List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 1)

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 1.

* 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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Horace Harmon Lurton
January 3, 1910 – July 12, 1914

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justice=James Clark McReynolds
begin=October 12, 1914
end=January 31,1941SCOTUS clerk
name=Maurice J. Mahoney
started=1927
ended=1929
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=Maurice J. Mahoney
started=1931
ended=1934
school-yr=
prev-clerk=SCOTUS clerk
name=John Frush Knox
started=1936
ended=1937
school-yr=Harvard (1936)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=John T. McHale
started=1937
ended=1938
school-yr=
prev-clerk=Van Devanter

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James F. Byrnes
July 8, 1941 – October 3, 1942

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justice=Wiley Blount Rutledge
begin=February 15, 1943
end=September 10,1949SCOTUS clerk
name=Harry L. Shniderman
started=1944
ended=1945SCOTUS clerk
name=John Paul Stevens
started=1947
ended=1948
school-yr=Northwestern (1947)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Louis H. Pollak
started=1948
ended=1949
school-yr=Yale (1948)
prev-clerk=none

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justice=Sherman Minton
begin=October 12, 1949
end=October 15,1956SCOTUS clerk
name=Abner J. Mikva
started=1951
ended=1952
school-yr=Chicago (1951)
prev-clerk=none

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justice=William Brennan
begin=October 16, 1956
end=July 20, 1990SCOTUS clerk
name=Richard S. Arnold
started=1960
ended=1961
school-yr=Harvard (1960)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Frank I. Michelman
started=1961
ended=1962
school-yr=Harvard (1960)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard Posner
started=1962
ended=1963
school-yr=Harvard (1962)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Stephen R. Barnett
started=1963
ended=1964
school-yr=Harvard (1962)
prev-clerk=FriendlySCOTUS clerk
name=S. Paul Posner
started=1964
ended=1965
school-yr=Harvard (1964)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Owen M. Fiss
started=1965
ended=1966
school-yr=Harvard (1964)
prev-clerk=MarshallSCOTUS clerk
name=Peter L. Strauss
started=1965
ended=1966
school-yr=Yale (1964)
prev-clerk=BazelonSCOTUS clerk
name=Raymond C. Fisher
started=1967
ended=1968
school-yr=Stanford (1966)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=Robert M. Weinberg
started=1968
ended=1969
school-yr=Michigan (1968)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard M. Cooper
started=1969
ended=1970
school-yr=Harvard (1969)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=W. Taylor Reveley, III
started=1969
ended=1970
school-yr=UVA (1968)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Loftus E. Becker
started=1970
ended=1971
school-yr=Penn (1969)
prev-clerk=BazelonSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard Cotton
started=1970
ended=1971
school-yr=Yale (1969)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=C. Taylor Ashworth
started=1971
ended=1972SCOTUS clerk
name=Geoffrey R. Stone
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=Chicago (1971)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=William J. Maledon
started=1972
ended=1973
school-yr=Notre Dame (1972)
prev-clerk=noneSCOTUS clerk
name=Lawrence B. Pedowitz
started=1973
ended=1974
school-yr=NYU (1972)
prev-clerk=FriendlySCOTUS clerk
name=Marsha L. Berzon
started=1974
ended=1975
school-yr=Berkeley (1973)
prev-clerk=BrowningSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard J. Bronstein
started=1975
ended=1976
school-yr=Chicago (1974)
prev-clerk=RobinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Alan B. Sternstein
started=1975
ended=1976
school-yr=Arizona (1975)
prev-clerk=DouglasSCOTUS clerk
name=William A. Fletcher
started=1976
ended=1977
school-yr=Yale (1975)
prev-clerk=WeigelSCOTUS clerk
name=Stuart J. Baskin
started=1976
ended=1977
school-yr=Stanford (1975)
prev-clerk=MansfieldSCOTUS clerk
name=Gerard E. Lynch
started=1976
ended=1977
school-yr=Columbia (1975)
prev-clerk=FeinbergSCOTUS clerk
name=Richard M. Carpenter
started=1977
ended=1978
school-yr=Boston (1975)
prev-clerk=CoffinSCOTUS clerk
name=Merrick B. Garland
started=1978
ended=1979
school-yr=Harvard (1977)
prev-clerk=FriendlySCOTUS clerk
name=Robert C. Post
started=1978
ended=1979
school-yr=Yale (1977)
prev-clerk=BazelonSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael Chertoff
started=1979
ended=1980
school-yr=Harvard (1978)
prev-clerk=GurfeinSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael W. McConnell
started=1980
ended=1981
school-yr=Chicago (1979)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=Elliot Polebaum
started=1980
ended=1981
school-yr=NYU (1977)
prev-clerk=OakesSCOTUS clerk
name=Mark S. Campisano
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Yale (1980)
prev-clerk=FeinbergSCOTUS clerk
name=Clifton S. Elgarten
started=1981
ended=1982
school-yr=Cardozo (1979)
prev-clerk=Pollak (E.D. Pa.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Perry Dane
started=1982
ended=1983
school-yr=Yale (1981)
prev-clerk=BazelonSCOTUS clerk
name=Bruce R. Lerner
started=1983
ended=1984
school-yr=Penn (1982)
prev-clerk=MikvaSCOTUS clerk
name=James Feldman
started=1984
ended= 1985
school-yr=Harvard (1983)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=Donald B. Verrilli
started=1984
ended= 1985
school-yr=Columbia (1983)
prev-clerk=WrightSCOTUS clerk
name=Charles G. Curtis, Jr.
started=1984
ended= 1985
school-yr=Chicago (1982)
prev-clerk=BazelonSCOTUS clerk
name=Jay M. Fujitani
started=1985
ended= 1986
school-yr=Berkeley (1984)
prev-clerk=WeigelSCOTUS clerk
name=Dean M. Hashimoto
started=1985
ended= 1986
school-yr=Yale (1984)
prev-clerk=BazelonSCOTUS clerk
name=Larry D. Kramer
started=1985
ended= 1986
school-yr=Chicago (1984)
prev-clerk=FriendlySCOTUS clerk
name=Mark E. Haddad
started=1986
ended= 1987
school-yr=Yale (1985)
prev-clerk=Pollak (E.D. Pa.)SCOTUS clerk
name=Einer R. Elhauge
started=1987
ended= 1988
school-yr=Harvard (1986)
prev-clerk=NorrisSCOTUS clerk
name=Mark H. Epstein
started=1987
ended= 1988
school-yr=Berkeley (1985)
prev-clerk=Weigel/PanelliSCOTUS clerk
name=E. Joshua Rosenkranz
started=1987
ended=1988
school-yr=Georgetown (1986)
prev-clerk=Scalia/S. WilliamsSCOTUS clerk
name=John M. West
started=1988
ended=1989
school-yr=Michigan (1987)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Hugh W. Baxter
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Stanford (1990)
prev-clerk=R. B. Ginsburg

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justice=David Souter
begin=October 9, 1990
end=presentSCOTUS clerk
name=Meir Feder
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Harvard (1989)
prev-clerk=NorrisSCOTUS clerk
name=Paul E. Salamanca
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Boston College (1989)
prev-clerk=SouterSCOTUS clerk
name=Peter J. Spiro
started=1990
ended=1991
school-yr=Virginia (1987)
prev-clerk=S. WilliamsSCOTUS clerk
name=William D. Araiza
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Yale (1990)
prev-clerk=NorrisSCOTUS clerk
name=Henk Brands
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Columbia (1989)
prev-clerk=BreyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Jonathan E. Nuechterlein
started=1991
ended=1992
school-yr=Yale (1990)
prev-clerk=S. WilliamsSCOTUS clerk
name=Robert Brauneis
started=1992
ended=1993
school-yr=Harvard (1989)
prev-clerk=BreyerSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael S. Barr
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Yale (1992)
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=Alison M. Tucher
started=1993
ended=1994
school-yr=Stanford (1992)
prev-clerk=NorrisSCOTUS clerk
name=H. Kent Greenfield
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Chicago (1992)
prev-clerk=CampbellSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel Halberstam
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Yale (1993)
prev-clerk=WaldSCOTUS clerk
name=Riyaz Kanji
started=1994
ended=1995
school-yr=Yale (1991)
prev-clerk=FletcherSCOTUS clerk
name=Stuart M. Benjamin
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Yale (1991)
prev-clerk=CanbySCOTUS clerk
name=Heather K. Gerken
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Michigan (1994)
prev-clerk=ReinhardtSCOTUS clerk
name=Craig Goldblatt
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Chicago (1993)
prev-clerk=CudahySCOTUS clerk
name=Ernest A. Young
started=1995
ended=1996
school-yr=Harvard (1993)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=William Hohengarten
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Yale (1994)
prev-clerk=NewmanSCOTUS clerk
name=Ellen D. Katz
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Yale (1994)
prev-clerk=RogersSCOTUS clerk
name=Tim Simeone
started=1996
ended=1997
school-yr=Chicago (1994)
prev-clerk=WaldSCOTUS clerk
name=Mary-Rose Papandrea
started=1997
ended=1998
school-yr=Chicago (1995)
prev-clerk=Koeltl (S.D.N.Y.) / D. GinsburgSCOTUS clerk
name=Jonathan G. Cedarbaum
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Yale (1996)
prev-clerk=TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=Noah Feldman
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Yale (1997)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Catherine M. Sharkey
started=1998
ended=1999
school-yr=Yale (1997)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Jay L. Koh
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Yale (1998)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Benjamin L. Liebman
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Harvard (1998)
prev-clerk=LynchSCOTUS clerk
name=Kermit Roosevelt
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Yale (1997)
prev-clerk=S. WilliamsSCOTUS clerk
name=Rebecca Tushnet
started=1999
ended=2000
school-yr=Yale (1998)
prev-clerk=BeckerSCOTUS clerk
name=Kevin C. Newsom
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Harvard (1997)
prev-clerk=O'ScannlainSCOTUS clerk
name=Kenneth A. Bamberger
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Harvard (1998)
prev-clerk=KearseSCOTUS clerk
name=Molly S. Van Houweling
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Harvard (1998)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew C. Waxman
started=2000
ended=2001
school-yr=Yale (1998)
prev-clerk=FlaumSCOTUS clerk
name=Benjamin Gruenstein
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Harvard (1999)
prev-clerk=S. WilliamsSCOTUS clerk
name=Thomas H. Lee
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Harvard (2000)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Ann M. Lipton
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=Harvard (2000)
prev-clerk=BeckerSCOTUS clerk
name=Monica W. Rothbaum
started=2001
ended=2002
school-yr=NYU (1999)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Mark C. Fleming
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Harvard (1997)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Jesse M. Furman
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Yale (1998)
prev-clerk=CabranesSCOTUS clerk
name=Derek T. Ho
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Harvard (2001)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Sarah L. Levine
started=2002
ended=2003
school-yr=Yale (2000)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Julian D. Mortenson
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Stanford (2002)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Samuel J. Rascoff
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Yale (2001)
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=Jeannie Suk
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Harvard (2002)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Gregory G. Rapawy
started=2003
ended=2004
school-yr=Harvard (2001)
prev-clerk=LynchSCOTUS clerk
name=Catherine M.A. Carroll
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Michigan (2002)
prev-clerk=EdwardsSCOTUS clerk
name=Matthew S. Hellman
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Harvard (2002)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Christine Van Aken
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=NYU (2002)
prev-clerk=LevalSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel S. Volchok
started=2004
ended=2005
school-yr=Harvard (2003)
prev-clerk=TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=Jeanne Fromer
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Harvard (2002)
prev-clerk=SackSCOTUS clerk
name=Meaghan McLaine
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Harvard (2004)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Jon D. Michaels
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=Yale (2003)
prev-clerk=CalabresiSCOTUS clerk
name=Allison Orr
started=2005
ended=2006
school-yr=UVA (2004)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Boris Bershteyn
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Yale (2004)
prev-clerk=CabranesSCOTUS clerk
name=David Han
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Harvard (2005)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Bryan Leach
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Yale (2005)
prev-clerk=CabranesSCOTUS clerk
name=Daniel Tenny
started=2006
ended=2007
school-yr=Michigan (2005)
prev-clerk=TatelSCOTUS clerk
name=Bert Huang
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Harvard (2003)
prev-clerk=BoudinSCOTUS clerk
name=Leslie Kendrick
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=UVA (2006)
prev-clerk=WilkinsonSCOTUS clerk
name=Michael Mongan
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Stanford (2006)
prev-clerk=GarlandSCOTUS clerk
name=Micah Smith
started=2007
ended=
school-yr=Harvard (2006)
prev-clerk=Calabresi

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