (1972) none
Gerald M. Rosberg 1972 1973 Harvard (1971) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Geoffrey R. Stone 1972 1973 Chicago (1971) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Thomas M. Jorde 1973 1974 Yale (1972) Weigel (N.D. Cal.)
Lawrence B. Pedowitz 1973 1974 NYU (1972) Friendly (2d Cir.)
Marsha S. Berzon 1974 1975 Berkeley (1973) Browning (9th Cir.)
Steven P. Goldberg 1974 1975 Yale (1973) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Richard J. Bronstein 1975 1976 Chicago (1974) S. Robinson (D.C. Cir.)
Stanley C. Fickle 1975 1976 Indiana (1974) Eschbach (N.D. Ind.)
Barry S. Simon 1975 1976 Harvard (1974) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Alan B. Sternstein 1975 1976 Arizona (1975) Douglas
Robert B. Shanks 1976 1977 University of Virginia (1975) Tamm (D.C. Cir.)
William A. Fletcher 1976 1977 Yale (1975) Weigel (N.D. Cal.)
Stuart J. Baskin 1976 1977 Stanford (1975) Mansfield (2d Cir.)
Gerard E. Lynch 1976 1977 Columbia (1975) Feinberg (2d Cir.)
David W. Carpenter 1977 1978 Boston (1975) Coffin (1st Cir.)
Carmen D. Legato 1977 1978 Catholic (1976)
F. Whitten Peters 1977 1978 Harvard (1976) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Steven A. Reiss 1977 1978 Stanford (1976) Wisdom (5th Cir.)
Merrick B. Garland 1978 1979 Harvard (1977) Friendly (2d Cir.)
Robert C. Post 1978 1979 Yale (1977) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Michael B. Chertoff 1979 1980 Harvard (1978) Gurfein (2d Cir.)
Jeffrey J. Rosen 1979 1980 Harvard (1978) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Jerold S. Kayden 1980 1981 Harvard (1979) Oakes (2d Cir.)
Michael W. McConnell 1980 1981 Chicago (1979) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Michael Rubin 1980 1981 Georgetown (1977) Renfrew (N.D. Cal.) Browning (9th Cir.)
Elliot E. Polebaum 1980 1981 NYU (1977) Oakes (2d Cir.)
Mark S. Campisano 1981 1982 Yale (1980) Feinberg (2d Cir.)
Clifton S. Elgarten 1981 1982 Cardozo (1979) L. Pollak (E.D. Pa.)
Frederick C. Lowinger 1981 1982 Chicago (1980) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Mary L. Mikva 1981 1982 Northwestern (1980) P. Marshall (N.D. Ill.)
Perry Dane 1982 1983 Yale (1981) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Edward J. Kelly III 1982 1983 Virginia (1981) Haynsworth (4th Cir.)
John H. Schapiro 1982 1983 Stanford (1981) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Charles S. Treat 1982 1983 Chicago (1980) Wisdom (5th Cir.)
Jeffrey B. Kindler 1983 1984 Harvard (1980) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Michael Klausner 1983 1984 Yale (1981) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Bruce R. Lerner 1983 1984 Penn (1982) Mikva (D.C. Cir.)
John F. Savarese 1983 1984 Harvard (1981) L. Pollak (E.D. Pa.)
Charles G. Curtis, Jr. 1984 1985 Chicago (1982) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
James A. Feldman 1984 1985 Harvard (1983) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Michael D. Rips 1984 1985 GW (1982) Politz (5th Cir.)
Donald B. Verrilli 1984 1985 Columbia (1983) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Marie R. Deveney 1985 1986 Michigan (1984) H. Edwards (D.C. Cir.)
Jay M. Fujitani 1985 1986 Berkeley (1984) Weigel (N.D. Cal.)
Dean M. Hashimoto 1985 1986 Yale (1984) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Larry D. Kramer 1985 1986 Chicago (1984) Friendly (2d Cir.)
Jeffrey T. Leeds 1985 1986 Harvard (1983) none
Evan H. Caminker 1986 1987 Yale (1986) W. Norris (9th Cir.)
Mark E. Haddad 1986 1987 Yale (1985) L. Pollak (E.D. Pa.)
Milton C. Regan, Jr. 1986 1987 Georgetown (1985) R. B. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.)
Virginia A. Seitz 1986 1987 Buffalo (1985) H. Edwards (D.C. Cir.)
Einer R. Elhauge 1987 1988 Harvard (1986) W. Norris (9th Cir.)
Mark H. Epstein 1987 1988 Berkeley (1985) Weigel (N.D. Cal.) / Panelli (Cal.)
Joseph R. Guerra 1987 1988 Georgetown (1985) J. Green (D.D.C.)
E. Joshua Rosenkranz 1987 1988 Georgetown (1986) Scalia (D.C. Cir.) / S. Williams (D.C. Cir.)
Timothy S. Bishop 1988 1989 Northwestern (1985) Oakes (2d Cir.)
Lisa Heinzerling 1988 1989 Chicago (1987) Posner (7th Cir.)
John M. West 1988 1989 Michigan (1987) H. Edwards (D.C. Cir.)
Nory Miller 1989 1990 Columbia (1988) Mikva (D.C. Cir.)
Jonathan S. Massey 1989 1990 Harvard (1988) Mikva (D.C. Cir.)
James E. Castello 1990 1991 Berkeley (1986) Mikva (D.C. Cir.)
Hugh W. Baxter 1991 1992 Stanford (1990) R. B. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.)
Julius Genachowski 1992 1993 Harvard (1991) Mikva (D.C. Cir.)
Steven G. Krone (shared with Souter) 1993 1994 Chicago (1992) Mikva (D.C. Cir.)
Lawrence A. Kasten(shared with Souter) 1994 1995 GW (1992) Schroeder (9th Cir.)
Steven L. Chanenson (shared with Souter) 1995 1996 Chicago (1992) Kravitch (11th Cir.)

David Souter

October 9, 1990 –

June 29, 2009
Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship
Meir Feder 1990 1991 Harvard (1989) W. Norris (9th Cir.)
John J. Sullivan 1990 1991 Columbia (1985) Wisdom (5th Cir.)
Paul E. Salamanca 1990 1991 Boston College (1989) Souter (1st Cir.)
Peter J. Spiro 1990 1991 Virginia (1987) S. Williams (D.C. Cir.)
William D. Araiza 1991 1992 Yale (1990) W. Norris (9th Cir.)
Henk J. Brands 1991 1992 Columbia (1989) S. Breyer (1st Cir.)
Jonathan E. Nuechterlein 1991 1992 Yale (1990) S. Williams (D.C. Cir.)
Peter J. Rubin 1991 1992 Harvard Seitz (3d Cir.)
Robert Brauneis 1992 1993 Harvard (1989) S. Breyer (1st Cir.)
Steven M. Dunne 1992 1993 Stanford (1990) S. Williams (D.C. Cir.)
Mark L. Movsesian 1992 1993 Harvard (1988) H. Winter (4th Cir.)
Peter J. Rubin 1992 1993 Harvard Souter
Michael S. Barr 1993 1994 Yale (1992) Leval (S.D.N.Y.)
Julius Genachowski 1993 1994 Harvard (1991) Brennan
David T. Goldberg 1993 1994 Harvard (1991) R. B. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.)
Steven G. Krone (shared with Brennan) 1993 1994 Chicago (1992) Mikva (D.C. Cir.)
Alison M. Tucher 1993 1994 Stanford (1992) W. Norris (9th Cir.)
H. Kent Greenfield 1994 1995 Chicago (1992) L. Campbell (1st Cir.)
Daniel H. Halberstam 1994 1995 Yale (1993) Wald (D.C. Cir.)
Riyaz A. Kanji 1994 1995 Yale (1991) B. Fletcher (9th Cir.)
Max I. Stier 1994 1995 Stanford (1992) Oakes (2d Cir.)
Stuart M. Benjamin 1995 1996 Yale (1991) Canby (9th Cir.)
Steven L. Chanenson (shared with Brennan) 1995 1996 Chicago (1992) Kravitch (11th Cir.)
Heather K. Gerken 1995 1996 Michigan (1994) Reinhardt (9th Cir.)
Craig T. Goldblatt 1995 1996 Chicago (1993) Cudahy (7th Cir.)
Ernest A. Young 1995 1996 Harvard (1993) Boudin (1st Cir.)
William M. Hohengarten 1996 1997 Yale (1994) Newman (2d Cir.)
Ellen D. Katz 1996 1997 Yale (1994) J. A. W. Rogers (D.C. Cir.)
Gerald F. Leonard 1996 1997 Michigan (1995) J. D. Phillips (4th Cir.)
Timothy J. Simeone 1996 1997 Chicago (1994) Wald (D.C. Cir.)
Thomas B. Colby 1997 1998 Harvard (1996) Calabresi (2d Cir.)
Deborah L. Hamilton 1997 1998 Michigan (1996)
Mary-Rose Papandrea 1997 1998 Chicago (1995) D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.) / Koeltl (S.D.N.Y.)
Jonathan G. Cedarbaum 1998 1999 Yale (1996) Tatel (D.C. Cir.)
Nestor M. Davidson 1998 1999 Columbia (1997) Tatel (D.C. Cir.)
Noah R. Feldman 1998 1999 Yale (1997) H. Edwards (D.C. Cir.)
Catherine M. Sharkey 1998 1999 Yale (1997) Calabresi (2d Cir.)
Jay L. Koh 1999 2000 Yale (1998) Boudin (1st Cir.)
Benjamin L. Liebman 1999 2000 Harvard (1998) S. Lynch (1st Cir.)
Kermit Roosevelt III 1999 2000 Yale (1997) S. Williams (D.C. Cir.)
Rebecca L. Tushnet 1999 2000 Yale (1998) Becker (3d Cir.)
Kevin C. Newsom 2000 2001 Harvard (1997) O'Scannlain (9th Cir.)
Kenneth A. Bamberger 2000 2001 Harvard (1998) Kearse (2d Cir.)
Molly S. Van Houweling 2000 2001 Harvard (1998) Boudin (1st Cir.)
Matthew C. Waxman 2000 2001 Yale (1998) Flaum (7th Cir.)
Benjamin Gruenstein 2001 2002 Harvard (1999) S. Williams (D.C. Cir.)
Thomas H. Lee 2001 2002 Harvard (2000) Boudin (1st Cir.)
Ann M. Lipton 2001 2002 Harvard (2000) Becker (3d Cir.)
Monica W. Rothbaum 2001 2002 NYU (1999) H. Edwards (D.C. Cir.)
Mark C. Fleming 2002 2003 Harvard (1997) Boudin (1st Cir.)
Jesse M. Furman 2002 2003 Yale (1998) Cabranes (2d Cir.)
Derek T. Ho 2002 2003 Harvard (2001) Boudin (1st Cir.)
Sarah L. Levine 2002 2003 Yale (2000) H. Edwards (D.C. Cir.)
Julian D. Mortenson 2003 2004 Stanford (2002) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Samuel J. Rascoff 2003 2004 Yale (2001) Leval (2d Cir.)
Jeannie C. Suk 2003 2004 Harvard (2002) H. Edwards (D.C. Cir.)
Gregory G. Rapawy 2003 2004 Harvard (2001) S. Lynch (1st Cir.)
Catherine M.A. Carroll 2004 2005 Michigan (2002) H. Edwards (D.C. Cir.)
Matthew S. Hellman 2004 2005 Harvard (2002) Boudin (1st Cir.)
Christine B. Van Aken 2004 2005 NYU (2002) Leval (2d Cir.)
Daniel S. Volchok 2004 2005 Harvard (2003) Tatel (D.C. Cir.)
Jeanne C. Fromer 2005 2006 Harvard (2002) Sack (2d Cir.)
Meaghan McLaine 2005 2006 Harvard (2004) Garland (D.C. Cir.)
Jon D. Michaels 2005 2006 Yale (2003) Calabresi (2d Cir.)
Allison Orr (Larsen) 2005 2006 Virginia (2004) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Boris Bershteyn 2006 2007 Yale (2004) Cabranes (2d Cir.)
David S. Han 2006 2007 Harvard (2005) Boudin (1st Cir.)
Bryan W. Leach 2006 2007 Yale (2005) Cabranes (2d Cir.)
Daniel B. Tenny 2006 2007 Michigan (2005) Tatel (D.C. Cir.)
Bert I. Huang 2007 2008 Harvard (2003) Boudin (1st Cir.)
Leslie Kendrick 2007 2008 Virginia (2006) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Michael J. Mongan 2007 2008 Stanford (2006) Garland (D.C. Cir.)
Micah W.J. Smith 2007 2008 Harvard (2006) Calabresi (2d Cir.)
Erin Delaney 2008 2009 NYU (2007) Calabresi (2d Cir.)
Michael Gerber 2008 2009 Yale (2005) Leval (2d Cir.)
Warren D. Postman 2008 2009 Harvard (2007) W. Fletcher (9th Cir.)
Noah G. Purcell 2008 2009 Harvard (2007) Tatel (D.C. Cir.)
Thomas G. Pulham (shared with Breyer) 2009 2010 Yale (2004) Katzmann (2d Cir.) / Cote (S.D.N.Y.)
Brook Hopkins (shared with Breyer) 2010 2011 Harvard (2007) Reinhardt (9th Cir.)
Matthew Tokson (shared with Ginsburg) 2011 2012 Chicago (2008) Randolph (D.C. Cir.)
Anthony Vitarelli (shared with Breyer) 2012 2013 Yale (2009) Griffith (D.C. Cir.)
Ryan Park (shared with Ginsburg) 2013 Harvard (2010) Katzmann (2d Cir.) / Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.)

Sonia Sotomayor

August 8, 2009 –

present
Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship
Jeremy C. Marwell 2009 2010 NYU (2006) S. Williams (D.C. Cir.)
Eloise Pasachoff 2009 2010 Harvard (2004) Katzmann (2d Cir.) / Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.)
Lindsey Powell 2009 2010 Stanford (2007) Stevens / Garland (D.C. Cir.)
Robert M. Yablon 2009 2010 Yale (2006) R. B. Ginsburg / W. Fletcher (9th Cir.)
Kevin P. Arlyck 2010 2011 NYU (2008) Katzmann (2d Cir.)
Thomas S. Lue 2010 2011 Harvard (2005) Raggi (2d Cir.) / G. Lynch (S.D.N.Y.)
Abby M. Mollen 2010 2011 Northwestern (2008) Tatel (D.C. Cir.)
Amy Mason Saharia 2010 2011 Duke (2005) Newman (2d Cir.) / Chatigny (D. Conn.)
Michael Bern 2011 2012 Harvard (2008) McConnell (10th Cir.)
Mark Hiller 2011 2012 Virginia (2009) Sack (2d Cir.)
Daniel Habib 2011 2012 Yale (2010) W. Fletcher (9th Cir.)
Jane Kucera 2011 2012 Harvard (2008) Gorsuch (10th Cir.)
Brian Burgess 2012 2013 NYU (2009) Tatel (D.C. Cir.) / Calabresi (2d Cir.)
Brian Goldman 2012 2013 Stanford (2010) Reinhardt (9th Cir.)
Scott Grinsell 2012 2013 Yale (2009) Pooler (2d Cir.)
Charlotte Taylor 2012 2013 NYU (2007) Katzmann (2d Cir.) / Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.)
Fred Smith 2013 Stanford (2007) B. Parker (2d Cir.) / M. Thompson (M.D. Al.)
Sparkle L. Sooknanan 2013 Brooklyn (2010) Calabresi (2d Cir.) / Vitaliano (E.D.N.Y.)
Aaron Tang 2013 Stanford (2011) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Daniel Winik 2013 Yale (2011) Reinhardt (9th Cir.)

References

  1. ↑ Peppers, Todd C. (2006). Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk. Stanford University Press. p. 1.
  2. ↑ Peppers, Todd C. (2006). Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk. Stanford University Press. p. 195.