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Neomi Rao , Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , clerked for Justice
Clarence Thomas during the 2001 term.
Law clerks have assisted the justices of the
United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice
Horace Gray in 1882.
[1] Each justice is permitted to have between three and four law clerks per Court term. Most persons serving in this capacity are recent
law school graduates (and typically graduated at the top of their class).
[2] Among their many functions, clerks do legal research that assists justices in deciding what cases to accept and what questions to ask during oral arguments, prepare
memoranda , and draft
orders and
opinions .
[3] After retiring from the Court, a justice may continue to employ a law clerk, who may be assigned to provide additional assistance to an active justice or may assist the retired justice when sitting by designation with a lower court.
Table of law clerks
The following is a table of law clerks serving the
associate justice holding Supreme Court seat 10 (the Court's tenth associate justice seat by order of creation), which was established on April 10, 1869 by the
41st Congress through the
Judiciary Act of 1869 (16
Stat.
44 ).
[4]
[a] This seat is currently occupied by Justice
Clarence Thomas .
Seat 10 associate justices and law clerks
Joseph P. Bradley
March 23, 1870 –
George Shiras Jr.
October 10, 1892 –
William R. Day
March 2, 1903 –
Pierce Butler
January 2, 1923 –
Frank Murphy
February 5, 1940 –
Tom C. Clark
August 24, 1949 –
Clerk
Started
Finished
School (year)
Previous clerkship
Thomas Lawrence Tolan Jr.
1949
1950
Michigan (1948)
Murphy
Percy D. Williams, Jr.
1949
1951
Harvard (1946)
Donald F. Turner
1950
1951
Yale (1950)
Stuart W. Thayer
1951
1952
Yale (1951)
none
C. Richard Walker
1951
1952
Chicago (1950)
Vester T. Hughes
1952
1952 (drafted,
Korean War )
Harvard (1952)
none
Frederick M. Rowe
1952
1953
Yale (1952)
none
Bernard Weisberg
1952
1953
Chicago (1952)
Ellis H. McKay
1953
1954
Penn (1953)
Ernest Rubenstein
1953
1954
Yale (1953)
none
William Kenneth Jones
1954
1955
Columbia (1954)
none
John Kaplan
1954
1955
Harvard (1954)
none
Robert W. Hamilton
1955
1956
Chicago (1955)
none
John E. Nolan
1955
1956
Georgetown (1955)
none
John J. Crown
1956
1957
Northwestern (1956)
Harry L. Hobson
1956
1957
NYU (1956)
Robert P. Gorman
1957
1958
Notre Dame (1957)
William D. Powell Jr.
1957
1958
SMU (1957)
none
Charles H. Phillips
1958
1959
USC (1958)
Max O. Truitt, Jr.
1958
1959
Yale (1958)
Larry E. Temple
1959
1960
Texas (1959)
none
Thomas Cecil Wray, Jr.
1959
1960
Yale (1959)
none
Carl L. Estes, II
1960
1961
Texas (1960)
Malachy T. Mahon
1960
1961
Fordham (1960)
James E. Knox
1961
1962
Drake (LLB 1961) /
Houston (JD 1964)
Burk W. Mathes, Jr.
1961
1962
Harvard (1961)
Raymond L. Brown
1962
1963
Mississippi (1962)
none
Martin J. Flynn
1962
1963
Indiana (1962)
James L. McHugh, Jr.
1963
1964
Villanova (1963)
James H. Pipkin, Jr.
1963
1964
Harvard (1963)
Michael William Maupin
1964
1965
Virginia (1964)
Shannon H. Ratliff
1964
1965
Texas (1964)
none
Lee A. Freeman, Jr.
1965
1966
Harvard (1965)
none
Charles D. Reed
1965
1966
Texas A&M (1965)
Marshall Groce
1966
1967
St. Mary's (1966)
Stuart Philip Ross
1966
1967
GW (1966)
none
J. Larry Nichols (shared with
Warren )
1967
1968
Michigan (1967)
Jerry W. Snider (shared with
Burger )
1969
1970
Houston (1969)
Theodore L. Garrett (shared with
Burger )
1970
1971
Columbia (1968)
J. J. Smith (
2d Cir. )
C. Taylor Ashworth (shared with
Brennan )
1971
1972
Texas (1971)
Thomas Wilson Reavley (shared with
Burger ,
Blackmun ,
Powell )
1972
1973
Harvard (1972)
Stafford Hutchinson
1973
1974
Texas (1971)
William M. Hannay
1974
1975
Georgetown (1975)
Bright (
8th Cir. )
Thomas D. Corrigan
1975
1976
Case Western (1975)
J. Thomas Marten
1976
1977
Washburn (1976)
Thurgood Marshall
October 2, 1967 –
Clarence Thomas
October 23, 1991 –
Notes
References
^ Peppers, Todd C. (2006).
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^
"Landmark Legislation: Circuit Judgeships" . Washington, D.C.: Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved December 22, 2018 .
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"Landmark Legislation: Reorganization of the Judicial Circuits" . Washington, D.C.: Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved December 22, 2018 .
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"Justices 1789 to Present" . supremecourt.gov . Washington, D.C.: Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved December 25, 2018 .
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https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2144&context=law_faculty_scholarship
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https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1030&context=newsreleases
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"Law Review Honors Its First Distinguished Alumni" (PDF) . Minnesota Law Review. Fall 2005. Archived from
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"News Letter, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Spring 1967)" . College of William and Mary Law School. Spring 1967. Retrieved September 25, 2014 .
Additional sources
Baier, Paul R. (1973). "The Law Clerks: Profile of an Institution," Vanderbilt L. Rev. 26: 1125–77.
"Finding Aid to Thurgood Marshall Papers,"
Library of Congress , list of clerks.
"Georgia Law Alumni Who Have Clerked for a U.S. Supreme Court Justice,"
Advocate , Spring/Summer 2004 (listing 6 names).
Judicial Clerkship Handbook,
USC Gould Law School , 2013-2014, p. 33, Appendix B.
"List of law clerks,"
The Papers of Justice Tom C. Clark , Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas Law School. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
Newland, Charles A. (June 1961). "Personal Assistants to the Supreme Court Justices: The Law Clerks," Oregon L. Rev. 40: 306–07.
News of Supreme Court clerks . University of Virginia Law School, list of clerks, 2004-2018.
University of Michigan clerks to the Supreme Court, 1991-2017 , University of Michigan Law School Web site (2016). Retrieved September 20, 2016.
Ward, Artemus and David L. Weiden (2006). Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court . New York, NY: New York University Press.
ISBN
978-0814794203 ,
ISBN
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