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

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Rachel Brand, who was United States Associate Attorney General, clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy during the 2002-03 term. Rachel Brand official photo.jpg
Rachel Brand, who was United States Associate Attorney General, clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy during the 2002–03 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 term. 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.

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Table of law clerks

The following is a table of law clerks serving the associate justice holding Supreme Court seat 1 (the Court's first associate justice seat by the order of precedence of the inaugural associate justices [lower-alpha 1] ) 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 Brett Kavanaugh.

 
Seat 1 associate justices and law clerks

Samuel Blatchford

April 3, 1882
July 7, 1893 [5]
ClerkStartedFinishedSchool (year)Previous clerkship

Edward Douglass White

March 12, 1894
December 18, 1910CJ [5]
ClerkStartedFinishedSchool (year)Previous clerkship

Willis Van Devanter

January 3, 1911
June 2, 1937 [5]
ClerkStartedFinishedSchool (year)Previous clerkship
Richard E. Repath 19101911 Devanter (8th Cir.)
Frederick H. Barclay 19111913 Columbian-GW (1901)
Mahlon D. Kiefer 19141922 National (LLB 1907, LLM 1909)
George Howland Chase III 19231924 Harvard (1923)
James W. Yokum 19231925 Georgetown (did not graduate)
J. Arthur Mattson 19241928 Georgetown (1924)
John T. McHale 19261937 Georgetown (c. 1914, did not graduate)

Hugo Black

August 19, 1937
September 17, 1971 [5]
ClerkStartedFinishedSchool (year)Previous clerkship
Jerome A. ("Buddy") Cooper 19371940 Harvard (1936)
Chris J. Dixie 19371938 Texas (1936)
Marx Leva 19401941 Harvard (1940)
Maxwell ("Max") Isenbergh 19411942 Harvard (1938–39)
John Paul Frank 19421943 Wisconsin (LLB 1940) / Yale (SJD 1947)none
Charles F. Luce 19431944 Yale (1942)none
Sidney M. Davis 19441945 Chicago (1943) J. Frank (2d Cir.)
David Haber 19451946 Yale (1944) C.E. Clark (2d Cir.)
Louis F. Oberdorfer 19461947 Yale (1946)none
William Joslin 19471948 Columbia (1947)none
Truman M. Hobbs 19481949 Yale (1948)none
Frank M. Wozencraft 19491950 Yale (1949)none
George M. Treister 19501951 Yale (1949) P. Gibson (Cal.)
Luther L. Hill Jr. 19501951 Harvard (1950)none
Neal P. Rutledge 19511952 Yale (1950) Fahy (D.C. Cir.)
Carroll Samuel ("Sam") Daniels 19511952 Columbia (1951)
Huey Blair Howerton Jr. 19511952 Mississippi (1946)
Charles A. Reich 19531954 Yale (1952)none
David J. Vann 19531954 Alabama (1951)
Daniel J. Meador 19541955 Harvard (1954)
James W. H. ("Bill") Stewart 19541955 Washington and Lee University (LLB 1952) Harvard (LLM 1953)
J. Vernon Patrick 19551956 Harvard (1955)
Harold Anson Ward, III 19551956 Chicago (1955)
George Clemon Freeman Jr. 19561957 Yale (1956)
Robert A. Girard 19561957 Harvard (1956)
David M. Clark 19571959 NYU (1957)
Guido Calabresi 19581959 Yale (1958)none
Robert T. Basseches 19581959 Yale (1958) Bazelon (D.C. Cir)
Nicholas Johnson 19591960 Texas (1956) John R. Brown (5th Cir.)
John K. McNulty 19591960 Yale (1959)none
Lawrence G. Wallace 19601961 Columbia (1959)none
George Lawton Saunders Jr. 19601962 Chicago (1959) Rives (5th Cir.)
Floyd Fulton Feeney 19611962 NYU (1960)none
Arthur Ellsworth Dick ("Dick") Howard 19621964 Virginia (1961)none
Clay C. Long 19621963 Harvard (1962)none
John G. Kester 19631965 Harvard (1963)none
James Little North 19641965 Virginia (1964)none
Drayton Nabers Jr. 19651966 Yale (1965)none
John W. Vardaman 19651966 Harvard (1965)none
Margaret J. Corcoran 19661967 Harvard (1965)
Stephen D. Susman 19661967 Texas (1965) John R. Brown (5th Cir.)
Joseph Hubbard Price19671968 Harvard (1964)none
Stephen J. Schulhofer 19671969 Harvard (1967)none
Walter E. Dellinger, III 19681969 Yale (1966)none
Kenneth C. Bass, III 19691970 Yale (1969)none
James Gustave Speth 19691970 Yale (1969)none
George Marshall Moriarty (hired by Burger, shared with White, Stewart, Burger)19691970 Harvard (1968) Aldrich (1st Cir.)
John M. Harmon 19701971 Duke (1969) G. Bell (5th Cir.)
Robert B. McKaw 19701971 Virginia (1970)
Robert W. ("Bob") Spearman 19701971 Yale (1970)
Lawrence A. ("Larry") Hammond 1971September 17, 1971 Texas (1970) McGowan (D.C. Cir.)
Covert E. Parnell, III 1971September 17, 1971 Harvard (1970) Van Dusen (3d Cir.)

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

January 7, 1972
June 26, 1987 [5]
ClerkStartedFinishedSchool (year)Previous clerkship
Hamilton Philips Fox, III January 7, 1972July 1972 Yale (1970) Coffin (1st Cir.)
Covert E. Parnell, III January 7, 1972July 1972 Harvard (1970) Black
J. Harvie Wilkinson, III January 7, 19721973 Virginia (1972)none
Lawrence A. ("Larry") Hammond January 7, 19721973 Texas (1970) Black / McGowan (D.C. Cir.)
William C. Kelly Jr. 19721973 Yale (1971) Coffin (1st Cir.)
John J. Buckley Jr. 19731974 Chicago (1972) Wisdom (5th Cir.)
John C. Jeffries Jr. 19731974 Virginia (1973)none
Jack B. Owens 19731974 Stanford (1970) Hamley (9th Cir.)
David R. Boyd19741975 Virginia (1973) McGowan (D.C. Cir.)
Julia Penny Clark 19741975 Texas (1973) Craven (4th Cir.)
Joel I. Klein 19741975 Harvard (1971) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Ronald G. Carr 19741975 Chicago (1973) Bazelon (D.C. Cir)
Gregory K. Palm 19751976 Harvard (1974) Friendly (2d Cir.)
Carl R. Schenker Jr. 19751976 Stanford (1974) Hufstedler (9th Cir.)
Christina B. Whitman 19751976 Michigan (1974) Leventhal (D.C. Cir.)
J. Phillip Jordan 19751976 Virginia (1974) Craven (4th Cir.)
Tyler A. Baker, III 19761977 Stanford (1975) Renfrew (N.D. Cal.)
David A. Martin19761977 Yale (1975) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
Charles C. Ames 19761977 Virginia (1975) L. Campbell (1st Cir.)
Eugene Joseph Comey 19761977 Chicago (1975) McGowan (D.C. Cir)
James D. Alt 19771978 Chicago (1976) L. Morgan (5th Cir.)
Nancy J. Bregstein (Gordon) 19771978 Penn (1976) ? (2d Cir.)
Robert D. Comfort 19771978 Harvard (1976) Hunter (3d Cir.)
Samuel Estreicher 19771978 Columbia (1975) Leventhal (D.C. Cir.)
Eric G. Andersen 19781979 BYU (1977) J. C. Wallace (9th Cir.)
J. Bruce Boisture 19781979 Yale (1977) Gurfein (2d Cir.)
Paul B. Stephan, III 19781979 Virginia (1977) L. Campbell (1st Cir.)
David L. Westin 19781979 Michigan (1977) Lumbard (2d Cir.)
Jonathan B. Sallet 19791980 Virginia (1978) Tamm (D.C. Cir.)
David O. Stewart 19791980 Yale (1978) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.) / Bazelon (D.C. Cir.)
Gregory Evers May 19791980 Harvard (1978) Butzner (4th Cir.)
Mary Ellen ("Ellen") Richey 19791980 Stanford (1978) Renfrew (N.D. Cal.)
J. Peter Byrne 19801981 Virginia (1979) Coffin (1st Cir.)
Paul W. Cane Jr. 19801981 Berkeley (1979) McGowan (D.C. Cir.)
R. Gregory Morgan 19801981 Michigan (1979) Lumbard (2d Cir.)
Paul M. Smith 19801981 Yale (1979) Oakes (2d Cir.)
Mary E. Becker 19811982 Chicago (1980) Mikva (D.C. Cir.)
Richard H. Fallon Jr. 19811982 Yale (1980) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.)
David F. Levi 19811982 Stanford (1980) Duniway (9th Cir.)
John Shepard Wiley Jr. 19811982 Berkeley (1980) Coffin (1st Cir.)
James O. Browning 19821983 Virginia (1981) Seitz (3d Cir.)
D. Rives Kistler 19821983 Georgetown (1981) C. Clark (5th Cir.)
Mark E. Newell 19821983 Harvard (1981) Wilkey (D.C. Cir.)
Michael F. Sturley 19821983 Yale (1981) Kearse (2d Cir.)
David A. Charny 19831984 Harvard (1982) Wilkey (D.C. Cir.)
Robert M. Couch 19831984 Washington & Lee (1982) Wisdom (5th Cir.)
Joseph E. Neuhaus 19831984 Columbia (1982) McGowan (D.C. Cir.)
Cammie R. Robinson (Hauptfuhrer) 19831984 Virginia (1982) Seitz (3d Cir.)
A. Lee Bentley, III 19841985 Virginia (1983) Haynsworth (4th Cir.)
Annmarie Levins 19841985 Maine (1983) Oakes (2d Cir.)
Daniel R. Ortiz 19841985 Yale (1983) S. Breyer (1st Cir.)
Lynda Guild Simpson 19841985 Chicago (1982) Kearse (2d Cir.)
Rory Knox Little (shared with Brennan, Stewart, Stevens)19841985 Yale (1982) Oberdorfer (D.D.C.)
C. Cabell Chinnis Jr. 19851986 Yale (1984) Wisdom (5th Cir.)
Anne M. Coughlin 19851986 NYU (1984) Newman (2d Cir.)
Michael W. Mosman 19851986 BYU (1984) Wilkey (D.C. Cir.)
William J. Stuntz 19851986 Virginia (1984) L. Pollak (E.D. Pa.)
Robert Allen Long Jr. 19861987 Yale (1985) Wisdom (5th Cir.)
Leslie S. Gielow (Jacobs) 19861987 Michigan (1985) Oberdorfer (D.D.C.)
Andrew D. Leipold 19861987 Virginia (1985) Mikva (D.C. Cir.)
Ronald J. Mann 19861987 Texas (1985) Sneed (9th Cir.)
Robert W. Werner (shared with Kennedy)19871988 NYU (1986) Weinfeld (S.D.N.Y.)
R. Hewitt Pate, III 19881989 Virginia (1987) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Michael N. Levy 19891990 Harvard (1988) Oberdorfer (D.D.C.)
George C. Freeman, III 19901991 Yale (1989) R. Arnold (8th Cir.)
Jeffrey S. Sutton (shared with Scalia)19911992 Ohio State (1990) Meskill (2d Cir.)
Rebecca A. Womeldorf (shared with Kennedy)19921993 Washington & Lee (1991) Merhige (E.D. Va.)
Deanne E. Maynard (shared with Stevens)19931994 Harvard (1991) S. Harris (D.D.C.)
James J. Benjamin (shared with Stevens)19941995 Virginia (1990) J. F. Motz (D. Md.)
Mark David Harris (shared with Stevens)19951996 Harvard (1992) Flaum (7th Cir.)

Anthony Kennedy

February 18, 1988
July 31, 2018 [5]
ClerkStartedFinishedSchool (year)Previous clerkship
Daniel C. Chung February 18, 1988July 1988 Harvard (1987) Kennedy (9th Cir.)
Miguel A. Estrada February 18, 1988July 1988 Harvard (1986) Kearse (2d Cir.)
Peter D. Keisler February 18, 1988July 1988 Yale (1985) Bork (D.C. Cir.)
E. Lawrence Vincent February 18, 1988July 1988 Texas (1987) Kennedy (9th Cir.)
Robert W. Werner (shared with Powell)February 18, 1988July 1988 NYU (1986) Weinfeld (S.D.N.Y.)
Elizabeth D. Collery (Moss) (served first half only, replaced by Litman)19881989 Harvard (1986) D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.)
Miguel A. Estrada (served first half only, replaced by Cordray)19881989 Harvard (1986) Kennedy / Kearse (2d Cir.)
Thomas G. Hungar19881989 Yale (1987) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Peter D. Keisler (served first half only, replaced by Cappuccio)19881989 Yale (1985) Kennedy / Bork (D.C. Cir.)
Paul T. Cappuccio (served second half only)19881989 Harvard (1986) Scalia / Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Richard A. Cordray (served second half only)19881989 Chicago (1986) B. White / Bork (D.C. Cir.)
Harry P. Litman (served second half only)19881989 Berkeley (1986) T. Marshall / Mikva (D.C. Cir.)
Jeanne M. Hauch 19891990 Yale (1988) R. Winter (2d Cir.)
Gregory E. Maggs 19891990 Harvard (1988) Sneed (9th Cir.)
Michael Thomas Mollerus 19891990 Harvard (1988) J.E. Smith (5th Cir.)
R. Hewitt Pate, III 19891990 Virginia (1987) Powell / Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
J. Randy Beck 19901991 SMU (1988) P. Higginbotham (5th Cir.)
Jack L. Goldsmith 19901991 Yale (1989) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
David G. Litt 19901991 Chicago (1988) Goodwin (9th Cir.)
K. John Shaffer 19901991 Berkeley (1989) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
David L. Anderson 19911992 Stanford (1990) J. C. Wallace (9th Cir.)
Ashutosh Bhagwat 19911992 Chicago (1990) Posner (7th Cir.)
Michael C. Dorf 19911992 Harvard (1990) Reinhardt (9th Cir.)
Jacqueline G. Cooper 19911992 Chicago (1990) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
John E. Barry (shared with Burger)19911992 Columbia (1985) L. Campbell (1st Cir.)
Bradford A. Berenson 19921993 Harvard (1991) Silberman (D.C. Cir.)
Adam H. Charnes 19921993 Harvard (1991) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Matthew H. Lembke 19921993 Virginia (1991) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Christopher R. J. Pace 19921993 Penn (1990) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Rebecca A. Womeldorf (shared with Powell)19921993 Washington & Lee (1991) Merhige (E.D. Va.)
Miles F. Ehrlich 19931994 Stanford (1992) W. Norris (9th Cir.)
Gary Feinerman 19931994 Stanford (1991) Flaum (7th Cir.)
Nathan A. Forrester 19931994 Chicago (1992) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Brett Kavanaugh 19931994 Yale (1990) Kozinski (9th Cir.) / Stapleton (3d Cir.)
Neil M. Gorsuch (shared with White)19931994 Harvard (1991) Sentelle (D.C. Cir.)
Susan M. Davies 19941995 Chicago (1991) S. Breyer (1st Cir.)
Michael J. Hirshland 19941995 Virginia (1993) Luttig (4th Cir.)
Cheryl A. Krause (Zemelman) 19941995 Stanford (1993) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Daniel Meron 19941995 Harvard (1992) Silberman (D.C. Cir.)
Nancy L. Combs 19951996 Berkeley (1994) O'Scannlain (9th Cir.)
Ward Farnsworth 19951996 Chicago (1994) Posner (7th Cir.)
Stephen B. Kinnaird 19951996 Yale (1994) J. M. Walker (2d Cir.)
Kelly M. Klaus 19951996 Stanford (1992) Rymer (9th Cir.) / Orrick (N.D. Cal.)
John P. Elwood 19961997 Yale (1993) Mahoney (2d Cir.)
F. Allen Ferrell 19961997 Harvard (1995) Silberman (D.C. Cir.)
Renee Lettow (Lerner) 19961997 Yale (1995) S. Williams (D.C. Cir.)
Anthony J. Vlatas 19961997 Columbia (1994) Kozinski (9th Cir.) / Leisure (S.D.N.Y.)
Stephanos Bibas 19971998 Yale (1994) P. Higginbotham (5th Cir.)
Raymond Kethledge 19971998 Michigan (1993) Guy (6th Cir.)
Harry P. Susman 19971998 Texas (1996) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Christopher S. Yoo 19971998 Northwestern (1995) Randolph (D.C. Cir.)
Lisa Grow Sun 19981999 Harvard (1997) Luttig (4th Cir.)
Howard C. Nielson Jr. 19981999 Chicago (1997) Luttig (4th Cir.)
Edward S. Pallesen 19981999 Harvard (1997) Leval (2d Cir.)
John Christopher Rozendaal 19981999 Texas (1997) D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.)
James F. Bennett19992000 Vanderbilt (1995) Edmondson (11th Cir.)
William A. Burck 19992000 Yale (1998) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Stephen M. Nickelsburg 19992000 Virginia (1998) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Michael Y. Scudder 19992000 Northwestern (1998) Niemeyer (4th Cir.)
Grant M. Dixton 20002001 Harvard (1999) Luttig (4th Cir.)
Brett C. Gerry 20002001 Yale (1999) Silberman (D.C. Cir.)
Kevin J. Miller20002001 Chicago (1999) J.E. Smith (5th Cir.)
Eugene M. Paige20002001 Harvard (1998) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Steven Engel 20012002 Yale (2000) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
John C. Neiman20012002 Harvard (2000) Niemeyer (4th Cir.)
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz 20012002 Yale (1999) Easterbrook (7th Cir.)
Alexander J. Willscher20012002 Chicago (2000) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Rachel L. Brand 20022003 Harvard (1998) Fried (Mass.)
Brian R. Matsui20022003 Stanford (1999) Rymer (9th Cir.) / Levi (E.D. Cal.)
Igor V. Timofeyev20022003 Yale (2001) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Michael F. Williams20022003 Georgetown (2001) D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.)
Bertrand-Marc ("Marc") Allen20032004 Yale (2002) Luttig (4th Cir.)
Edward C. Dawson20032004 Texas (2002) Carnes (11th Cir.)
Orin Kerr 20032004 Harvard (1997) Garth (3d Cir.)
Chi T. Kwok 20032004 Yale (2002) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Andrew C. Baak20042005 Chicago (2003) Posner (7th Cir.)
Kathryn Rose Haun 20042005 Stanford (2000) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Michael E. Scoville20042005 Harvard (2003) Luttig (4th Cir.)
Matthew C. Stephenson 20042005 Harvard (2003) Williams (D.C. Cir.)
David M. Cooper20052006 Stanford (2004) Garland (D.C. Cir.)
Randy J. Kozel20052006 Harvard (2004) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski20052006 Harvard (2004) Roberts (D.C. Cir.)
Zachary S. Price20052006 Harvard (2003) Tatel (D.C. Cir.) / Blake (D. Md.)
David W. Foster20062007 Harvard (2005) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Lisa Marshall (Manheim) 20062007 Yale (2005) Leval (2d Cir.)
Eric E. Murphy 20062007 Chicago (2005) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Mark R. Yohalem 20062007 Harvard (2005) Rymer (9th Cir.)
Michael Chu20072008 Harvard (2006) D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.)
Stephen J. Cowen20072008 Chicago (2006) D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.)
Andrianna ("Annie") Kastanek 20072008 Northwestern (2005) Ripple (7th Cir.)
C.J. Mahoney 20072008 Yale (2006) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Heidi Bond (shared with O'Connor)20072008 Michigan (2006) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Ashley C. Keller20082009 Chicago (2007) Posner (7th Cir.)
Travis D. Lenkner (Delaney)20082009 Kansas (2005) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.)
Steven M. Shepard 20082009 Yale (2007) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Christopher J. Walker20082009 Stanford (2006) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Daniel Epps 20092010 Harvard (2008) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Allon Shmuel Itzhak Kedem 20092010 Yale (2005) Leval (2d Cir.) / Kravitz (D. Conn.)
Scott A. Keller 20092010 Texas (2007) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Misha Tseytlin 20092010 Georgetown (2006) Kozinski (9th Cir.) / J. Brown (D.C. Cir.)
Joshua A. Deahl (shared with O'Connor)20092010 Michigan (2006) Benavides (5th Cir.)
Steven J. Horowitz 20102011 Harvard (2009) Posner (7th Cir.)
Robert E. Johnson20102011 Harvard (2009) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Richard M. Re 20102011 Yale (2008) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.)
James Y. Stern 20102011 Virginia (2009) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Samuel T. C. ("Sam") Erman (shared with Stevens)20102011 Michigan (2007) Garland (D.C. Cir.)
Ishan K. Bhabha 20112012 Harvard (2009) Garland (D.C. Cir.)
Leah M. Litman 20112012 Michigan (2010) Sutton (6th Cir.)
Eric S. Nguyen 20112012 Harvard (2009) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Justin R. Walker 20112012 Harvard (2009) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.)
Dina B. Mishra (shared with Stevens)20112012 Yale (2009) Boudin (1st Cir.)
David W. Denton Jr. 20122013 Harvard (2011) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Joshua ("Josh") Patashnik 20122013 Stanford (2011) Sutton (6th Cir.)
Mark David Taticchi 20122013 GW (2010) Ikuta (9th Cir.)
Lauren S. Willard 20122013 Virginia (2011) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Gregory Jacob Dubinsky 20132014 Yale (2011) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.) / Feinerman (N.D. Ill.)
Matthew X. Etchemendy 20132014 Stanford (2012) Garland (D.C. Cir.)
Katherine Moran Meeks 20132014 Penn (2012) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Michael F. Murray 20132014 Yale (2009) O'Scannlain (9th Cir.)
Aaron Zelinsky (shared with Stevens)20132014 Yale (2010) Griffith (D.C. Cir.)
Andrew J.M. Bentz 20142015 Virginia (2012) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
James W. Crooks 20142015 Columbia (2013) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Joshua Matz 20142015 Harvard (2012) Reinhardt (9th Cir.) / Oetken (S.D.N.Y.)
Caroline S. Van Zile 20142015 Yale (2012) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.) / Boasberg (D.D.C.)
Travis Crum (shared with Stevens)20142015 Yale (2011) Tatel (D.C. Cir.) / Thompson (M.D. Ala.)
Elana Nightingale Dawson 20152016 Northwestern (2011) Kethledge (6th Cir.) / Feinerman (N.D. Ill.)
Samir Deger-sen 20152016 Yale (2013) Susan Oki Mollway (D. Haw.) / Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Andrew Gareth Irving Kilberg 20152016 Virginia (2014) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
C. Harker Rhodes, IV 20152016 Stanford (2012) Katzmann (2d Cir.) / Zobel (D. Mass.)
Gillian S. Grossman (shared with Stevens)20152016 Harvard (2014) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.)
Alex Jordan Harris 20162017 Harvard (2015) Gorsuch (10th Cir.)
William C. Purdue 20162017 Yale (2011) Katzmann (2d Cir.) / Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.)
John J. Snidow 20162017 Yale (2014) Kethledge (6th Cir.) / Thapar (E.D.K.Y.)
Thomas Gregory Sprankling 20162017 Columbia (2012) Kozinski (9th Cir.)
Teresa A. Reed (Dippo) (shared with Stevens)20162017 Stanford (2015) Millett (D.C. Cir.)
Nicholas ("Nick") Harper (hired by Scalia)20172018 Chicago (2015) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.)
Geoffrey C. Shaw 20172018 Yale (2016) Reinhardt (9th Cir.)
Matthew Steven Gregory 20172018 Michigan (2014) Kethledge (6th Cir.)
Krista J. Perry 20172018 Chicago (2016) W. Pryor (11th Cir.)
Donald L.R. Goodson (shared with Stevens)20172018 NYU (2013) Katzmann (2d Cir.) / Nathan (S.D.N.Y.)
Alexander Kazam (shared with Gorsuch)20182018 Yale (2016) Kethledge (6th Cir.) / Sullivan (S.D.N.Y.)
Samuel Conrad Scott (shared with Ginsburg)20182018 Yale (2015) Watford (9th Cir.) / Garaufis (E.D.N.Y.)
Aimee W. Brown (shared with Alito)20182019 Chicago (2014) Griffith (D.C. Cir.)
Clayton Kozinski (shared with Gorsuch)20192020 Yale (2017) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.)
Ben Wallace (shared with Kavanaugh)20202021 Yale (2016) Kethledge (6th Cir.) / Srinivasan (D.C. Cir.)
Elizabeth Nielson (shared with Barrett)20212022 Chicago (2019) Lee (Utah) / Sutton (6th Cir.)
James Durling (shared with Kavanaugh)20222023 Yale (2018) Kethledge (6th Cir.) / Thapar (6th Cir.)
A.J. Jeffries2023 Stanford (2020) Bush (6th Cir.) / J.R. Walker (D.C. Cir.)

Brett Kavanaugh

October 6, 2018
ClerkStartedFinishedSchool (year)Previous clerkship
Shannon M. Grammel October 6, 20182019 Stanford (2017) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Kimberly J. Jackson October 6, 20182019 Yale (2017) Friedrich (D.D.C.) / Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.)
Megan Marie Lacy October 6, 20182019 Virginia (2010) Fitzwater (N.D. Tex.) / O'Scannlain (9th Cir.)
Sara Shaw Nommensen October 6, 20182019 Harvard (2016) Sullivan (S.D.N.Y.) / Silberman (D.C. Cir.)
Audrey A. Beck 20192020 Notre Dame (2017) Larsen (6th Cir.) / Sutton (6th Cir.)
Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld 20192020 Yale (2018) Grant (11th Cir.)
Trenton J. Van Oss 20192020 Harvard (2017) Grant (11th Cir.)
James Y. Xi 20192020 Stanford (2017) Sutton (6th Cir.)
Megan McGlynn 20202021 Yale (2017) W. Pryor (11th Cir.) / Friedrich (D.D.C.)
Zoe A. Jacoby 20202021 Yale (2019) Barrett (7th Cir.)
Tyler Kathryn Infinger 20202021 NYU (2016) Rao (D.C. Cir.)
Harry S. Graver 20202021 Harvard (2019) Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Ben Wallace (shared with Kennedy)20202021 Yale (2016) Kethledge (6th Cir.) / Srinivasan (D.C. Cir.)
Alexa R. Baltes 20212022 Notre Dame (2017) Gruender (8th Cir.) / Barrett (7th Cir.)
Athanasia O. ("Athie") Livas 20212022 Yale (2019) Thapar (6th Cir.) / Friedrich (D.D.C.)
Jenna H. Pavelec 20212022 Yale (2017) Kethledge (6th Cir.) / Thapar (6th Cir.)
Sarah E. Welch 20212022 Chicago (2019) Sutton (6th Cir.) / W. Pryor (11th Cir.)
Emily M. Hall 20222023 Yale (2021) Thapar (6th Cir.)
Isabel Marin 20222023 Harvard (2020) Collins (9th Cir.) / Millett (D.C. Cir.)
Cameron J. E. Pritchett 20222023 Harvard (2018) Edwards (D.C. Cir.) / Gallagher (D. Md.)
David S. W. Steinbach 20222023 Stanford (2019) Srinivasan (D.C. Cir.) / Boasberg (D.D.C.)
Claire Rossell Cahill 2023 Georgetown (2019) Ambro (3d Cir.) / Grant (11th Cir.) / McFadden (D.D.C.)
Thomas E. Hopson2023 Yale (2020) Katsas (D.C. Cir.) / Friedrich (D.D.C.)
Nicholaus C. Mills 2023 Cornell (2019) Kovner (E.D.N.Y.) / Willett (5th Cir.)
Avery C. Rasmussen 2023 Virginia (2021) Friedrich (D.D.C.) / Wilkinson (4th Cir.)
Zachary J. Lustbader 2024 Yale (2021) Park (2d Cir.) / Friedrich (D.D.C.)
Erin Brown2024 Virginia (2021) Grant (11th Cir.) / Nichols (D.D.C.)
Seanhenry VanDyke 2024 Harvard (2021) Oldham (5th Cir.) / Katsas (D.C. Cir.)
Pat Reidy2024 Yale (2021) Hardiman (3d Cir.)
Catherine Cole2025 Harvard (2022) Pryor (11th Cir.) / Friedrich (D.D.C.)

Notes

  1. 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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The lists of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States cover the law clerks who have assisted the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882. The list is divided into separate lists for each position in the Supreme Court.

Martin Edward Whelan III is an American lawyer, legal activist and political commentator. Whelan's legal career included clerking for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and serving as a deputy assistant attorney general during the George W. Bush administration. From 2004 to 2021, he served as the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank "dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy".

Stanley M. Silverberg was an American lawyer. He worked in the United States Department of Justice under Philip Perlman in the 1940s, before joining the law firm of Samuel Irving Rosenman.

Clarence Melville York was an American attorney who, in the 1890s, was one of the first law clerks to the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Candace Kovacic-Fleischer is an American legal scholar who is a professor emerita at American University Washington College of Law. She has taught there since 1981.

Celestine Richards McConville is an American attorney who is a law professor at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law of Chapman University in Orange, California. Her research interests include constitutional and death penalty law.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janet Meik Wright</span> American legal scholar (born 1946)

Janet Leigh Meik Wright is an American legal scholar who has taught community property, estate planning and non-profit institutions at the University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of California, Davis.

Julia Penny Clark is an American attorney who has argued employee benefits law cases before the United States Supreme Court.

Rebecca Latham Brown is an American law professor who is The Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law specializing in Constitutional law at USC Gould School of Law.

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