List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 8)

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 8.

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

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Mahlon Pitney
March 18, 1912 – December 31, 1922

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justice=Edward Terry Sanford
begin=February 19, 1923
end=March 8, 1930SCOTUS clerk
name=William R. Loney
started=1922
ended=1930
school-yr=
prev-clerk=

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justice=Owen Josephus Roberts
begin=June 2, 1930
end=July 31, 1945SCOTUS clerk
name=William R. Loney
started=1930
ended=1931
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SanfordSCOTUS clerk
name=Albert J. Schneider
started=1930
ended=1945
school-yr=
prev-clerk=

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justice=Harold Hitz Burton
begin=October 1, 1945
end=October 13, 1958SCOTUS clerk
name=John M. Leahy
started=1952
ended=1953
school-yr=Columbus (1950)
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Thomas N. O'Neill, Jr.
started=1954
ended=1955
school-yr=Penn (1953)
prev-clerk=Goodrich

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justice=Potter Stewart
begin=October 14, 1958
end=July 3, 1981SCOTUS clerk
name=Robert Hudec
started=1961
ended=1963
school-yr=Yale (1961)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Laurence Tribe
started=1967
ended=1968
school-yr=Harvard (1966)
prev-clerk=Tobriner (Cal.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Duncan Kennedy
started=1970
ended=1971
school-yr=Yale (1970)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=John G. Koeltl
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=Harvard (1971)
prev-clerk=Weinfeld (E.D.N.Y.)SCOTUS clerk
name=James R. Bieke
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=Michigan (1970)
prev-clerk=Lumbard/HarlanSCOTUS clerk
name=Andrew D. Hurwitz
started=1973
ended=1974
school-yr=Yale (1972)
prev-clerk=Newman (D. Conn.) / J.J. SmithSCOTUS clerk
name=Ronald M. Gould
started=1974
ended=1975
school-yr=Michigan (1973)
prev-clerk=McCreeSCOTUS clerk
name=Curt Hessler
started=1974
ended=1975
school-yr=Yale (1973)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=Gilbert L. Kujovich (shared with White)
started=1976
ended=1977
school-yr=Harvard (1975)
prev-clerk=HufstedlerSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel Meltzer
started=1976
ended=1977
school-yr=Harvard (1975)
prev-clerk=McGowanSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel R. Fischel
started=1978
ended=1979
school-yr=Chicago (1977)
prev-clerk=FairchildSCOTUS clerk
name=Robert Weisberg
started=1980
ended=1981
school-yr=Stanford (1979)
prev-clerk=Wright

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justice=Sandra Day O'Connor
begin=September 25, 1981
end=January 31, 2006SCOTUS clerk
name=Brian G. Cartwright
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Harvard (1980)
prev-clerk=WilkeySCOTUS clerk
name=John B. Dwyer
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Berkeley (1980)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Deborah A. Jones (Merritt)
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Columbia (1980)
prev-clerk=R. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Ruth V. McGregor
started=1981
ended= 1982
school-yr=Arizona State (1974)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Gary L. Francione
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=UVA (1981)
prev-clerk=TateSCOTUS clerk
name=Stewart J. Schwab
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=Michigan (1980)
prev-clerk=PhillipsSCOTUS clerk
name=M. Kathleen Smalley
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=Harvard (1981)
prev-clerk=WisdomSCOTUS clerk
name=Jane F. Vehko
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=W&M (????)
prev-clerk=HillSCOTUS clerk
name=Peter W. Huber
started=1983
ended= 1984
school-yr=Harvard (1982)
prev-clerk=R. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Glen D. Nager
started=1983
ended=1984
school-yr=Stanford (1982)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=Victoria L. Radd (Rollins)
started=1983
ended=1984
school-yr=Harvard (1982)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard G. Taranto
started=1983
ended= 1984
school-yr=Yale (1981)
prev-clerk=Sofaer (S.D.N.Y.) / BorkSCOTUS clerk
name=Gail B. Agrawal
started=1984
ended=1985
school-yr=Tulane (1983)
prev-clerk=WisdomSCOTUS clerk
name=W. Scott Bales
started=1984
ended=1985
school-yr=Harvard (1983)
prev-clerk=SneedSCOTUS clerk
name=Kent D. Syverud
started=1984
ended=1985
school-yr=Michigan (1981)
prev-clerk=Oberdorfer (D.D.C.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Barbara B. Woodhouse
started=1984
ended=1985
school-yr=Columbia (1983)
prev-clerk=Sofaer (S.D.N.Y.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Christopher D. Cerf
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=Columbia (1984)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephen G. Gilles
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=Chicago (1984)
prev-clerk=BorkSCOTUS clerk
name=Julie R. O'Sullivan
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=Cornell (????)
prev-clerk=CampbellSCOTUS clerk
name=John K. Setear
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=Yale (1984)
prev-clerk=McGowanSCOTUS clerk
name=Charles A. Blanchard
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=Harvard (1985)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel J. Bussel
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=Stanford (1985)
prev-clerk=BreyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Susan A. Creighton
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=Stanford (1984)
prev-clerk=RymerSCOTUS clerk
name=Joan I. Greco
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=Harvard (????)
prev-clerk=R. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Sharon L. Beckman
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=Michigan (1986)
prev-clerk=CoffinSCOTUS clerk
name=Steven T. Catlett
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=Columbia (1985)
prev-clerk=StarrSCOTUS clerk
name=Susan A. Dunn
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=Stanford (1986)
prev-clerk=SneedSCOTUS clerk
name=Nelson Lund
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=Chicago (1985)
prev-clerk=HigginbothamSCOTUS clerk
name=Adalberto J. Jordan
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Miami (1987)
prev-clerk=ClarkSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel M. Mandil
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Columbia (1987)
prev-clerk=R. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Andrew G. McBride
started=1988
ended= 1989
school-yr=Stanford (1987)
prev-clerk=BorkSCOTUS clerk
name=Jane E. Stromseth
started=1988
ended= 1989
school-yr=Yale (1987)
prev-clerk=Oberdorfer (D.D.C.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Ivan K. Fong
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Stanford (1987)
prev-clerk=MikvaSCOTUS clerk
name=Marci A. Hamilton
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Penn (1988)
prev-clerk=BeckerSCOTUS clerk
name=Sandra Segal Ikuta
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=UCLA (1988)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard D. Klingler
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Stanford (1988)
prev-clerk=StarrSCOTUS clerk
name=Iman Anabtawi
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Stanford (1989)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Kevin M. Kelly
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=UCLA (????)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Denise Posse-Blanco Lindberg
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=BYU (1988)
prev-clerk=McKaySCOTUS clerk
name=Mark S. Snyderman
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Chicago (1989)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Stuart A. Banner
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Stanford (1988)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Caroline M. Brown
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Harvard (1990)
prev-clerk=R. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Linda R. Helyar (Meyer)
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Berkeley (1987)
prev-clerk=Legge (N.D. Cal.) / NorrisSCOTUS clerk
name=Austin C. Schlick
started=1991
ended= 1992
school-yr=Yale (1990)
prev-clerk=MikvaSCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew D. Adler
started=1992
ended= 1993
school-yr=Yale (1991)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=E. Vaughn Dunnigan
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Columbia (1989)
prev-clerk=BrowningSCOTUS clerk
name=Amy F. Kett
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Harvard (1991)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Jeffrey A. Lamken
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Stanford (1990)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Katherine L. Adams
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Chicago (1992)
prev-clerk=BreyerSCOTUS clerk
name=James Forman
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Yale (1992)
prev-clerk=NorrisSCOTUS clerk
name=Mark A. Perry
started=1993
ended= 1994
school-yr=Chicago (1991)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Eugene Volokh
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=UCLA (1992)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Viet D. Dinh
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Harvard (1993)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Elizabeth L. Earle (Beske)
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Columbia (1993)
prev-clerk=WaldSCOTUS clerk
name=David G. Ellen
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Harvard (1992)
prev-clerk=BreyerSCOTUS clerk
name=David C. Kravitz
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Michigan (1993)
prev-clerk=BreyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Sean W. Gallagher
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Michigan (1994)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Gretchen C. Rubin
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Yale (1994)
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=Julia B. Shelton (Ambrose)
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Vanderbilt (1994)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Simon A. Steel
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Chicago (1990)
prev-clerk=BreyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Rebecca A. Beynon
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Texas (1994)
prev-clerk=RandolphSCOTUS clerk
name=Brian M. Hoffstadt
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=UCLA (1995)
prev-clerk=HallSCOTUS clerk
name=William J. Nardini
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Yale (1994)
prev-clerk=Cabranes/CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Patricia L. Small (Bellia)
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Yale (1995)
prev-clerk=CabranesSCOTUS clerk
name=Lisa Kern Griffin
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Stanford (1996)
prev-clerk=D. W. NelsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Srikanth Srinivasan
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Stanford (1995)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew F. Stowe
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Harvard (1996)
prev-clerk=LuttigSCOTUS clerk
name=Silvija A. Strikis
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Georgetown (1995)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Sandra G. Glover
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Chicago (1997)
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Oona A. Hathaway
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Yale (1997)
prev-clerk=WaldSCOTUS clerk
name=Traci L. Jones (Lovitt)
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Duke (1997)
prev-clerk=WinterSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael A. Scodro
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Yale (1996)
prev-clerk=CabranesSCOTUS clerk
name=Leslie A. Hakala
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Yale (1997)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Bradley W. Joondeph
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Stanford (1994)
prev-clerk=TachaSCOTUS clerk
name=Noah A. Levine
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Columbia (1997)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Shirley D. Woodward
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Georgetown (1998)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard A. Bierschbach
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Michigan (1997)
prev-clerk=RandolphSCOTUS clerk
name=Jennifer M. Mason
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=NYU (1998)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Tamarra D. Matthews
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Yale (1998)
prev-clerk=RogersSCOTUS clerk
name=Stanley J. Panikowski
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=UVA (1999)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Carolyn Frantz
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Michigan (2000)
prev-clerk=TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=Michelle T. Friedland
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Stanford (2000)
prev-clerk=TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=Jeremy Gaston
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Texas (1999)
prev-clerk=HigginbothamSCOTUS clerk
name=Anup Malani
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Chicago (2000)
prev-clerk=S. WilliamsSCOTUS clerk
name=Emily J. Henn
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Georgetown (1999)
prev-clerk=NiemeyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Justin A. Nelson
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Columbia (2000)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Allyson P. Newton
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Chicago (2000)
prev-clerk=WienerSCOTUS clerk
name=Cristina M. Rodriguez
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Yale (2000)
prev-clerk=TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=Janet R. Carter
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=NYU (2001)
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Sean C. Grimsley
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Michigan (2000)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=RonNell A. Jones
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=OSU (2000)
prev-clerk=W. FletcherSCOTUS clerk
name=Sambhav N. Sankar
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Berkeley (2000)
prev-clerk=W. Fletcher / Pollak (E.D. Pa.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Joel C. Beauvais
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=NYU (2002)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Theane D. Evangelis
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=NYU (2003)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Tali F. Farhadian
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Yale (2003)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Joshua Klein
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Stanford (2002)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Tali F. Farhadian
started=2005
ended=January 31, 2006
school-yr=Yale (2003)
prev-clerk=Garland/O'ConnorSCOTUS clerk
name=Benjamin J. Horwich
started=2005
ended=January 31, 2006
school-yr=Stanford (2003)
prev-clerk=Becker / V. Walker (N.D. Cal.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Amy N. Kapczynski
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Yale (2003)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Sasha Volokh
started=2005
ended=January 31, 2006
school-yr=Harvard (2004)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Justin Driver
started=2006
ended=
school-yr=Harvard (2004)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Heidi Bond
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Michigan (2006)
prev-clerk=Kozinski

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justice=Samuel Alito
begin=January 31,2006
end=presentSCOTUS clerk
name=Adam G. Ciongoli
started=February, 2006
ended=July, 2006
school-yr=Georgetown (1995)
prev-clerk=AlitoSCOTUS clerk
name=Benjamin J. Horwich
started=January 31, 2006
ended=July, 2006
school-yr=Stanford (2003)
prev-clerk=Becker / V. Walker (N.D. Cal.) / O'ConnorSCOTUS clerk
name=Hannah Clayson Smith
started=February, 2006
ended= July, 2006
school-yr=BYU (2001)
prev-clerk=Alito/ThomasSCOTUS clerk
name=Sasha Volokh
started=January 31,2006
ended=July, 2006
school-yr=Harvard (2004)
prev-clerk=Kozinski/O'ConnorSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael S. Lee
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=BYU (1997)
prev-clerk=Benson/AlitoSCOTUS clerk
name=Christopher J. Paolella
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Harvard (1999)
prev-clerk=AlitoSCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew A. Schwartz
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Columbia (2003)
prev-clerk=AlitoSCOTUS clerk
name=Gordon D. Todd
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=UVA (2000)
prev-clerk=BeamSCOTUS clerk
name=James Hunter
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2004)
prev-clerk=AlitoSCOTUS clerk
name=Geoffrey J. Michael
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2000)
prev-clerk=AlitoSCOTUS clerk
name=David H. Moore
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=BYU (1996)
prev-clerk=AlitoSCOTUS clerk
name=Jessica Phillips
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Northwestern (2006)
prev-clerk=FlaumSCOTUS clerk
name=Dana R. Irwin
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2002)
prev-clerk=SciricaSCOTUS clerk
name=Jack L. White
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Pepperdine (2003)
prev-clerk=Alito

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