Stephen Breyer , 97th Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, clerked for Justice
Arthur Goldberg during the 1963–64 term.
Law clerks have assisted the justices of the United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882.[1] Each justice is permitted to have between three and four law clerks per Court . Most persons serving in this capacity are recent law school graduates (and typically graduated at the top of their class).[2] Among their many functions, clerks do legal research that assists justices in deciding what cases to accept and what questions to ask during oral arguments, prepare memoranda , and draft orders and opinions .[3] After retiring from the Court, a justice may continue to employ a law clerk, who may be assigned to provide additional assistance to an active justice or may assist the retired justice when sitting by designation with a lower court.
Table of law clerks [ ]
The following is a table of law clerks serving the associate justice holding Supreme Court seat 2 (the Court's second associate justice seat by the order of precedence of the inaugural associate justices[a] ) which was established on September 24, 1789 by the 1st Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789 (1 Stat. 73 ).[4] This seat is currently occupied by Justice Stephen Breyer .
Seat 2 associate justices and law clerks
Horace Gray
January 9, 1882 –
Clerk
Started
Finished
School (year)
Previous clerkship
Thomas A. Russell
1882
1883
Harvard (1882)
William Schofield
1883
1885
Harvard (1883)
none
1885
1886
Harvard (1885)
1886
1887
Harvard (1886)
1887
1888
Harvard (1886)
Samuel Williston
1888
1889
Harvard (1888)
none
Blewett Harrison Lee
1889
1890
Harvard (1888)
1890
1891
Harvard (1890)
Ezra Ripley Thayer
1891
1892
Harvard (1891)
1892
1893
Harvard (1892)
1892
1893
Harvard (1893)
1894
1895
Harvard (1894)
Jeremiah Smith, Jr.
1895
1896
Harvard (1895)
1896
1897
Harvard (1896)
1897
1898
Harvard (1894)
1898
1899
Harvard (1898)
John Gorham Palfrey
1899
1900
Harvard (1899)
Joseph Warren
1900
1901
Harvard (1900)
1901
1902
Harvard (1901)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
December 8, 1902 –
Clerk
Started
Finished
School (year)
Previous clerkship
1903
1906
GW-Columbian (1905)
1906
1907
Harvard (1906)
none
1907
1908
Harvard (1907)
Erland F. Fish
1908
1909
Harvard (1908)
1909
1910
Harvard (1909)
Irving S. Olds
1910
1911
Harvard (1910)
none
Francis B. Biddle
1911
1912
Harvard (1911)
none
1912
1913
Harvard (1912)
George L. Harrison
1913
1914
Harvard (1913)
Harvey Hollister Bundy
1914
1915
Harvard (1914)
1915
1916
Harvard (1915)
1916
1917
Harvard (1916)
Vaughn Miller
1917
1918
Harvard (1917)
1918
1919
Harvard (1918)
Stanley Morrison
1919
1920
Harvard (1917)
1920
1921
Harvard (1920)
Laurence Curtis
1921
1922
Harvard (1921)
none
1922
1923
Harvard (1922)
1923
1924
Harvard (1923)
1924
1925
Harvard (1924)
none
Charles Denby, Jr.
1925
1926
Harvard (1925)
Thomas Gardiner Corcoran
1926
1927
Harvard (1926)
1927
1928
Harvard (1925)
1928
1929
Harvard (1928)
Alger Hiss
1929
1930
Harvard (1929)
none
1930
1931
Harvard (1930)
1931
1932
Harvard (1931)
Donald Hiss
1932
1933
Harvard (1932)
1933
1934
Harvard (1933)
1934
1935
Harvard (1934)
Benjamin N. Cardozo
March 14, 1932 –
Clerk
Started
Finished
School (year)
Previous clerkship
1932
1932
Fordham (1921)
1932
1933
Harvard (1932)
1933
1934
Columbia (1932)
Ainsworth (5th Cir. )
1934
1936
Yale (1934)
Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
1936
July 9, 1938
Harvard (1935)
Felix Frankfurter
January 30, 1939 –
Clerk
Started
Finished
School (year)
Previous clerkship
Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
January 30, 1939
1939
Harvard (1935)
Cardozo
Adrian S. Fisher
January 30, 1939
1940
Harvard (1937)
Brandeis
January 30, 1939
1940
Harvard (1938)
none
Philip L. Graham
1940
1941
Harvard (1939)
S. F. Reed
Philip Elman
1941
1943
Harvard (1939)
Magruder (1st Cir. )
Stanley M. Silverberg
1943
1944
Harvard (1942)
L. Hand (2d Cir. )
1944
1945
Harvard (1943)
Edgerton (D.C. Cir. )
Philip B. Kurland
1945
1946
Harvard (1944)
J. Frank (2d Cir. )
Louis Henkin
1946
1947
Harvard (1940)
L. Hand (2d Cir. )
1947
1948
Harvard (1942)
Magruder (1st Cir. )
Albert J. Rosenthal
1947
1948
Harvard (1941)
Magruder (1st Cir. )
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.
1948
1949
Harvard (1946)
Goodrich (3d Cir. )
Elliot L. Richardson
1948
1949
Harvard (1947)
L. Hand (2d Cir. )
Albert M. Sacks
1949
1950
Harvard (1948)
A. Hand (2d Cir. )
1949
1950
Harvard (1948)
A. Hand (2d Cir. )
1950
1951
Harvard (1949)
A. Hand (2d Cir. )
Hugh Calkins
1950
1951
Harvard (1949)
L. Hand (2d Cir. )
Vincent L. McKusick
1951
1952
Harvard (1950)
L. Hand (2d Cir. )
Abram Chayes
1951
1952
Harvard (1949)
1952
1953
Harvard (1951)
none
Alexander M. Bickel
1952
1953
Harvard (1952)
Magruder (1st Cir. )
Frank E.A. Sander
1953
1954
Harvard (1952)
Magruder (1st Cir. )
James Vorenberg
1953
1954
Harvard (1951)
none
1954
1957
Harvard (1954)
none
E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.
November 1954
1955
Virginia (1953)
R. H. Jackson
1954
1955
Harvard (1952)
1954
1955
Harvard (1952)
Harry H. Wellington
1955
1956
Harvard (1952)
Magruder (1st Cir. )
Jerome A. Cohen
1956
1957
Yale (1955)
Warren
1957
1958
Yale (1955)
Traynor (California )
1957
1958
Harvard (1954)
Richard N. Goodwin
1958
1959
Harvard (1958)
none
1958
1959
Harvard (1957)
(PA CP6 )
Paul Bender
1959
1960
Harvard (1957)
L. Hand (2d Cir. )
1959
1960
Harvard (1958)
Anthony G. Amsterdam
1960
1961
Penn (1960)
none
1960
1961
Harvard (1960)
none
1960
1961
Harvard (1960)
none
1961
1962
Harvard (1961)
David P. Currie
1961
1962
Harvard (1960)
Friendly (2d Cir. )
Arthur Goldberg
October 1, 1962 –July 25, 1965
Clerk
Started
Finished
School (year)
Previous clerkship
(hired by Frankfurter )
1962
1963
Harvard (1958)
Peter B. Edelman (hired by Frankfurter )
1962
1963
Harvard (1961)
Friendly (2d Cir. )
Alan M. Dershowitz
1963
1964
Yale (1962)
Bazelon (D.C. Cir. )
1963
1964
Chicago (1963)
none
Stephen G. Breyer
1964
1965
Harvard (1964)
none
1964
1965
Penn (1962)
none
Abe Fortas
October 4, 1965 –
Clerk
Started
Finished
School (year)
Previous clerkship
John Griffiths
1965
1967
Yale (1965)
1965
1967
Harvard (1964)
Weinfeld (S.D.N.Y. )
1967
1968
Harvard (1966)
none
Peter L. Zimroth
1967
1968
Yale (1966)
Bazelon (D.C. Cir. )
Martha A. Field (Alschuler) (Boudin)
1968
1969
Chicago (1968)
none
Walter B. Slocombe
1968
1969
Harvard (1968)
none
Harry Blackmun
June 9, 1970 –
Clerk
Started
Finished
School (year)
Previous clerkship
1970
1971
Harvard (1969)
Blackmun (8th Cir. )
1970
1971
Michigan (1969)
Schaefer (Ill. )
1970
1972
American (1970)
none
George T. Frampton Jr.
1971
1972
Harvard (1969)
1971
1972
Yale (1969)
Bazelon (D.C. Cir. )
1972
1973
Iowa (1971)
R. Robb (D.C. Cir. )
1972
1973
Texas (1972)
none
1972
1973
GW (1972)
none
1973
1974
Harvard (1972)
R. Robb (D.C. Cir. )
1973
1974
Chicago (1972)
I. Goldberg (5th Cir. )
1973
1974
Penn State (1973)
Richard Blumenthal
1974
1975
Yale (1973)
Newman (D. Conn. )
Karen Nelson Moore
1974
1975
Harvard (1973)
Wilkey (D.C. Cir. )
1974
1975
Vanderbilt (1972)
Mehaffy (8th Cir. )
William H. Block
1975
1977
Chicago (1974)
McGowan (D.C. Cir. )
1975
1976
Chicago (1972)
(6th Cir. )
1975
1976
Harvard (1974)
McGowan (D.C. Cir. )
1976
1977
Harvard (1975)
Kaplan (Mass. )
Richard K. Willard
1976
1977
Harvard (1975)
A. Kennedy (9th Cir. )
Diane Pamela Wood
1976
1977
Texas (1975)
I. Goldberg (5th Cir. )
Keith P. Ellison
1977
1978
Yale (1976)
J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir. )
1977
1978
Virginia (1976)
Wisdom (5th Cir. )
Ruth N. Glushien (Wedgwood)
1977
1978
Yale (1976)
Friendly (2d Cir. )
1977
1978
Michigan (1976)
McCree (6th Cir. )
Albert G. Lauber
1978
1979
Yale (1977)
Wilkey (D.C. Cir. )
1978
1979
Virginia (1977)
Seitz (3d Cir. )
Thomas W. Merrill
1978
1979
Chicago (1977)
Bazelon (D.C. Cir. )
1978
1979
Virginia (1976)
Roney (5th Cir. )
Dan T. Coenen
1979
1980
Cornell (1978)
Haynsworth (4th Cir. )
Penda D. Hair
1979
1980
Harvard (1978)
Feinberg (2d Cir. )
William J. Murphy
1979
1980
Penn (1978)
Seitz (3d Cir. )
1979
1980
Yale (1978)
Gurfein (2d Cir. )
1980
1981
Yale (1979)
Gesell (D.D.C. )
1980
1981
Virginia (1979)
Butzner (4th Cir. )
1980
1981
Columbia (1979)
1980
1981
Yale (1979)
Feinberg (2d Cir. )
Frank S. Holleman III
1981
1982
Harvard (1979)
H. Winter (4th Cir. )
M. Kathleen ("Kit") Kinports
1981
1982
Penn (1980)
Mikva (D.C. Cir. )
Harold Hongju Koh
1981
1982
Harvard (1980)
Wilkey (D.C. Cir. )
1981
1982
Chicago (1980)
S. Robinson (D.C. Cir. )
1982
1983
Duke (1981)
Oakes (2d Cir. )
David W. Ogden
1982
1983
Harvard (1981)
Sofaer (S.D.N.Y. )
1982
1983
Stanford (1980)
B. Fletcher (9th Cir. )
David E. Van Zandt
1982
1983
Yale (1981)
Leval (S.D.N.Y. )
1983
1984
Yale (1982)
Bazelon (D.C. Cir. )
1983
1984
Harvard (1982)
S. Breyer (1st Cir. )
1983
1984
Virginia (1982)
Coffin (1st Cir. )
1983
1984
Stanford (1982)
Choy (9th Cir. )
Vicki Been
1984
1985
NYU (1983)
Weinfeld (S.D.N.Y. )
1984
1985
Stanford (1981)
Sofaer (S.D.N.Y. ) / Farris (9th Cir. )
1984
1985
Columbia (1983)
Oakes (2d Cir. )
Robert A. Green
1984
1985
Georgetown (1983)
H. Edwards (D.C. Cir. )
1985
1986
NYU (1983)
Mikva (D.C. Cir. )
Pamela S. Karlan
1985
1986
Yale (1984)
Sofaer (S.D.N.Y. )
Helane L. Morrison
1985
1986
Berkeley (1984)
Posner (7th Cir. )
1985
1986
Harvard (1984)
Mikva (D.C. Cir. )
Beth S. Brinkmann
1986
1987
Yale (1985)
Kravitch (11th Cir. )
1986
1987
Michigan (1985)
H. Edwards (D.C. Cir. )
Chai Rachel Feldblum
1986
1987
Harvard (1985)
Coffin (1st Cir. )
Emily Buss
1987
1988
Yale (1986)
L. Pollak (E.D. Pa. )
1987
1988
NYU (1986)
Mikva (D.C. Cir. )
1987
1988
Harvard (1986)
Wald (D.C. Cir. )
Alan C. Michaels
1987
1988
Columbia (1986)
Feinberg (2d Cir. )
Edward B. Foley
1988
1989
Columbia (1986)
P. Wald (D.C. Cir. )
1988
1989
Emory (1987)
J. Oakes (2d Cir. )
Edward Lazarus
1988
1989
Yale (1987)
W. Norris (9th Cir. )
1988
1989
Chicago (1986)
L. Pollak (E.D. Pa. )
Vikram D. Amar
1989
1990
Yale (1988)
W. Norris (9th Cir. )
1989
1990
Georgia (1988)
Edmondson (11th Cir. )
1989
1990
Berkeley (1987)
S. Breyer (1st Cir. )
1989
1990
Yale (1988)
Wald (D.C. Circuit )
1990
1991
Stanford (1989)
W. Norris (9th Cir. )
1990
1991
Harvard (1988)
Justice (E.D. Tex. )
1990
1991
Boston University (1989)
Mikva (D.C. Cir. )
Alan Jenkins
1990
1991
Harvard (1989)
R. Carter (S.D.N.Y. )
Jeffrey A. Meyer
1991
1992
Yale (1991)
Oakes (2d Cir. )
1991
1992
Yale (1991)
Leval (S.D.N.Y. )
1991
1992
Harvard (1989)
D. W. Nelson (9th Cir. )
1991
1992
Chicago (1990)
Mikva (D.C. Cir. )
Hugh W. Baxter (shared with Brennan )
1993
1994
Stanford (1990)
R. B. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir. )
1992
1993
Harvard (1991)
Feinberg (2d Cir. )
William S. Dodge
1992
1993
Yale (1991)
W. Norris (9th Cir. )
1992
1993
Yale (1990)
Wald (D.C. Cir. ) / Cabranes (D. Conn. )
Andrew H. Schapiro
1992
1993
Harvard (1990)
Posner (7th Cir. )
(shared with Marshall )
1992
1993
Harvard (1990)
Cudahy (7th Cir. )
Michelle L. Alexander
1993
1994
Stanford (1992)
Mikva (D.C. Cir. )
Sarah H. Cleveland
1993
1994
Yale (1992)
Oberdorfer (D.D.C. )
1993
1994
Duke (1992)
Wald (D.C. Cir. )
J. Paul Oetken
1993
1994
Yale (1991)
Cudahy (7th Cir. ) / Oberdorfer (D.D.C. )
(shared with Breyer )
1994
1995
North Carolina (1992)
Kravitch (11th Cir. )
Michael J. Wishnie (shared with Breyer )
1995
1996
Yale (1993)
Sarokin (3d Cir. )
(shared with Breyer )
1996
1997
Yale (1995)
W. Norris (9th Cir. )
Laura A. Dickinson (shared with Breyer )
1997
1998
Yale (1996)
D. W. Nelson (9th Cir. )
(shared with Breyer )
1998
1999
Columbia (1996)
Garland (D.C. Cir. ) / Cote (S.D.N.Y. )
Stephen Breyer
August 3, 1994 –
Clerk
Started
Finished
School (year)
Previous clerkship
1994
1995
Columbia (1990)
Souter / S. Breyer (1st Cir. )
Lisa Schultz (Bressman)
1994
1995
Chicago (1993)
Cabranes (D. Conn. )
1994
1995
Harvard (1991)
Powell / S. Harris (D.D.C. )
1994
1995
Harvard (1992)
S. Breyer (1st Cir. )
(shared with Blackmun )
1994
1995
North Carolina (1992)
Kravitch (11th Cir. )
Yochai Benkler
1995
1996
Harvard (1994)
none
Jennifer Gillian Newstead
1995
1996
Yale (1994)
Silberman (D.C. Cir. )
1995
1996
Yale (1994)
W. Norris (9th Cir. )
Michael J. Wishnie (shared with Blackmun )
1995
1996
Yale (1993)
Sarokin (3d Cir. )
Neal K. Katyal
1996
1997
Yale (1995)
Calabresi (2d Cir. )
1996
1997
Harvard (1995)
Bownes (1st Cir. )
1996
1997
Harvard (1995)
Boudin (1st Cir. )
1996
1997
Chicago (1995)
Posner (7th Cir. )
(shared with Blackmun )
1996
1997
Yale (1995)
W. Norris (9th Cir. )
1997
1998
Yale (1996)
Calabresi (2d Cir. )
Charles C. Moore
1997
1998
Stanford (1995)
Tatel (D.C. Cir. )
1997
1998
Harvard (1995)
Boudin (1st Cir. )
Caitlin Halligan
1997
1998
Georgetown (1995)
Wald (D.C. Cir. )
Laura A. Dickinson (shared with Blackmun )
1997
1998
Yale (1996)
D. W. Nelson (9th Cir. )
1998
1999
Michigan (1995)
D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir. )
1998
1999
Chicago (1997)
Posner (7th Cir. )
Jennifer S. ("Jenny") Martinez
1998
1999
Harvard (1997)
Calabresi (2d Cir. )
1998
1999
Harvard (1996)
Silberman (D.C. Cir. )
(shared with Blackmun )
1998
1999
Columbia (1996)
Garland (D.C. Cir. ) / Cote (S.D.N.Y. )
1999
2000
Harvard (1998)
Boudin (1st Cir. )
1999
2000
Harvard (1998)
Silberman (D.C. Cir. )
Ketanji Brown Jackson
1999
2000
Harvard (1996)
Selya (1st Cir. ) / Saris (D. Mass. )
Tim Wu
1999
2000
Harvard (1998)
Posner (7th Cir. )
2000
2001
Harvard (1999)
Calabresi (2d Cir. )
2000
2001
Stanford (1998)
Reinhardt (9th Cir. ) / Illston (N.D. Cal. )
2000
2001
Harvard (1998)
D. W. Nelson (9th Cir. )
Alexander A. Reinert
2000
2001
NYU (1999)
H. Edwards (D.C. Cir. )
Vince Chhabria
2001
2002
Berkeley (1998)
Browning (9th Cir. ) / C. Breyer (N.D. Cal. )
Risa L. Goluboff
2001
2002
Yale (2000)
Calabresi (2d Cir. )
2001
2002
Duke (2000)
Wardlaw (9th Cir. )
Michael E. Leiter
2001
2002
Harvard (2000)
Boudin (1st Cir. )
2002
2003
Yale (2001)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
2002
2003
Harvard (2000)
Boudin (1st Cir. )
2002
2003
Yale (2000)
Calabresi (2d Cir. )
2002
2003
Harvard (2001)
Calabresi (2d Cir. )
2003
2004
NYU (2001)
H. Edwards (D.C. Cir. )
Pratik A. Shah
2003
2004
Berkeley (2001)
W. Fletcher (9th Cir. )
2003
2004
Stanford (2001)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
2003
2004
Harvard (2002)
Boudin (1st Cir. )
2004
2005
Yale (1998)
Cabranes (2d Cir. )
2004
2005
Boston College (2000)
Scirica (3d Cir. )
2004
2005
Stanford (2002)
Tatel (D.C. Cir. )
Jacob J. Sullivan
2004
2005
Yale (2003)
Calabresi (2d Cir. )
Danielle C. Gray
2005
2006
Harvard (2003)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
2005
2006
Stanford (2004)
Posner (7th Cir. )
2005
2006
Yale (2004)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
2005
2006
Georgia (1999)
D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir. ) / V. Walker (N.D. Cal. )
2006
2007
Columbia (2004)
Jacobs (2d Cir. ) / K. Wood (S.D.N.Y. )
2006
2007
Chicago (2004)
Posner (7th Cir. )
2006
2007
Harvard (2005)
Boudin (1st Cir. )
Thiruvendran Vignarajah
2006
2007
Harvard (2005)
Calabresi (2d Cir. )
(shared with O'Connor )
2006
2007
Harvard (2004)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
2007
2008
Yale (2003)
Katzmann (2d Cir. ) / Rakoff (S.D.N.Y. )
2007
2008
Yale (2006)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
2007
2008
Stanford (2005)
Wilkinson (4th Cir. )
2007
2008
Columbia (2003)
A. Williams (7th Cir. )
2008
2009
Yale (2005)
Katzmann (2d Cir. ) / Rakoff (S.D.N.Y. )
Seth Grossman
2008
2009
Yale (2005)
Calabresi (2d Cir. ) / Reinhardt (9th Cir. )
2008
2009
Harvard (2007)
Boudin (1st Cir. )
2008
2009
Harvard (2006)
Boudin (1st Cir. )
2009
2010
Harvard (2008)
Reinhardt (9th Cir. )
2009
2010
Yale (2006)
W. Fletcher (9th Cir. ) / L. Pollak (E.D. Pa. )
2009
2010
Harvard (2007)
Wilkinson (4th Cir. )
Jennifer H.J. Nou
2009
2010
Yale (2008)
Posner (7th Cir. )
(shared with Souter )
2009
2010
Yale (2004)
Katzmann (2d Cir. ) / Cote (S.D.N.Y. )
2010
2011
Stanford (2008)
Kozinski (9th Cir. )
2010
2011
Yale (2006)
J. A. W. Rogers (D.C. Cir. )
2010
2011
Yale (2008)
Calabresi (2d Cir. )
2010
2011
Harvard (2008)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
(shared with Souter )
2010
2011
Harvard (2007)
Reinhardt (9th Cir. )
2011
2012
UCLA (2008)
Calabresi (2d Cir. ) / Marshall (Mass. )
2011
2012
Harvard (2010)
Boudin (1st Cir. )
2011
2012
Stanford (2008)
W. Fletcher (9th Cir. ) / C. Breyer (N.D. Cal. )
2011
2012
NYU (2009)
Posner (7th Cir. )
2012
2013
Harvard (2004)
Katzmann (2d Cir. ) / Garaufis (E.D.N.Y. )
2012
2013
Virginia (2011)
Boudin (1st Cir. )
2012
2013
Yale (2011)
Kozinski (9th Cir. )
2012
2013
Georgetown (2008)
Katzmann (2d Cir. ) / H. Kennedy (D.D.C. )
(shared with Souter )
2012
2013
Yale (2009)
Griffith (D.C. Cir. )
2013
2014
Harvard (2011)
Posner (7th Cir. ) / Feinerman (N.D. Ill. )
2013
2014
Yale (2011)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
2013
2014
NYU (2010)
Sentelle (D.C. Cir. ) / Gleeson (E.D.N.Y. )
2013
2014
Yale (2011)
Scirica (3d Cir. ) / Baylson (E.D. Pa. )
(shared with O'Connor )
2013
2014
Yale (2011)
Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir. )
2014
2015
Yale (2009)
Katzmann (2d Cir. ) / Woodlock (D. Mass. )
2014
2015
Yale (2011)
Kozinski (9th Cir. )
2014
2015
Yale (2010)
Reinhardt (9th Cir. ) / Rakoff (S.D.N.Y. )
2014
2015
Stanford (2013)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
(shared with Souter )
2014
2015
Yale (2012)
Reinhardt (9th Cir. ) / Cote (S.D.N.Y. )
2015
2016
Virginia (2013)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
2015
2016
Columbia (2011)
Wood (7th Cir. )
2015
2016
Georgetown (2013)
Sutton (6th Cir. ) / Bates (D.D.C. )
2015
2016
Yale (2012)
Calabresi (2d Cir. )
2016
2017
Stanford (2013)
P. Higginbotham (5th Cir. ) / C. Breyer (N.D. Cal. )
2016
2017
Yale (2015)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
2016
2017
Yale (2011)
Rakoff (S.D.N.Y. ) / Katzmann (2d Cir. )
2016
2017
Yale (2014)
B. Fletcher (9th Cir. ) / Pillard (D.C. Cir. )
(shared with Souter )
2016
2017
Yale (2013)
Reinhardt (9th Cir. ) / Oetken (S.D.N.Y. ) / Barron (1st Cir. )
2017
2018
Stanford (2015)
Griffith (D.C. Cir. )
2017
2018
Yale (2016)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
David R. Fox
2017
2018
GW (2012)
Barron (1st Cir. )
2017
2018
Yale (2014)
Lohier (2d Cir. ) / Pillard (D.C. Cir. )
2018
2019
Stanford (2013)
D. Motz (4th Cir. )
2018
2019
Harvard (2014)
K.B. Jackson (D.D.C. ) / Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir. )
2018
2019
Harvard (2014)
Garland (D.C. Cir. )
2018
2019
Stanford (2015)
Oetken (S.D.N.Y. ) / Tatel (D.C. Cir. )
2019
2020
Stanford (2016)
C. Breyer (N.D. Cal. ) / Friedland (9th Cir. ) / Cuéllar (Cal. )
2019
2020
Yale (2012)
Rakoff (S.D.N.Y. ) / Katzmann (2d Cir. )
2019
2020
Yale (2016)
Srinivasan (D.C. Cir. )
2019
2020
Yale (2012)
Sack (2d Cir. )
2020
2021
Yale (2015)
Rakoff (S.D.N.Y. ) / Katzmann (2d Cir. )
2020
2021
Yale (2018)
Garland (D.C. Cir. ) / Pillard (D.C. Cir. )
2020
2021
Virginia (2018)
Wilkinson (4th Cir. )
(hired by Ginsburg)
2020
2021
Stanford (2016)
Sutton (6th Cir. ) / Millett (D.C. Cir. )
(hired by Ginsburg)
2020
2021
Yale (2015)
Boasberg (D.D.C. ) / Katzmann (2d Cir. )
2021
Yale (2016)
Pillard (D.C. Cir. ) / Oetken (S.D.N.Y. )
2021
Stanford (2019)
S. Thomas (9th Cir. ) / Chhabria (N.D. Ca. )
2021
Chicago (2018)
McKeown (9th Cir. ) / C. Breyer (N.D. Cal. )
2021
Yale (2017)
Hall (D. Conn. ) / Calabresi (2d Cir. )
Notes [ ]
^ Their place in the order of precedence was based upon the seniority of their commission from President George Washington following their confirmation by the U.S. Senate .
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^ Peppers, Todd C. (2006). Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk . Stanford University Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-8047-5382-2 .
^ "Supreme Court Procedures" . uscourts.gov . Washington, D.C.: Administrative Office of the United States Courts . Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
^ Ward, Artemus; Weiden, David L. (2006). Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court . New York, New York: New York University Press. pp. 1–5. ISBN 978-0-8147-9404-3 .
^ "Landmark Legislation: Judiciary Act of 1789" . Washington, D.C.: Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved December 22, 2018 .
^ a b c d e f g "Justices 1789 to Present" . supremecourt.gov . Washington, D.C.: Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved December 25, 2018 .
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"Finding Aid to the Papers of Harry A. Blackmun," Library of Congress (2003, rev'd April 2010), list of clerks.
"Georgia Law Alumni Who Have Clerked for a U.S. Supreme Court Justice," Advocate , Spring/Summer 2004 (listing 6 names).
Judicial Clerkship Handbook, USC Gould Law School , 2013-2014, p. 33, Appendix B.
Newland, Charles A. (June 1961). "Personal Assistants to the Supreme Court Justices: The Law Clerks," Oregon L. Rev. 40: 306–07.
News of Supreme Court clerks . University of Virginia Law School, list of clerks, 2004-2018.
University of Michigan clerks to the Supreme Court, 1991-2017 , University of Michigan Law School Web site (2016). Retrieved September 20, 2016.
Rauh, Joseph L., Jr. (1979), et al. , "A Personal View of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo: Recollections of Four Cardozo Law Clerks," 1 Cardozo L. Rev. 5.
Ward, Artemus and David L. Weiden (2006). Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court . New York, NY: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0814794203 , ISBN 0814794203 .
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