List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 2)

Law clerks have assisted Supreme Court Justices in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in the 1880s. By the traditions and rules that have developed around this procedure today Associate Justices on the Supreme Court of the United States have the opportunity to select four law clerks each term of the court. The Chief Justice is allowed five clerks, though late Chief Justice Rehnquist usually only hired three.

The following is a still-incomplete table of Supreme Court law clerks who served the Justice holding Seat 2.

* The names of Justices who are active (as of Justice Samuel Alito's appointment on January 31, 2006) are in bold.

Start SCOTUS clerk table
justice=Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
begin=December 8, 1902
end=January 12, 1932SCOTUS clerk
name=Charles K. Poe
started=1905
ended=1906
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Augustin Derby
started=1906
ended=1907
school-yr=Harvard (1906)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Howard Stockton
started=1907
ended=1908
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Erland F. Fish
started=1908
ended=1909
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Leland B. Duer
started=1909
ended=1910
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Irving S. Olds
started=1910
ended=1911
school-yr=Harvard (1910)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Francis Biddle
started=1911
ended=1912
school-yr=Harvard (1911)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Stanley Clarke
started=1912
ended=1913
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=George L. Harrison
started=1913
ended=1914
school-yr=Harvard
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Harvey Hollister Bundy
started=1914
ended=1915
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Chauncey Belknap
started=1915
ended=1916
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Shelton Hale
started=1916
ended=1917
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Vaughn Miller
started=1917
ended=1918
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Lloyd H. Landau
started=1918
ended=1919
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Stanley Morrison
started=1919
ended=1920
school-yr=Harvard (1917)
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Day Kimball
started=1920
ended=1921
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Laurence Curtis
started=1921
ended=1922
school-yr=Harvard (1921)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Robert M. Benjamin
started=1922
ended=1923
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=James M. Nicely
started=1923
ended=1924
school-yr=Harvard
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=W. Barton Leach
started=1924
ended=1925
school-yr=Harvard (1924)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Charles Denby, Jr.
started=1925
ended=1926
school-yr=Harvard
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Thomas Gardiner Corcoran
started=1926
ended=1927
school-yr=Harvard (1926)
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Arthur E. Sutherland
started=1927
ended=1928
school-yr=Harvard (1925)
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=John E. Lockwood
started=1928
ended=1929
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Alger Hiss
started=1929
ended=1930
school-yr=Harvard (1929)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Robert W. Wales
started=1930
ended=1931
school-yr=Harvard
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=H. Chapman Rose
started=1931
ended=1932
school-yr=Harvard
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Donald Hiss
started=1932
ended=1933
school-yr=Harvard
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Mark DeWolfe Howe
started=1933
ended=1934
school-yr=Harvard
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=James H. Rowe
started=1934
ended=1935
school-yr=Harvard
prev-clerk=

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justice=Benjamin N. Cardozo
begin=March 14, 1932
end=July 9, 1938SCOTUS clerk
name=Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
started=1936
ended=1938
school-yr=Harvard (1935)
prev-clerk=Start SCOTUS clerk table
justice=Felix Frankfurter
begin=January 30, 1939
end=August 28, 1962SCOTUS clerk
name=Chuck Norris.
started=1939
ended=1939
school-yr=Harvard (1935)
prev-clerk=CardozoSCOTUS clerk
name=Adrian S. Fisher
started=1939
ended=1940
school-yr=Harvard (1937)
prev-clerk=BrandeisSCOTUS clerk
name=Edward F. Prichard, Jr.
started=1939
ended=1940
school-yr=Harvard (1938)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Phil Graham
started=1940
ended=1941
school-yr=Harvard (1939)
prev-clerk=ReedSCOTUS clerk
name=Philip Kurland
started=1945
ended=1946
school-yr=Harvard (1944)
prev-clerk=FrankSCOTUS clerk
name=Father Milorad
started=1946
ended=1947
school-yr=Harvard (1940)
prev-clerk=L. HandSCOTUS clerk
name=William Thaddeus Coleman
started=1948
ended=1949
school-yr=Harvard (1940)
prev-clerk=GoodrichSCOTUS clerk
name=Alexander Bickel
started=1952
ended=1953
school-yr=Harvard (1952)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Andrew L. Kaufman
started=1954
ended=1955
school-yr=Harvard (1954)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.
started=1954
ended=1955
school-yr=UVA (1953)
prev-clerk=JacksonSCOTUS clerk
name=Jerry West
started=1955
ended=1956
school-yr=Harvard (1952)
prev-clerk=MagruderSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard N. Goodwin
started=1958
ended=1959
school-yr=Harvard (1958)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Paul Bender
started=1959
ended=1960
school-yr=Harvard (1957)
prev-clerk=L. HandSCOTUS clerk
name=David P. Currie
started=1961
ended=1962
school-yr=Harvard (1960)
prev-clerk=Friendly|Start SCOTUS clerk table
justice=Arthur J. Goldberg
begin=October 1, 1962
end=July 25, 1965SCOTUS clerk
name=Alan Dershowitz
started=1963
ended=1964
school-yr=Yale (1962)
prev-clerk=BazelonSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephen G. Breyer
started=1964
ended=1965
school-yr=Harvard (1964)
prev-clerk=noneStart SCOTUS clerk table
justice=Abe Fortas
begin=October 4, 1965
end=May 14, 1969SCOTUS clerk
name=Peter L. Zimroth
started=1966
ended=1967
school-yr=Yale (1966)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Martha A. Field
started=1968
ended=1969
school-yr=Chicago (1968)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Walter B. Slocombe
started=1968
ended=1969
school-yr=Harvard (1968)
prev-clerk=noneStart SCOTUS clerk table
justice=Harry Blackmun
begin=June 9, 1970
end=August 3, 1994SCOTUS clerk
name=Randall P. Bezanson
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=Iowa (1971)
prev-clerk=RobbSCOTUS clerk
name=Ralph I. Miller
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=Austin (1972)
prev-clerk= []

SCOTUS clerk
name=James J. Knicely
started=1973
ended=1974
school-yr=Harvard (1972)
prev-clerk=RobbSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard Blumenthal
started=1974
ended=1975
school-yr=Yale (1974)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Karen Nelson Moore
started=1974
ended=1975
school-yr=Harvard (1973)
prev-clerk=WilkeySCOTUS clerk
name=Diane Pamela Wood
started=1976
ended=1977
school-yr=Texas (1975)
prev-clerk=GoldbergSCOTUS clerk
name=Keith P. Ellison
started=1977
ended=1978
school-yr=Yale (1976)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=Ruth Wedgwood
started=1977
ended=1978
school-yr=Yale (1976)
prev-clerk=FriendlySCOTUS clerk
name=Thomas W. Merrill
started=1978
ended=1979
school-yr=Chicago (1977)
prev-clerk=BazelonSCOTUS clerk
name=Penda Hair
started=1979
ended=1980
school-yr=Harvard (1978)
prev-clerk=FeinbergSCOTUS clerk
name=Mark Rahdert
started=1979
ended=1980
school-yr=Yale (1978)
prev-clerk=GurfeinSCOTUS clerk
name=Frank Holleman
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Harvard (1979)
prev-clerk=WinterSCOTUS clerk
name=M. Kathleen Kinports
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Penn (????)
prev-clerk=MikvaSCOTUS clerk
name=Harold Hongju Koh
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Harvard (1980)
prev-clerk=WilkeySCOTUS clerk
name=David Van Zandt
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=Yale (1981)
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=David William Ogden
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=Harvard (1981)
prev-clerk=SofaerSCOTUS clerk
name=Vicki Been
started=1984
ended=1985
school-yr=NYU (1983)
prev-clerk=Weinfeld (S.D.N.Y.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Pamela S. Karlan
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=Yale (1984)
prev-clerk=Sofaer (S.D.N.Y.)SCOTUS clerk
name=David Sklansky
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=Harvard (1984)
prev-clerk=MikvaSCOTUS clerk
name=Beth Brinkmann
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=Yale (1985)
prev-clerk=KravitchSCOTUS clerk
name=Emily Buss
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=Yale (1986)
prev-clerk=Pollak (E.D. Pa.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Edward Lazarus
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Yale (1987)
prev-clerk=NorrisSCOTUS clerk
name=Vikram Amar
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Yale (1988)
prev-clerk=NorrisSCOTUS clerk
name=Anne Dupre
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Georgia (1988)
prev-clerk=EdmondsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Andrew H. Schapiro
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Harvard (1990)
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephanie Dangel
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Yale
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Molly McUsic
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Harvard (1984)
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Geoffrey M. Klineberg
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Yale (1990)
prev-clerk=Cabranes/WaldSCOTUS clerk
name=Sherry Colb
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Harvard (1991)
prev-clerk=FeinbergSCOTUS clerk
name=Michelle L. Alexander
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Stanford (1992)
prev-clerk=MikvaSCOTUS clerk
name=Sarah H. Cleveland
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Yale (1992)
prev-clerk=OberdorferSCOTUS clerk
name=Ann Hubbard
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Duke (1992)
prev-clerk=WaldSCOTUS clerk
name=J. Paul Oetken
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Yale (1991)
prev-clerk=Oberdorfer
prev-clerk=CudahySCOTUS clerk
name=Michael Wishnie (shared with Breyer)
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Yale (1993)
prev-clerk=Sarokin| SCOTUS clerk
name=Laura A. Dickinson
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Yale (1996)
prev-clerk=D. W. Nelson

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justice=Stephen Breyer
begin=August 3, 1994
end=presentSCOTUS clerk
name=Henk Brands
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Columbia (1990)
prev-clerk=Souter/BreyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Lisa Schultz Bressman
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Chicago (1993)
prev-clerk=CabranesSCOTUS clerk
name=Deanne Maynard
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Harvard (1991)
prev-clerk=Harris (D.D.C.)/PowellSCOTUS clerk
name=Jonathan T. Molot
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Harvard (1992)
prev-clerk=BreyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Yochai Benkler
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Harvard (1994)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Jennifer G. Newstead
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Yale (1994)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Kevin K. Russell
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Yale (1994)
prev-clerk=NorrisSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael Wishnie (shared with Blackmun)
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Yale (1993)
prev-clerk=Sarokin| SCOTUS clerk
name=Neal Katyal
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Yale (1995)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Aaron M. Panner
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Harvard (1995)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Rachel A. Harmon
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Yale (1996)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Theodore W. Ruger
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Harvard (1995)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Linda T. Coberly
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Michigan (1995)
prev-clerk=D. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Jennifer Martinez
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Harvard (1997)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Colin S. Stretch
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Harvard (1996)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Erin Glenn Busby
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Harvard (1998)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Marc E. Isserles
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Harvard (1998)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Ketanji B. Jackson
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Harvard (1996)
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Tim Wu
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Harvard (1998)
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Danielle Spinelli
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Harvard (1999)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Stacey M. Leyton
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Stanford (1998)
prev-clerk=Reinhardt/Illston (N.D. Cal.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Russell Robinson
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Harvard (1998)
prev-clerk=D. W. NelsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Alexander A. Reinert
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=NYU (1999)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Vince Chhabria
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Berkeley (1998)
prev-clerk=C. Breyer (N.D. Cal.) / BrowningSCOTUS clerk
name=Risa Goluboff
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Yale (2000)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Mirah A. Horowitz
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Duke (2000)
prev-clerk=WardlawSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael Leiter
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Harvard (2000)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Priya Aiyar
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Yale (2001)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=John M. Golden
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Harvard (2000)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Maritza U. Okata
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Yale (2000)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Anne K. Small
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Harvard (2001)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Ariela M. Migdal
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=NYU (2001)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Pratik Shah
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Berkeley (2001)
prev-clerk=W. FletcherSCOTUS clerk
name=Alexandra Walsh
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Stanford (2001)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Davis J. Wang
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Harvard (2002)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Christina D. Burnett
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Yale (1998)
prev-clerk=CabranesSCOTUS clerk
name=James P. Dowden
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Boston College (2000)
prev-clerk=SciricaSCOTUS clerk
name=Aimee Feinberg
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Stanford (2002)
prev-clerk=TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=Jacob J. Sullivan
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Yale (2003)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Danielle Gray
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Harvard (2003)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Kathryn Judge
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Stanford (2004)
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Jon Kravis
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Yale (2004)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=John Longwell
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Georgia (1999)
prev-clerk=D. Ginsburg/V. Walker (N.D. Cal.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Jaren Casazza
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Columbia (2004)
prev-clerk=Jacobs/Wood (S.D.N.Y.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Tacy Flint
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Chicago (2004)
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephen Shackelford
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Harvard (2005)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Thiru Vignarajah
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Harvard (2005)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael Bosworth
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2003)
prev-clerk=Rakoff (S.D. NY)/KatzmannSCOTUS clerk
name=Karen Dunn
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2006)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Eric Feigin
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Stanford (2005)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Philippa M. Scarlett
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Columbia (2003)
prev-clerk=A. WilliamsSCOTUS clerk
name=Seth Grossman
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2005)
prev-clerk=Reinhardt/CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Aileen M. McGrath
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Harvard (2007)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew E. Price
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Harvard (2006)
prev-clerk=Boudin

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