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The following table lists the terms of all law clerks to Supreme Court justices

  • The names of Justices who are active ( As Of Justice Samuel Alito's inauguration on January 31 , 2006 ) are in bold.



CHIEF JUSTICE

  Name Byron White
  Started 1946
  Ended 1947
  School-yr Yale ( 1946 )
  Prev-clerk none


  Justice Earl Warren
  Begin October 5 , 1953
  End June 23 , 1969


  Name Jon O Newman
  Started 1957
  Ended 1958
  School-yr Yale ( 1956 )
  Prev-clerk Washington


  Name John Hart Ely
  Started 1964
  Ended 1965
  School-yr Yale ( 1963 )
  Prev-clerk none


  Name C Boyden Gray
  Started 1968
  Ended 1969
  School-yr UNC ( 1968 )
  Prev-clerk none




  Justice Warren E Burger
  Begin June 23 , 1969
  End September 26 , 1986


  Name Lee Bollinger
  Started 1972
  Ended 1973
  School-yr Columbia ( 1971 )
  Prev-clerk Feinberg


  Name Kenneth Starr
  Started 1975
  Ended 1977
  School-yr Duke ( 1973 )
  Prev-clerk Dyer


  Name Alex Kozinski
  Started 1976
  Ended 1977
  School-yr UCLA ( 1975 )
  Prev-clerk Kennedy


  Name J Michael Luttig
  Started 1983
  Ended 1984
  School-yr UVA ( 1981 )
  Prev-clerk Scalia


  Name Timothy Flanigan
  Started 1985
  Ended 1986
  School-yr UVA ( 1981 )
  Prev-clerk




  Justice William Rehnquist
  Begin September 26 , 1986
  End September 3 , 2005


  Name Steven M Colloton
  Started 1989
  Ended 1990
  School-yr Yale ( 1988 )
  Prev-clerk Silberman


  Name Mark W Mosier
  Started 2005
  Ended 2005
  School-yr Chicago ( 2004 )
  Prev-clerk Tacha


  Name Ann E O'Connell
  Started 2005
  Ended 2005
  School-yr GW ( 2004 )
  Prev-clerk Magill


  Name Michael S Passaportis
  Started 2005
  Ended 2005
  School-yr UVA ( 2004 )
  Prev-clerk Wilkinson




  Justice ''' John Roberts '''
  Begin 2005
  End present


  Name Kosta Stojilkovic
  Started 2005
  Ended
  School-yr UVA ( 2004 )
  Prev-clerk Roberts


  Name Dan Kearney
  Started 2005
  Ended
  School-yr Yale ( 2004 )
  Prev-clerk Roberts


  Name Mark W Mosier
  Started 2005
  Ended
  School-yr Chicago ( 2004 )
  Prev-clerk Rehnquist


  Name Ann E O'Connell
  Started 2005
  Ended
  School-yr GW ( 2004 )
  Prev-clerk Rehnquist


  Name Michael S Passaportis
  Started 2005
  Ended
  School-yr UVA ( 2004 )
  Prev-clerk Rehnquist


  Name Felicia H Ellsworth
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Chicago ( 2005 )


  Name George W Hicks
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Harvard ( 2005 )






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  Name John Paul Stevens
  Started 1947
  Ended 1948
  School-yr Northwestern ( 1947 )
  Prev-clerk none




  Justice Sherman Minton
  Begin October 12 , 1949
  End October 15 , 1956


  Name Abner J Mikva
  Started 1951
  Ended 1952
  School-yr Chicago ( 1951 )
  Prev-clerk none




  Justice William Brennan
  Begin October 16 , 1956
  End July 20 , 1990


  Name Richard Posner
  Started 1962
  Ended 1963
  School-yr Harvard ( 1962 )
  Prev-clerk none


  Name Raymond C Fisher
  Started 1967
  Ended 1968
  School-yr Stanford ( 1966 )
  Prev-clerk Wright


  Name Marsha L Berzon
  Started 1974
  Ended 1975
  School-yr Berkeley ( 1973 )
  Prev-clerk Browning


  Name William A Fletcher
  Started 1976
  Ended 1977
  School-yr Yale ( 1975 )
  Prev-clerk Weigel


  Name Merrick B Garland
  Started 1978
  Ended 1979
  School-yr Harvard ( 1977 )
  Prev-clerk Friendly


  Name Michael Chertoff
  Started 1979
  Ended 1980
  School-yr Harvard ( 1978 )
  Prev-clerk Gurfein


  Name Michael McConnell
  Started 1980
  Ended 1981
  School-yr Chicago ( 1979 )
  Prev-clerk Wright




  Justice ''' David Souter '''
  Begin October 9 , 1990
  End present


  Name Noah Feldman
  Started 1998
  Ended 1999
  School-yr Yale ( 1997 )
  Prev-clerk Edwards


  Name Boris Bershteyn
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Yale ( 2004 )
  Prev-clerk Cabranes


  Name David Han
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Harvard ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Boudin


  Name Bryan Leach
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Yale ( 2004 )
  Prev-clerk Cabranes


  Name Daniel Tenny
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Michigan ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Tatel






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  Name Alexander Bickel
  Started 1952
  Ended 1953
  School-yr Harvard ( 1952 )
  Prev-clerk none




  Justice Arthur J Goldberg
  Begin October 1 , 1962
  End July 25 , 1965


  Name Alan Dershowitz
  Started 1963
  Ended 1964
  School-yr Yale ( 1962 )
  Prev-clerk Bazelon


  Name Stephen G Breyer
  Started 1964
  Ended 1965
  School-yr Harvard ( 1964 )
  Prev-clerk none




  "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Abe_Fortas" class="copylinks">Fortas
  "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/October_4" class="copylinks">October 4 , 1965 &ndash May 14 , 1969
  Justice Harry Blackmun
  Begin June 9 , 1970
  End August 3 , 1994


  Name Karen Nelson Moore
  Started 1974
  Ended 1975
  School-yr Harvard ( 1973 )
  Prev-clerk Wilkey


  Name Diane Pamela Wood
  Started 1976
  Ended 1977
  School-yr UT-Austin ( 1975 )
  Prev-clerk Goldberg


  Name Harold Hongju Koh
  Started 1981
  Ended 1982
  School-yr Harvard ( 1980 )
  Prev-clerk Wilkey




  Justice ''' Stephen Breyer '''
  Begin August 3 , 1994
  End present


  Name Jennifer Martinez
  Started 1998
  Ended 1999
  School-yr Harvard ( 1997 )
  Prev-clerk Calabresi


  Name Stephen Shackleford
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Harvard ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Boudin


  Name Thiru Vignarajah
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Harvard ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Calabresi


  Name Tacy Flint
  Started 2006
  Ended


  Name Jaren Casazza
  Started 2006
  Ended






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  Name Henry Friendly
  Started 1927
  Ended 1928
  School-yr Harvard ( 1927 )
  Prev-clerk none




  "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/William_O_Douglas" class="copylinks">Douglas
  "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/April_17" class="copylinks">April 17 , 1939 &ndash November 12 , 1975
  Justice ''' John Paul Stevens '''
  Begin December 19 , 1975
  End present


  Name Susan Estrich
  Started 1978
  Ended 1979
  School-yr Harvard ( 1977 )
  Prev-clerk Wright


  Name Jeffrey S Lehman
  Started 1981
  Ended 1982
  School-yr Michigan ( 1980 )
  Prev-clerk Coffin


  Name Eduardo Penalver
  Started 2000
  Ended 2001
  School-yr Yale ()
  Prev-clerk Calabresi


  Name Andrew M Siegel
  Started 2000
  Ended 2001
  School-yr NYU ()
  Prev-clerk Leval


  Name Anne M Voigts
  Started 2000
  Ended 2001
  School-yr Columbia ()
  Prev-clerk Reinhardt


  Name Kathleen R Hartnett
  Started 2001
  Ended 2002
  School-yr Harvard ()
  Prev-clerk Garland


  Name Alison J Nathan
  Started 2001
  Ended 2002
  School-yr Cornell ()
  Prev-clerk Fletcher


  Name Edward N Siskel
  Started 2001
  Ended 2002
  School-yr Chicago ()
  Prev-clerk Nelson


  Name Troy A McKenzie
  Started 2002
  Ended 2003
  School-yr NYU ()
  Prev-clerk Leval


  Name Eric R Olson
  Started 2002
  Ended 2003
  School-yr Michigan ()
  Prev-clerk Edwards


  Name Kathryn A Watts
  Started 2002
  Ended 2003
  School-yr Northwestern ()
  Prev-clerk Randolph


  Name Amy J Wildermuth
  Started 2002
  Ended 2003
  School-yr University Of Illinois ()
  Prev-clerk Calabresi


  Name Leondra R Kruger
  Started 2003
  Ended 2004
  School-yr Yale ()
  Prev-clerk Tatel


  Name Amanda C Leiter
  Started 2003
  Ended 2004
  School-yr Harvard ()
  Prev-clerk Tatel


  Name Margaret H Lemos
  Started 2003
  Ended 2004
  School-yr NYU ()
  Prev-clerk Lipez


  Name Benjamin C Mizer
  Started 2003
  Ended 2004
  School-yr Michigan ()
  Prev-clerk J Rogers


  Name Melissa B Arbus
  Started 2004
  Ended 2005
  School-yr UVA ()
  Prev-clerk D Motz


  Name Roberto J Gonzalez
  Started 2004
  Ended 2005
  School-yr Stanford ()
  Prev-clerk Calabresi


  Name Michael J Gottlieb
  Started 2004
  Ended 2005
  School-yr Harvard ()
  Prev-clerk Reinhardt


  Name Daniel J Powell
  Started 2004
  Ended 2005
  School-yr Chicago ()
  Prev-clerk W Fletcher


  Name Nick Bagley
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr NYU ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Tatel


  Name Chad Golder
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Yale ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Garland


  Name Jamal Greene
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Yale ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Calabresi


  Name Lauren Sudeall
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Harvard ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Reinhardt






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  Name Guido Calabresi
  Started 1958
  Ended 1959
  School-yr Yale ( 1958 )
  Prev-clerk none


  Name Walter E Dellinger, III
  Started 1968
  Ended 1969
  School-yr Yale ( 1968 )
  Prev-clerk none




  Justice Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr
  Begin January 7 , 1972
  End June 26 , 1987


  Name J Harvie Wilkinson, III
  Started 1972
  Ended 1973
  School-yr UVA ( 1972 )
  Prev-clerk none




  Justice ''' Anthony Kennedy '''
  Begin February 18 , 1988
  End present


  Name Peter D Keisler
  Started 1986
  Ended 1987
  School-yr Yale ( 1985 )
  Prev-clerk Bork


  Name Miguel Estrada
  Started 1989
  Ended 1990
  School-yr Harvard ( 1986 )
  Prev-clerk Kearse


  Name Brett Kavanaugh
  Started 1993
  Ended 1994
  School-yr Yale ( 1990 )


  Name David Foster
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Harvard ( 2005 )


  Name Lisa Marshall
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Yale ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Leval


  Name Eric Murphy
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Chicago ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Wilkinson


  Name Mark Yohalem
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Harvard ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Rymer






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  Name William C Canby, Jr
  Started 1958
  Ended 1959
  School-yr Minnesota ( 1956 )
  Prev-clerk none




  Justice Byron White
  Begin April 16 , 1962
  End June 28 , 1993


  Name Rex E Lee
  Started 1963
  Ended 1964
  School-yr Chicago ( 1963 )
  Prev-clerk none


  Name David M Ebel
  Started 1965
  Ended 1966
  School-yr Michigan ( 1965 )
  Prev-clerk none


  Name James B Loken
  Started 1966
  Ended 1967
  School-yr Harvard ( 1965 )
  Prev-clerk Lumbard


  Name Rhesa H Barksdale
  Started 1972
  Ended 1973
  School-yr Mississippi ( 1972 )
  Prev-clerk none




  Justice ''' Ruth Bader Ginsburg '''
  Begin August 10 , 1993
  End present


  Name Eric O Bravin
  Started 2000
  Ended 2001
  School-yr Columbia ()
  Prev-clerk Ebel


  Name Robert M Gordon
  Started 2000
  Ended 2001
  School-yr Yale ()
  Prev-clerk Leval


  Name Goodwin H Liu
  Started 2000
  Ended 2001
  School-yr Yale ()
  Prev-clerk Tatel


  Name Linda C Lye
  Started 2000
  Ended 2001
  School-yr Berkeley ()
  Prev-clerk Calabresi


  Name Heather Elliott
  Started 2001
  Ended 2002
  School-yr Berkeley ()
  Prev-clerk Garland


  Name David A O'Neil
  Started 2001
  Ended 2002
  School-yr Harvard ()
  Prev-clerk Sack


  Name Joseph Palmore
  Started 2001
  Ended 2002
  School-yr UVA ()
  Prev-clerk Gleeson (EDNY)


  Name Aaron J Saiger
  Started 2001
  Ended 2002
  School-yr Columbia ()
  Prev-clerk D Ginsburg


  Name Toby J Heytens
  Started 2002
  Ended 2003
  School-yr UVA ()
  Prev-clerk Becker


  Name Trevor W Morrison
  Started 2002
  Ended 2003
  School-yr Columbia ()
  Prev-clerk B Fletcher


  Name Elizabeth G Porter
  Started 2002
  Ended 2003
  School-yr Columbia ()
  Prev-clerk S Thomas


  Name Karl R Thompson
  Started 2002
  Ended 2003
  School-yr Chicago
  Prev-clerk Tatel


  Name Abbe R Gluck
  Started 2003
  Ended 2004
  School-yr Yale ()
  Prev-clerk Winter


  Name Aziz Z Huq
  Started 2003
  Ended 2004
  School-yr Columbia ()
  Prev-clerk Sack


  Name Anne M Joseph
  Started 2003
  Ended 2004
  School-yr Yale ()
  Prev-clerk S Williams


  Name Neil S Siegel
  Started 2003
  Ended 2004
  School-yr Berkeley ()
  Prev-clerk Wilkinson


  Name Ginger D Anders
  Started 2004
  Ended 2005
  School-yr Columbia ()
  Prev-clerk Sotomayor


  Name Katherine H Ku
  Started 2004
  Ended 2005
  School-yr UCLA
  Prev-clerk Kozinski


  Name Daniel B Levin
  Started 2004
  Ended 2005
  School-yr Yale ()
  Prev-clerk W Fletcher


  Name Dorothy H Tran
  Started 2004
  Ended 2005
  School-yr Harvard ()
  Prev-clerk Tatel


  Name Lori A Alvino
  Started 2005
  Ended 2006
  School-yr Columbia ( 2003 )
  Prev-clerk D Ginsburg


  Name Joshua Ian Civin
  Started 2005
  Ended 2006
  School-yr Yale ( 2003 )
  Prev-clerk Reinhardt


  Name Rebecca Deutsch
  Started 2005
  Ended 2006
  School-yr Yale ( 2002 )
  Prev-clerk Rakoff / Katzmann


  Name Anna-Rose Mathieson
  Started 2005
  Ended 2006
  School-yr Michigan ( 2003 )
  Prev-clerk Boudin






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  Name Laurence Tribe
  Started 1967
  Ended 1968
  School-yr Harvard ( 1966 )
  Prev-clerk Tobrine


  Name Duncan Kennedy
  Started 1970
  Ended 1971
  School-yr Yale ( 1970 )
  Prev-clerk none


  Name Ronald M Gould
  Started 1974
  Ended 1975
  School-yr Michigan ( 1973 )
  Prev-clerk McCree




  Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
  Begin September 25 , 1981
  End January 31 , 2006


  Name Marci Hamilton
  Started 1989
  Ended 1990
  School-yr Penn ( 1988 )
  Prev-clerk Becker


  Name Eugene Volokh
  Started 1993
  Ended 1994
  School-yr UCLA ( 1988 )
  Prev-clerk Kozinski


  Name Viet D Dinh
  Started 1994
  Ended 1995
  School-yr Harvard ( 1993 )
  Prev-clerk Silberman


  Name Richard Bierschbach
  Started 1998
  Ended 1999
  School-yr Michigan ( 1993 )
  Prev-clerk Randolph




  Justice ''' Samuel Alito '''
  Begin 2006
  End present


  Name Sasha Volokh
  Started 2006
  Ended


  Name Ben Horwich
  Started 2006
  Ended


  Name Adam G Ciongoli
  Started 2006
  Ended


  Name Hannah Smith
  Started 2006
  Ended 2006


  Name Jay Jorgensen
  Started 2006
  Ended






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  Name William H Rehnquist
  Started 1952
  Ended 1953
  School-yr Stanford ( 1952 )
  Prev-clerk none




  Justice John Marshall Harlan II
  Begin March 28 , 1955
  End September 23 , 1971


  Name Michael Boudin
  Started 1965
  Ended 1966
  School-yr Harvard ( 1964 )
  Prev-clerk Friendly


  Name Charles Nesson
  Started 1965
  Ended 1966
  School-yr Harvard ( 1965 )
  Prev-clerk none




  Justice William Rehnquist
  Begin January 7 , 1972
  End September 26 , 1986


  Name Maureen Mahoney
  Started 1979
  Ended 1980
  School-yr Chicago ( 1978 )
  Prev-clerk Sprecher


  Name John Roberts
  Started 1980
  Ended 1981
  School-yr Harvard ( 1979 )
  Prev-clerk Friendly




  Justice ''' Antonin Scalia '''
  Begin September 26 , 1986
  End present


  Name Lawrence Lessig
  Started 1990
  Ended 1991
  School-yr Yale ( 1989 )
  Prev-clerk Posner


  Name Jeffrey Sutton
  Started 1991
  Ended 1992
  School-yr Ohio State ( 1990 )
  Prev-clerk Meskill


  Name Paul Clement
  Started 1993
  Ended 1994
  School-yr Harvard ( 1992 )
  Prev-clerk Silberman


  Name Dan Bress
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr UVA ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Wilkinson


  Name Louis A Chaiten
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Northwestern ( 1998 )
  Prev-clerk Sutton


  Name Joshua Lipshutz
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Stanford ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Kozinski


  Name Hashim Mooppan
  Started 2006
  Ended
  School-yr Harvard ( 2005 )
  Prev-clerk Luttig






  { Border 1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2
  Name Lewis Sargentich
  Started 1970
  Ended 1971
  School-yr Harvard ( 1970 )


  Name Douglas H Ginsburg
  Started 1974
  Ended 1975
  School-yr Chicago ( 1973 )


  Name Cass Sunstein
  Started 1979
  Ended 1980
  School-yr Harvard ( 1978 )


  Name Stephen L Carter
  Started 1980
  Ended 1981
  School-yr Yale ( 1979 )


  Name William W Fisher III
  Started 1983
  Ended 1984
  School-yr Harvard ( 1982 )


  Name Eben Moglen
  Started 1986
  Ended 1987
  School-yr Yale ( 1985 )




  Justice ''' Clarence Thomas '''
  Begin October 23 , 1991
  End present


  Name Laura Ingraham
  Started 1992
  Ended 1993
  School-yr UVA ( 1991 )


  Name John Yoo
  Started 1993
  Ended 1994
  School-yr Yale ( 1992 )


  Name John Adams
  Started 2006
  Ended


  Name Brandt Leibe
  Started 2006
  Ended


  Name Heath Tarbert
  Started 2006
  Ended