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A law clerk or a judicial clerk is a person,generally someone who provides direct counsel and assistance to a lawyer or judge by researching issues and drafting legal opinions for cases before the court. Judicial clerks often play significant roles in the formation of case law through their influence upon judges' decisions and perform some quasi-secretarial duties. Judicial clerks should not be confused with legal clerks/paralegals,court clerks,or courtroom deputies who perform other duties within the legal profession and perform more quasi-secretarial duties than law clerks,or legal secretaries that only provide secretarial and administrative support duties to attorneys and/or judges.
Sandra Jeanne Feuerstein was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Beth S. Brinkmann is an American lawyer who served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice,heading up the appellate staff in the DOJ's Civil Division during the administration of President Barack Obama. She also served as Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States from 1993 through 2001. Brinkmann has argued 25 cases before the United States Supreme Court both in that role and in her later role as a partner in the Washington,D.C. office of the firm Morrison &Foerster. Currently,Brinkmann is a partner at the Covington &Burling law firm in Washington,D.C.
Carolyn Barbara Kuhl is a judge on the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles and a former nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. After receiving her law degree in 1977 from Duke Law School,she clerked for future Supreme Court Justice,Anthony M. Kennedy,from 1977 to 1978. From 1981 to 1986,she served in the United States Department of Justice. She worked as a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Munger,Tolles &Olson,focusing on civil business litigation with a specialty in appellate litigation,from 1986 to 1995. She became a judge on the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles in 1995 and was nominated to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on June 22,2001 by President George W. Bush.
Luis A. Gonzalez is an American attorney who served as Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department in New York from 2009–2015.
Leland George DeGrasse was a judge in New York,New York,who served for seven years as an associate justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
James M. Catterson is a former Associate Justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
Rolando Acosta is the presiding justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
Sallie Manzanet-Daniels is an associate justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
David Friedman is an associate justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
Peter Tom is an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department from 1994 to 2019.
Helen Freedman is a former judge who served in the New York State court system for 36 years. From 2008 to 2014,she served as an associate justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
Karla Moskowitz is a retired Associate Justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
Dianne Renwick is an associate justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
David B. Saxe was an associate justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
John W. Sweeny,Jr. is retired Associate Justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
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Mary Catherine Cuff is a former acting justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court who served between 2012 and 2016.
Edwin H. Stern is a lawyer and judge who served as acting justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court.