List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 4)

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 4.

* 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=Hugo Black
begin=August 19, 1937
end=September 17, 1971SCOTUS clerk
name=John Paul Frank
started=1942?
ended=1942?
school-yr=Wisconsin (1940)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Louis F. Oberdorfer
started=1946
ended=1947
school-yr=Yale (1946)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=William Joslin
started=1947
ended=1948
school-yr=Columbia (1947)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Charles Reich
started=1953
ended=1954
school-yr=Yale (1952)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Guido Calabresi
started=1958
ended=1959
school-yr=Yale (1958)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Nicholas Johnson
started=1959
ended=1960
school-yr=Texas (1956)
prev-clerk=BrownSCOTUS clerk
name=Floyd F. Feeney
started=1961
ended=1962
school-yr=NYU (1960)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=A. E. Dick Howard
started=1961
ended=1962
school-yr=UVA (1961)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Drayton Nabers, Jr.
started=1965
ended=1966
school-yr=Yale (1965)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephen D. Susman
started=1966
ended=1967
school-yr=Texas (1965)
prev-clerk=BrownSCOTUS clerk
name=Joseph Price
started=1967
ended=1968
school-yr=Harvard (1964)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Walter E. Dellinger, III
started=1968
ended=1969
school-yr=Yale (1968)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Larry A. Hammond
started=1971
ended=September 17, 1971
school-yr=Texas (1970)
prev-clerk=McGowanSCOTUS clerk
name=Covert E. Parnell III
started=1971
ended=September 17, 1971
school-yr=???? (????)
prev-clerk=????

Start SCOTUS clerk table
justice=Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.
begin=January 7, 1972
end=June 26, 1987SCOTUS clerk
name=Larry A. Hammond
started=January 7, 1972
ended=July, 1972
school-yr=Texas (1970)
prev-clerk=McGowan/BlackSCOTUS clerk
name=Covert E. Parnell III
started=January 7, 1972
ended=July, 1972
school-yr=???? (????)
prev-clerk=????/BlackSCOTUS clerk
name=J. Harvie Wilkinson III
started=January 7, 1972
ended=July, 1972
school-yr=UVA (1972)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Larry A. Hammond
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=Texas (1970)
prev-clerk=McGowan/Black/PowellSCOTUS clerk
name=William C. Kelly
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=???? (????)
prev-clerk=CoffinSCOTUS clerk
name=J. Harvie Wilkinson III
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=UVA (1972)
prev-clerk=PowellSCOTUS clerk
name=John J. Buckley
started=1973
ended=1974
school-yr=Chicago (1972)
prev-clerk=WisdomSCOTUS clerk
name=John C. Jeffries
started=1973
ended=1974
school-yr=UVA (1973)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Jack B. Owens
started=1973
ended=1974
school-yr=Stanford (1970)
prev-clerk=????SCOTUS clerk
name=Julia Penny Clark
started=1974
ended=1975
school-yr=Texas (1973)
prev-clerk=CravenSCOTUS clerk
name=Eric G. Andersen
started=1978
ended=1979
school-yr=BYU (1977)
prev-clerk=WallaceSCOTUS clerk
name=Paul M. Smith
started=1980
ended= 1981
school-yr=Yale (1979)
prev-clerk=OakesSCOTUS clerk
name=Mary E. Becker
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Chicago (1980)
prev-clerk=MikvaSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard H. Fallon
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Yale (1980)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=David F. Levi
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Stanford (1980)
prev-clerk=DuniwaySCOTUS clerk
name=John S. Wiley
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Berkeley (1980)
prev-clerk=CoffinSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael F. Sturley
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=Yale (1981)
prev-clerk=KearseSCOTUS clerk
name=James O. Browning
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=UVA (1981)
prev-clerk=SeitzSCOTUS clerk
name=Joseph E. Neuhaus
started=1983
ended=1984
school-yr=Columbia (1982)
prev-clerk=McGowanSCOTUS clerk
name=Lynda Guild Simpson
started=1984
ended=1985
school-yr=Chicago (1982)
prev-clerk=KearseSCOTUS clerk
name=C. Cabell Chinnis
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=Yale (1984)
prev-clerk=WisdomSCOTUS clerk
name=Anne M. Coughlin
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=NYU (1984)
prev-clerk=NewmanSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael W. Mosman
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=BYU (1984)
prev-clerk=WilkeySCOTUS clerk
name=William J. Stuntz
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=UVA (1984)
prev-clerk=Pollak (E.D. Pa.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Andrew D. Leipold
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=UVA (1985)
prev-clerk=MikvaSCOTUS clerk
name=R. Hewitt Pate
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=UVA (1987)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk|
name=Jeffrey S. Sutton (shared with Scalia)
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=OSU (1990)
prev-clerk=MeskillSCOTUS clerk
name=Deanne Maynard
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Harvard (1991)
prev-clerk=Harris (D.D.C.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Mark David Harris (shared with Stevens)
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Harvard (1992)
prev-clerk=Flaum

Start SCOTUS clerk table
justice=Anthony Kennedy
begin=February 18, 1988
end=presentSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel C. Chung
started=February 18, 1988
ended=July, 1988
school-yr=Harvard (1987)
prev-clerk=KennedySCOTUS clerk
name=Miguel A. Estrada
started=February 18, 1988
ended=July, 1988
school-yr=Harvard (1986)
prev-clerk=KearseSCOTUS clerk
name=Peter D. Keisler
started=February 18, 1988
ended=July, 1988
school-yr=Yale (1985)
prev-clerk=BorkSCOTUS clerk
name=E. Lawrence Vincent
started=February 18, 1988
ended=July, 1988
school-yr=Texas (1987)
prev-clerk=KennedySCOTUS clerk
name=Elizabeth D. Collery (served first half only, replaced by Litman)
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Harvard (1986)
prev-clerk=D. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Miguel A. Estrada (served first half only, replaced by Cordray)
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Harvard (1986)
prev-clerk=Kearse/KennedySCOTUS clerk
name=Thomas G. Hungar
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Yale (1987)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Peter D. Keisler (served first half only, replaced by Cappuccio)
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Yale (1985)
prev-clerk=Bork/KennedySCOTUS clerk
name=Paul T. Cappuccio (served second half only)
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Harvard (1986)
prev-clerk=Kozinski/ScaliaSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard A. Cordray (served second half only)
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Chicago (1986)
prev-clerk=Bork/WhiteSCOTUS clerk
name=Harry P. Litman (served second half only)
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Berkeley (1986)
prev-clerk=Mikva/MarshallSCOTUS clerk
name=Jeanne M. Hauch
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Yale (1988)
prev-clerk=WinterSCOTUS clerk
name=Gregory E. Maggs
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Harvard (1988)
prev-clerk=SneedSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael Mollerus
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Harvard (1988)
prev-clerk=J. SmithSCOTUS clerk
name=R. Hewitt Pate
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=UVA (1987)
prev-clerk=Wilkinson/PowellSCOTUS clerk
name=J. Randy Beck
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=SMU (1988)
prev-clerk=HigginbothamSCOTUS clerk
name=Jack L. Goldsmith
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Yale (1989)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=David G. Litt
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Chicago (1988)
prev-clerk=GoodwinSCOTUS clerk
name=K. John Shaffer
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Berkeley (1989)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=David L. Anderson
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Stanford (1990)
prev-clerk=WallaceSCOTUS clerk
name=John E. Barry (shared with Burger)
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Columbia (1985)
prev-clerk=CampbellSCOTUS clerk
name=Ashutosh Bhagwat
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Chicago (1990)
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael C. Dorf
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Harvard (1990)
prev-clerk=ReinhardtSCOTUS clerk
name=Jacqueline Gerson (Cooper)
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Chicago (1990)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Bradford A. Berenson
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Harvard (1991)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Adam H. Charnes
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Harvard (1991)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew H. Lembke
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=UVA (1991)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Christopher R. J. Pace
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Penn (1990)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Miles F. Ehrlich
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Stanford (1992)
prev-clerk=NorrisSCOTUS clerk
name=Gary S. Feinerman
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Stanford (1991)
prev-clerk=FlaumSCOTUS clerk
name=Nathan A. Forrester
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Chicago (1992)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Neil M. Gorsuch (shared with White)
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Harvard (1991)
prev-clerk=SentelleSCOTUS clerk
name=Brett M. Kavanaugh
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Yale (1990)
prev-clerk=Stapleton/KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Susan M. Davies
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Chicago (????)
prev-clerk=BreyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael J. Hirshland
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=UVA (1993)
prev-clerk=LuttigSCOTUS clerk
name=Cheryl A. Krause (Zemelman)
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Stanford (1993)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel Meron
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Harvard (1993)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Nancy L. Combs
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Berkeley (????)
prev-clerk=O'ScannlainSCOTUS clerk
name=Ward Farnsworth
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Chicago (1994)
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephen B. Kinnaird
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Yale (1994)
prev-clerk=WalkerSCOTUS clerk
name=Kelly M. Klaus
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Stanford (1992)
prev-clerk=Orrick (N.D. Cal.) / RymerSCOTUS clerk
name=John P. Elwood
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Yale (1993)
prev-clerk=MahoneySCOTUS clerk
name=F. Allen Ferrell
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Harvard (1995)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Renee B. Lettow (Lerner)
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Yale (1995)
prev-clerk=S. WilliamsSCOTUS clerk
name=Anthony J. Vlatas
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Columbia (1994)
prev-clerk=Leisure (S.D.N.Y.) / KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephanos Bibas
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Yale (1994)
prev-clerk=HigginbothamSCOTUS clerk
name=Raymond M. Kethledge
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Michigan (1993)
prev-clerk=GuySCOTUS clerk
name=Harry P. Susman
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Texas (1996)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Christopher S. Yoo
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Northwestern (1995)
prev-clerk=RandolphSCOTUS clerk
name=Lisa Grow (Sun)
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Harvard (1997)
prev-clerk=LuttigSCOTUS clerk
name=Howard C. Nielson
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Chicago (1997)
prev-clerk=LuttigSCOTUS clerk
name=Edward S. Pallesen
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Harvard (1997)
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=John-Christopher Rozendaal
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Texas (1997)
prev-clerk=D. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=James F. Bennett
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Vanderbilt (1995)
prev-clerk=EdmondsonSCOTUS clerk
name=William A. Burck
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Yale (1998)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephen M. Nickelsburg
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=UVA (1998)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael Y. Scudder
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Northwestern (1998)
prev-clerk=NiemeyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Grant M. Dixton
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Harvard (1999)
prev-clerk=LuttigSCOTUS clerk
name=Brett C. Gerry
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Yale (1999)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Kevin J. Miller
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Chicago (1999)
prev-clerk=J. SmithSCOTUS clerk
name=Eugene M. Paige
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Harvard (1999)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Steven A. Engel
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Yale (2000)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=John C. Neiman
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Harvard (2000)
prev-clerk=NiemeyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Yale (1999)
prev-clerk=EasterbrookSCOTUS clerk
name=Alexander Willscher
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Chicago (2000)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Rachel L. Brand
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Harvard (1998)
prev-clerk=Fried (Mass.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Brian R. Matsui
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Stanford (1999)
prev-clerk=Levi (E.D. Cal.) / RymerSCOTUS clerk
name=Igor V. Timofeyev
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Yale (2001)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael F. Williams
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Georgetown (2001)
prev-clerk=D. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Bertrand-Marc Allen
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Yale (2002)
prev-clerk=LuttigSCOTUS clerk
name=Edward C. Dawson
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Texas (2002)
prev-clerk=CarnesSCOTUS clerk
name=Orin S. Kerr
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Harvard (1997)
prev-clerk=GarthSCOTUS clerk
name=Chi T. Kwok
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Yale (2002)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Andrew C. Baak
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Chicago (2003)
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Kathryn R. Haun
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Stanford (2000)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael E. Scoville
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Harvard (2003)
prev-clerk=LuttigSCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew C. Stephenson
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Harvard (2003)
prev-clerk=S. WilliamsSCOTUS clerk
name=David M. Cooper
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Stanford (2004)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Randy J. Kozel
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Harvard (2004)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Harvard (2004)
prev-clerk=RobertsSCOTUS clerk
name=Zachary S. Price
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Harvard (2003)
prev-clerk=Blake (D. Md.) / TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=David Foster
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Harvard (2005)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Lisa Marshall
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Yale (2005)
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=Eric Murphy
started=2006
ended= 2007
school-yr=Chicago (2005)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Mark Yohalem
started=2006
ended= 2007
school-yr=Harvard (2005)
prev-clerk=RymerSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael Chu
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Harvard (2006)
prev-clerk=D. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephen Cowen
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Chicago (2006)
prev-clerk=D. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Andrianna Kastanek
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Northwestern (2005)
prev-clerk=RippleSCOTUS clerk
name=C.J. Mahoney
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2006)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Ashley Keller
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Chicago (2007)
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Travis Lenkner
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Kansas (2005)
prev-clerk=KavanaughSCOTUS clerk
name=Steven Shepard
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2007)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Chris Walker
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Stanford (2006)
prev-clerk=Kozinski

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