List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice)

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 Chief Justice.

* 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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justice=Edward Douglass White
begin=December 19, 1910
end=May 19, 1921SCOTUS clerk
name=John J. Byrne
started=1918
ended=1921
school-yr=
prev-clerk=

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justice=William Howard Taft
begin=July 11, 1921
end=February 3, 1930SCOTUS clerk
name=John J. Byrne
started=1921
ended=1924
school-yr=
prev-clerk=E. WhiteSCOTUS clerk
name=Wendell Mischler
started=1921
ended=1930
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=C. Dickerman Williams
started=1924
ended=1925
school-yr=Yale (1924)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Reynolds Robertson
started=1929
ended=1930
school-yr=
prev-clerk=

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justice=Charles Evans Hughes
begin=February 24, 1930
end=June 30, 1941SCOTUS clerk
name=Wendell Mischler
started=1930
ended=1930
school-yr=
prev-clerk=TaftSCOTUS clerk
name=Reynolds Robertson
started=1930
ended=1934
school-yr=
prev-clerk=Taft

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justice=Harlan Fiske Stone
begin=July 3, 1941
end=April 22, 1946SCOTUS clerk
name=Bennett Boskey
started=1941
ended=1943
school-yr=Harvard (1939)
prev-clerk=Hand/ReedSCOTUS clerk
name=Eugene H. Nickerson
started=1944
ended=April 1946
school-yr=Columbia (1943)
prev-clerk=A. Hand

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justice=Fred M. Vinson
begin=June 24, 1946
end=September 8, 1953SCOTUS clerk
name=Byron White
started=1946
ended=1947
school-yr=Yale (1946)
prev-clerk=none

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justice=Earl Warren
begin=October 5, 1953
end=June 23, 1969SCOTUS clerk
name=Curtis R. Reitz
started=1956
ended=1957
school-yr=Penn (1956)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Jon O. Newman
started=1957
ended=1958
school-yr=Yale (1956)
prev-clerk=WashingtonSCOTUS clerk
name=Dallin H. Oaks
started=1957
ended=1958
school-yr=Chicago (1957)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Jesse Choper
started=1960
ended=1961
school-yr=Penn (1960)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Peter R. Taft
started=1962
ended=1963
school-yr=Yale (1961)
prev-clerk=RivesSCOTUS clerk
name=Francis X. Beytagh
started=1963
ended=1964
school-yr=Michigan (1963)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Peter Low
started=1963
ended=1964
school-yr=UVA (1963)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=John Hart Ely
started=1964
ended=1965
school-yr=Yale (1963)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=James Hale
started=1965
ended=1966
school-yr=Minnesota (1965)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=C. Boyden Gray
started=1968
ended=1969
school-yr=UNC (1968)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Earl C. Dudley, Jr.
started=1968
ended=1969
school-yr=UVA (1963)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Scott Bice
started=1968
ended=1969
school-yr=USC (1968)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=John W. Keker
started=1970
ended=1971
school-yr=Yale (1970)
prev-clerk=none

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justice=Warren E. Burger
begin=June 23, 1969
end=September 26, 1986SCOTUS clerk
name=Harry A. Rissetto
started=1969
ended=1970
school-yr=Georgetown (1968)
prev-clerk=Sirica (D.D.C.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Lee Bollinger
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=Columbia (1971)
prev-clerk=FeinbergSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel R. Coquillette
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=Harvard (1971)
prev-clerk=Braucher (Mass.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Jack M. Weiss
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=Harvard (1971)
prev-clerk=WisdomSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephen B. Burbank
started=1974
ended=1975
school-yr=Harvard (1973)
prev-clerk=Braucher (Mass.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Kenneth Starr
started=1975
ended=1977
school-yr=Duke (1973)
prev-clerk=DyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Alex Kozinski
started=1976
ended=1977
school-yr=UCLA (1975)
prev-clerk=KennedySCOTUS clerk
name=Monte Stewart
started=1977
ended=1978
school-yr=BYU (1976)
prev-clerk=WallaceSCOTUS clerk
name=Stewart Jay
started=1977
ended=1978
school-yr=Harvard (1976)
prev-clerk= ??? (D.D.C.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Paul L. Shechtman
started=1979
ended=1980
school-yr=Harvard (1979)
prev-clerk=Pollak (E.D. Pa.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Michael J. Wahoske
started=1979
ended=1980
school-yr=Notre Dame (1979)
prev-clerk=????SCOTUS clerk
name=John C. Ale
started=1980
ended=1981
school-yr=UVA (1979)
prev-clerk=TammSCOTUS clerk
name=John Coleman
started=1980
ended=1981
school-yr=Chicago (1979)SCOTUS clerk
name=John Sexton
started=1980
ended=1981
school-yr=Harvard (1979)
prev-clerk=Leventhal/BazelonSCOTUS clerk
name=James Volling
started=1980
ended=1981
school-yr=GWU (1979)
prev-clerk=RobbSCOTUS clerk
name=Judith A. McMorrow
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Notre Dame (1980)
prev-clerk=MerrittSCOTUS clerk
name=Rochelle C. Dreyfuss
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=Columbia (1981)
prev-clerk=FeinbergSCOTUS clerk
name=Mark B. Helm
started=1983
ended=1984
school-yr=Harvard (1982)
prev-clerk=McGowanSCOTUS clerk
name=Rebecca Hurley
started=1983
ended=1984
school-yr=SMU (1982)
prev-clerk=GoldbergSCOTUS clerk
name=Peter M. Lieb
started=1983
ended=1984
school-yr=Michigan (????)
prev-clerk=KearseSCOTUS clerk
name=J. Michael Luttig
started=1983
ended=1984
school-yr=UVA (1981)
prev-clerk=ScaliaSCOTUS clerk
name=Ray W. Campbell
started=1984
ended=1985
school-yr=UVA (1983)
prev-clerk=WilkeySCOTUS clerk
name=Michael R. Lazerwitz
started=1984
ended=1985
school-yr=Chicago (1983)
prev-clerk=FriendlySCOTUS clerk
name=Wallace K. Lightsey
started=1984
ended=1985
school-yr=Harvard (1983)
prev-clerk=WisdomSCOTUS clerk
name=Paul G. Cassell
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=Stanford (1984)
prev-clerk=ScaliaSCOTUS clerk
name=Timothy Flanigan
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=UVA (1981)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew M. Neumeier
started=1985
ended=1986
school-yr=Harvard (1984)
prev-clerk=WallaceSCOTUS clerk
name=Gene C. Schaerr (shared with Scalia)
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=Yale (1985)
prev-clerk=Starr| SCOTUS clerk
name=Bruce P. Brown
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=Georgia (1984)
prev-clerk=TammSCOTUS clerk
name=Gregory S. Dovel (shared with Scalia)
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=Harvard (1986)
prev-clerk=WallaceSCOTUS clerk
name=William K. Kelley (shared with Scalia)
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Harvard (1987)
prev-clerk=StarrSCOTUS clerk
name=Von G. Keetch (shared with Scalia)
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=BYU (1987)
prev-clerk=PrattSCOTUS clerk
name=John E. Barry (shared with Kennedy)
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Columbia (1985)
prev-clerk=CampbellSCOTUS clerk
name=Karl M. Tilleman (shared with Thomas)
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=BYU (1990)
prev-clerk=NoonanSCOTUS clerk
name=James E. Gauch (shared with Thomas)
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Chicago (1989)
prev-clerk=D. A. NelsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Eric A. Grant (shared with Thomas)
started=1994
ended= 1995
school-yr=Berkeley (1990)
prev-clerk=E. Jones

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justice=William Rehnquist
begin=September 26, 1986
end=September 3, 2005SCOTUS clerk
name=David G. Leitch
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=UVA (1985)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=William R. Lindsay
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=Berkeley (1985)
prev-clerk=McGowanSCOTUS clerk
name=Laura E. Little
started=1986
ended=1987
school-yr=Temple (1985)
prev-clerk=HunterSCOTUS clerk
name=J. Anthony Downs
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=Chicago (1986)
prev-clerk=OakesSCOTUS clerk
name=R. Charles Miller
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=Penn (1985)
prev-clerk=RobinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=William L. Taylor
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=Yale (1986)
prev-clerk=WisdomSCOTUS clerk
name=Lindley J. Brenza
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Chicago (1987)
prev-clerk=EasterbrookSCOTUS clerk
name=Robert J. Giuffra
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Yale (1987)
prev-clerk=WinterSCOTUS clerk
name=Melissa L. Saunders
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=UVA (1987)
prev-clerk=PhillipsSCOTUS clerk
name=Steven M. Colloton
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Yale (1988)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Barry P. McDonald
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=Northwestern (1988)
prev-clerk=LoganSCOTUS clerk
name=James K. Vines
started=1989
ended=1990
school-yr=W&L (1988)
prev-clerk=Merhige (E.D. Va.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Jeffrey L. Bleich
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Berkeley (1989)
prev-clerk=MikvaSCOTUS clerk
name=Bruce R. Braun
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=UVA (1989)
prev-clerk=FlaumSCOTUS clerk
name=Monica J. Wahl (Shaffer)
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Chicago (????)
prev-clerk=HigginbothamSCOTUS clerk
name=Audrey J. Anderson
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Michigan (1990)
prev-clerk=Greene (D.D.C.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Eric F. Scheuermann
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Harvard (1990)
prev-clerk=WallaceSCOTUS clerk
name=Ronald J. Tenpas
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=UVA (1990)
prev-clerk=Pollak (E.D. Pa.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Gregory G. Garre
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=GW (1991)
prev-clerk=SciricaSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard C. Pepperman II
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Penn (1990)
prev-clerk=BeckerSCOTUS clerk
name=Celestine J. Richards (McConville)
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Georgetown (1991)
prev-clerk=Hall/Nugent (N.D. Ohio)SCOTUS clerk
name=Mariana L. Cox
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Duke (????)
prev-clerk=Tilley (M.D.N.C.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Brian M. Morris
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Stanford (1992)
prev-clerk=NoonanSCOTUS clerk
name=James E. Ryan
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=UVA (1992)
prev-clerk=WallaceSCOTUS clerk
name=Jody A. Manier (Kris)
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Chicago (1993)
prev-clerk=S. WilliamsSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephen M. Sargent
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=BYU (1993)
prev-clerk=TachaSCOTUS clerk
name=Paul J. Zidlicky
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=GW (1993)
prev-clerk=MagillSCOTUS clerk
name=Eric R. Claeys
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=USC (1994)
prev-clerk=BrunettiSCOTUS clerk
name=Shawn F. Fagan
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Harvard (1994)
prev-clerk=D. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Courtney Simmons (Elwood)
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Yale (1994)
prev-clerk=LuttigSCOTUS clerk
name=R. Ted Cruz
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Harvard (1995)
prev-clerk=LuttigSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard W. Garnett
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Yale (1995)
prev-clerk=R. ArnoldSCOTUS clerk
name=David H. Hoffman
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Chicago (1995)
prev-clerk=JacobsSCOTUS clerk
name=John P. Kelsh
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Northwestern (1996)
prev-clerk=SentelleSCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew T. Martens
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=UNC (1996)
prev-clerk=SentelleSCOTUS clerk
name=Sarah O. Newland (Jorgensen)
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Harvard (1995)
prev-clerk=SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Christopher P. Bowers
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Chicago (1997)
prev-clerk=RymerSCOTUS clerk
name=Neil M. Richards
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=UVA (1997)
prev-clerk=NiemeyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Robert G. Schaffer
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Duke (1996)
prev-clerk=TachaSCOTUS clerk
name=Kevin R. Boyle
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Arizona (1997)
prev-clerk=BrunettiSCOTUS clerk
name=Jay T. Jorgensen
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=BYU (1997)
prev-clerk=AlitoSCOTUS clerk
name=Rosemarie K. Nixon (Blase)
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Notre Dame (1998)
prev-clerk=LokenSCOTUS clerk
name=Luke A. Sobota
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Chicago (1999)
prev-clerk=RymerSCOTUS clerk
name=Mark T. Stancil
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=UVA (1999)
prev-clerk=EbelSCOTUS clerk
name=Jocelyn E. Strauber
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Duke (1998)
prev-clerk=RandolphSCOTUS clerk
name=Gregg J. Costa
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Texas (1999)
prev-clerk=RandolphSCOTUS clerk
name=Heidi C. Doerhoff
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Missouri (2000)
prev-clerk=GibsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Brett H. McGurk
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Columbia (1999)
prev-clerk=Jacobs/Lynch (S.D.N.Y.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Leah O. Brannon
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Harvard (1999)
prev-clerk=D. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Andrew R. DeVooght
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Illinois (2000)
prev-clerk=KanneSCOTUS clerk
name=Robert K. Hur
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Stanford (2001)
prev-clerk=KozinskiSCOTUS clerk
name=Leon F. DeJulius
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Notre Dame (2002)
prev-clerk=O'ScannlainSCOTUS clerk
name=Courtney C. Gilligan
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=GW (2002)
prev-clerk=MagillSCOTUS clerk
name=Aaron M. Streett
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Texas (2002)
prev-clerk=SentelleSCOTUS clerk
name=Jeffrey L. Oldham
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Northwestern (2003)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Julius N. Richardson
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Chicago (2003)
prev-clerk=PosnerSCOTUS clerk
name=Ryan A. Shores
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=UVA (2003)
prev-clerk=RippleSCOTUS clerk
name=Mark W. Mosier
started=2005
ended=September 3, 2005
school-yr=Chicago (2004)
prev-clerk=TachaSCOTUS clerk
name=Ann E. O'Connell
started=2005
ended=September 3, 2005
school-yr=GW (2004)
prev-clerk=MagillSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael S. Passaportis
started=2005
ended=September 3, 2005
school-yr=UVA (2004)
prev-clerk=Wilkinson

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justice=John Glover Roberts, Jr.
begin=September 29, 2005
end=presentSCOTUS clerk
name=Dan Kearney
started=September 29,2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Yale (2004)
prev-clerk=RobertsSCOTUS clerk
name=Mark W. Mosier
started=September 29, 2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Chicago (2004)
prev-clerk=Tacha/RehnquistSCOTUS clerk
name=Ann E. O'Connell
started=September 29, 2005
ended=2006
school-yr=GW (2004)
prev-clerk=Magill/RehnquistSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael S. Passaportis
started=September 29, 2005
ended=2006
school-yr=UVA (2004)
prev-clerk=Wilkinson/RehnquistSCOTUS clerk
name=Kosta Stojilkovic
started=September 29,2005
ended=2006
school-yr=UVA (2004)
prev-clerk=RobertsSCOTUS clerk
name=Felicia H. Ellsworth
started=2006
ended= 2007
school-yr=Chicago (2005)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=George W. Hicks
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Harvard (2005)
prev-clerk=BrownSCOTUS clerk
name=Keenan Kmiec
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Berkeley (2004)
prev-clerk=Alito/SentelleSCOTUS clerk
name=Paul Nathanson
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Harvard (2004)
prev-clerk=Niemeyer/SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Jason Burnette
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Georgia (2006)
prev-clerk=AndersonSCOTUS clerk
name=Josh Hawley
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2006)
prev-clerk=McConnellSCOTUS clerk
name=Anton Metlitsky
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Harvard (2005)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Erin Morrow
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2005)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=William Baude
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Yale (2007)
prev-clerk=McConnellSCOTUS clerk
name=Jeffrey Harris
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Harvard (2006)
prev-clerk=Sentelle/SilbermanSCOTUS clerk
name=Erin Murphy
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=Georgetown (2006)
prev-clerk=SykesSCOTUS clerk
name=Porter Wilkinson
started=2008
ended=
school-yr=UVA (2007)
prev-clerk=Kavanaugh

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