- List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 3)
Law clerk s have assisted Supreme Court Justices in various capacities since the first one was hired by JusticeHorace Gray in the 1880s. By the traditions and rules that have developed around this procedure today Associate Justices on theSupreme 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 3.
* The names of Justices who are active (as of Justice Samuel Alito's appointment onJanuary 31 ,2006 ) are in bold.-
William Henry Moody
December 17 ,1906 –November 20 ,1910 Start SCOTUS clerk table
justice=Joseph Rucker Lamar
begin=January 3 ,1911
end=January 2 ,1916 SCOTUS clerk
name=John E. Hoover
started=1912
ended=1916
school-yr=
prev-clerk=Peckham/Harlan ISCOTUS clerk
name=S. Edward Widdifield
started=1910
ended=1912
school-yr=
prev-clerk=PeckhamStart SCOTUS clerk table
justice=Louis Dembitz Brandeis
begin=June 5 ,1916
end=February 13 ,1939 SCOTUS clerk
name=Calvert Magruder
started=1916
ended=1917
school-yr=Harvard (1916 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Dean Acheson
started=1919
ended=1921
school-yr=Harvard (1918 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Henry Friendly
started=1927
ended=1928
school-yr=Harvard (1927 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Harry Shulman
started=1929
ended=1934
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=James Willard Hurst
started=1935
ended=1937
school-yr=Harvard (1935 )
prev-clerk=noneStart SCOTUS clerk table
justice=William O. Douglas
begin=April 17 ,1939
end=November 12 ,1975 SCOTUS clerk
name=Vern Countryman
started=1942
ended=1943
school-yr=UW (1942 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Lucile Lomen
started=1944
ended=1945
school-yr=UW (1944 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Warren Christopher
started=1949
ended=1950
school-yr=Stanford (1949 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Charles Ares
started=1952
ended=1953
school-yr=Arizona (1952 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Steven B. Duke
started=1959
ended=1960
school-yr=Arizona (1959 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Thomas J. Klitgaard
started=1961
ended=1962
school-yr=UW (1944 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Hans A. Linde
started=1950
ended=1951
school-yr=Berkeley (1950 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=William A. Norris
started=1955
ended=1956
school-yr=Stanford (1954 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=William Cohen
started=1956
ended=1957
school-yr=UCLA (1956 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Dennis C. Brown
started=1970
ended=1971
school-yr=Berkeley (1961 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Jerome B. Falk, Jr.
started=1965
ended=1966
school-yr=Berkeley (1965 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=William H. Alsup
started=1971
ended=1972
school-yr=Harvard (1971 )
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Alan B. Sternstein
started=1975
ended=November 12 ,1975
school-yr=Arizona (1975 )
prev-clerk=noneStart SCOTUS clerk table
justice=John Paul Stevens
begin=December 19 ,1975
end=presentSCOTUS clerk
name=Sharon Baldwin
started=1975
ended=1976
school-yr=( )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Charles (Skip) Paul
started=1975
ended=1976
school-yr=( )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=George A. Rutherglen
started=1975
ended=1976
school-yr=( )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Gregory A. Huffaker, Jr.
started=1976
ended=1977
school-yr=( 1975 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=David V. Kirby
started=1976
ended=1977
school-yr=( 1975 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Stewart A. Baker
started=1977
ended=1978
school-yr=UCLA (1976 )
prev-clerk=CoffinSCOTUS clerk
name=Francis (Frank) S. Blake
started=1976
ended=1977
school-yr=( 1976 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=John E. Muench
started=1977
ended=1978
school-yr=Northwestern (1976 )
prev-clerk=SprecherSCOTUS clerk
name=Susan R. Estrich
started=1978
ended=1979
school-yr=Harvard (1977 )
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=James S. Liebman
started=1978
ended=1979
school-yr=( 1977 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Peter D. Isakoff
started=1979
ended=1980
school-yr=( 1978 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Michele Odorizzi
started=1979
ended=1980
school-yr=( 1978 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Jeffrey R. Tone
started=1980
ended=1981
school-yr=[1979] )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Constantine (Connie) Trela
started=1980
ended=1981
school-yr=Northwestern (1979 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=David DeBruin
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Michigan (1980 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew Verschelden
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=( 1980 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Carol F. Lee
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=Yale (1981 )
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=Jeffrey S. Lehman
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=Michigan (1981 )
prev-clerk=CoffinSCOTUS clerk
name=Lawrence E. Rosenthal
started=1983
ended=1984
school-yr=Harvard (1982 )
prev-clerk=MarshallSCOTUS clerk
name=John R. Schaibley, III
started=1983
ended=1984
school-yr=( 1982 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Richard (Brad) Kapnick
started=1984
ended=1985
school-yr=Chicago (1983 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=James E. McCollum
started=1984
ended=1985
school-yr=Howard (1983 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Stephen Marzen
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=Harvard (1983 )
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Clifford M. Sloan
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=( 1983 )
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=Ronald D. Lee
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=Yale (1985 )
prev-clerk=MikvaSCOTUS clerk
name=Lawrence C. Marshall
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=Northwestern (1985 )
prev-clerk=WaldSCOTUS clerk
name=Teresa Wynn Roseborough
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=UNC (1985 )
prev-clerk=PhillipsSCOTUS clerk
name=Abner Greene
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=Michigan (1986)
prev-clerk=WaldSCOTUS clerk
name=Randolph D. Moss
started=1987
ended=1989
school-yr=Yale (1986 )
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=Diane Amann
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Northwestern (1986 )
prev-clerk=Marshall (N.D. Ill.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Lewis J. Liman
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Yale (1987 )
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=Marina C. Hsieh
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Berkeley (1988 )
prev-clerk=Pollak (E.D. Pa.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Christopher Eisgruber
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Chicago (1988 )
prev-clerk=HigginbothamSCOTUS clerk
name=Preeta D. Bansal
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Harvard (1989 )
prev-clerk=OakesSCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew Roberts
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Harvard (1989 )
prev-clerk=GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Nancy Marder
started=1990
ended=1992
school-yr=Yale (1987 )
prev-clerk=NorrisSCOTUS clerk
name=Robert Schapiro
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Yale (1990 )
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=Pamela Harris
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Yale (1990 )
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Kathleen Moriarty
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Northwestern (1990 )
prev-clerk=WaldSCOTUS clerk
name=Douglas A. Winthrop
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Minnesota (1991 )
prev-clerk=WaldSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel M. Klerman
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Chicago (1991 )
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Mark David Harris (shared with Powell)
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Harvard (1992 )
prev-clerk=FlaumSCOTUS clerk
name=Jonathan E. Levitsky
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Yale (1995 )
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=Benjamin A. Powell (shared with White)
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Columbia (1996 )
prev-clerk=WalkerSCOTUS clerk
name=Jeffrey L. Fisher
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Michigan (1997 )
prev-clerk=ReinhardtSCOTUS clerk
name=Adam Samaha
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Harvard (1996 )
prev-clerk=Keith (Minn.)SCOTUS clerk
name=J. Brett Busby (shared with White)
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Columbia (1998 )
prev-clerk=TjoflatSCOTUS clerk
name=Sonja West
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Chicago (1998 )
prev-clerk=D. W. NelsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Eduardo M. Peñalver
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Yale ()
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Andrew M. Siegel
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=NYU ()
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=Joseph T. Thai (shared with White)
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Harvard (1998 )
prev-clerk=EbelSCOTUS clerk
name=Anne M. Voigts
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Columbia ()
prev-clerk=ReinhardtSCOTUS clerk
name=Kathleen R. Hartnett
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Harvard ()
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Alison J. Nathan
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Cornell ()
prev-clerk=B. FletcherSCOTUS clerk
name=Edward N. Siskel
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Chicago ()
prev-clerk=D. W. NelsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Troy A. McKenzie
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=NYU (2000 )
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=Eric R. Olson
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Michigan ()
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Kathryn A. Watts
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Northwestern ()
prev-clerk=RandolphSCOTUS clerk
name=Amy J. Wildermuth
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Illinois ()
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Leondra R. Kruger
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Yale (2001 )
prev-clerk=TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=Amanda C. Leiter
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Harvard (2000 )
prev-clerk=Gertner (D. Mass.) / TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=Margaret H. Lemos
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=NYU ()
prev-clerk=LipezSCOTUS clerk
name=Benjamin C. Mizer
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Michigan ()
prev-clerk=J. RogersSCOTUS clerk
name=Melissa B. Arbus
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=UVA (2003 )
prev-clerk=MotzSCOTUS clerk
name=Roberto J. Gonzalez
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Stanford (2003 )
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael J. Gottlieb
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Harvard (2003 )
prev-clerk=ReinhardtSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel J. Powell
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Chicago (2003 )
prev-clerk=W. FletcherSCOTUS clerk
name=Jean Galbraith
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Berkeley (2004 )
prev-clerk=TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel Lenerz
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Stanford (2002 )
prev-clerk=Thompson (M.D. Ala.) / S. WilliamsSCOTUS clerk
name=Sarah Eddy McCallum
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Georgetown (2002 )
prev-clerk=Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.) / WalkerSCOTUS clerk
name=Sam Spital
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Harvard (2004 )
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Nick Bagley
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=NYU (2005 )
prev-clerk=TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=Chad Golder
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Yale (2005 )
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Jamal Greene
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Yale (2005 )
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Lauren Sudeall
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Harvard (2005 )
prev-clerk=ReinhardtSCOTUS clerk
name=Todd Gluth
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Berkeley (2005 )
prev-clerk=W. FletcherSCOTUS clerk
name=Sara Klein
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Cardozo (2005 )
prev-clerk=Barry/Lifland (D.N.J.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Kate Shaw
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Northwestern (2006 )
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Abby Wright
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Penn (2006 )
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Jessica Bulman-Pozen
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2007 )
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Cecelia Klingele
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Wisconsin (2005 )
prev-clerk=Crabb (W.D. Wis.) / S. BlackSCOTUS clerk
name=Lindsey Powell
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Stanford (2007 )
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Damian Williams
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2007 )
prev-clerk=GarlandReferences
List of clerks to Justice John Paul Stevens, provided to present and former law clerks
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