List of law schools by United States Supreme Court Justices trained

List of law schools by United States Supreme Court Justices trained

Three or more Justices

Harvard Law School

#Harry Blackmun
#Louis Brandeis
#William J. Brennan, Jr.
#Stephen Breyer
#Harold Hitz Burton
#Felix Frankfurter
#Melville Fuller - did not graduate
#Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
#Anthony Kennedy
#William Henry Moody - did not graduate
#Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.
#John Roberts
#Edward Terry Sanford
#Antonin Scalia
#David Hackett Souter

Columbia Law School

#Benjamin N. Cardozo - completed two years, did not graduate
#William O. Douglas
#Ruth Bader Ginsburg - also attended Harvard Law School
#Charles Evans Hughes
#Stanley Forman Reed - also attended University of Virginia School of Law, did not graduate from either
#Harlan Fiske Stone

Yale Law School

#Samuel Alito
#Abe Fortas
#Potter Stewart
#Clarence Thomas
#Byron White

University of Michigan Law School

#George Sutherland
#Frank Murphy
#William Rufus Day

Two Justices

Cincinnati Law School

#Willis Van Devanter
#William Howard Taft

Cumberland School of Law

#Howell Edmunds Jackson
#Horace Harmon Lurton

Northwestern University School of Law

#Arthur Goldberg
#John Paul Stevens

Stanford Law School

#Sandra Day O'Connor
#William Rehnquist

University of Virginia School of Law

#James Clark McReynolds
#Stanley Forman Reed - also attended Columbia Law School, did not graduate from either

Washington and Lee University Law School

#Joseph Rucker Lamar
#Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.

One Justice

Albany Law School

#Robert H. Jackson - completed one year of the two year program

Emory University School of Law

#Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar - Also served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior

Howard University School of Law

#Thurgood Marshall

Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington

#Sherman Minton

Middle Temple (England)

#John Rutledge

New York Law School

#John Marshall Harlan II

University of Alabama School of Law

#Hugo Black

University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall

#Earl Warren

University of Colorado School of Law

#Wiley Blount Rutledge

University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law

#Charles Evans Whittaker

University of Pennsylvania Law School

#Owen Josephus Roberts

University of Texas School of Law

#Tom C. Clark

William Mitchell College of Law

#Warren Earl Burger

University or college trained

These justices were educated at the equivalent of what would today be an undergraduate level, but did not receive legal education at the graduate level, the model under which law schools in the U.S. are currently organized.

Carleton College

#Pierce Butler

Case Western Reserve University

#John Hessin Clarke

Centre College

#Frederick Moore Vinson

College of Philadelphia

#James Wilson - also attended the Universities of St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, Scotland

College of William and Mary

#John Marshall
#Phillip Pendelton Barbour
#Bushrod Washington

Columbia University

#John Jay

Georgetown University

#Edward Douglass White

Princeton University

#Oliver Ellsworth
#William Paterson
#Mahlon Pitney

Saint Joseph's University

#Joseph McKenna - also took law courses at Columbia Law School but was not enrolled in a degree program

Trinity College, Dublin

#Frank Murphy

University of Michigan

#William R. Day

Yale University

#Sherman Minton

No university legal education

Some justices received no legal education in a university setting, but were instead either trained through apprenticeships or were self-taught, as was common with many lawyers prior to the mid-20th Century.

#James F. Byrnes
#Samuel Chase
#John Hessin Clarke
#James Iredell
#Thomas Johnson
#Joseph McKenna

See also

* List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States
* List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition
* List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by education
* List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by time in office
*List of law schools in the United States


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