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

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Law clerks have assisted Supreme Court Justices in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882. 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 Chief Justice Rehnquist usually hired only three.

The following is an incomplete table of Supreme Court law clerks serving the Justice holding Seat 4.

This seat was established on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 1 Stat. 73.
Samuel Blatchford	April 3, 1882 – July 7, 1893
Edward Douglass White	March 12, 1894 – December 18, 1910
Willis Van Devanter January 3, 1911 – June 2, 1937	Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship Mahlon D. Kiefer 1914 1919 Mahlon D. Kiefer 1923 1924 Arthur J. Mattson 1924 1929 John T. McHale 1929 1937
Hugo Black August 19, 1937 – September 17, 1971	Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship Jerome A. Cooper 1937 1940 Harvard (1936) Marx Leva 1940 1941 Harvard Max Isenbergh 1941 1942 John Paul Frank 1942 1943 Wisconsin (1940) none Charles F. Luce 1943 1944 Yale (1942) none Louis F. Oberdorfer 1946 1947 Yale (1946) none William Joslin 1947 1948 Columbia (1947) none Truman M. Hobbs 1948 1949 Yale (1948) none Frank M. Wozencraft 1949 1950 Yale (1949) none George Treister 1950 1951 Yale (1949) P. Gibson (Cal.) Luther L. Hill, Jr. 1951 1952 Harvard (1950) none Neal P. Rutledge 1951 1952 Yale (1950) Fahy (D.C. Cir.) Charles A. Reich 1953 1954 Yale (1952) none David J. Vann 1953 1954 Alabama (1951) James W. H. Stewart 1954 1955 Washington & Lee (LL.B. 1952) Harvard (LL.M. 1954) Daniel J. Meador 1954 1955 Harvard (1954) George C. Freeman, Jr. 1956 1957 Yale (1956) David M. Clark 1957 1958 NYU (1956) Guido Calabresi 1958 1959 Yale (1958) none Nicholas Johnson 1959 1960 Texas (1956) John R. Brown (5th Cir.) John K. McNulty 1959 1960 Yale (1959) none Floyd F. Feeney 1961 1962 NYU (1960) none A. E. Dick Howard 1962 1964 Virginia (1961) none John G. Kester 1963 1965 Harvard (1963) none Drayton Nabers, Jr. 1965 1966 Yale (1965) none John W. Vardaman 1965 1966 Harvard (1965) none Margaret J. Corcoran 1966 1967 Harvard Stephen D. Susman 1966 1967 Texas (1965) John R. Brown (5th Cir.) Joseph Price 1967 1968 Harvard (1964) none Walter E. Dellinger, III 1968 1969 Yale (1966) none Kenneth C. Bass, III 1969 1970 Yale none John M. Harmon 1970 1971 Duke (1969) G. Bell (5th Cir.) Larry A. Hammond 1971 September 17, 1971 Texas (1970) McGowan (D.C. Cir.) Covert E. Parnell III 1971 September 17, 1971 Harvard (1970) Van Dusen (3rd Cir.)
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. January 7, 1972 – June 26, 1987	Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship Hamilton P. Fox III January 7, 1972 July 1972 Yale (1970) Coffin (1st Cir.) Larry A. Hammond January 7, 1972 July 1972 Texas (1970) Black / McGowan (D.C. Cir.) Covert E. Parnell III January 7, 1972 July 1972 Harvard (1970) Black J. Harvie Wilkinson III January 7, 1972 July 1972 Virginia (1972) none Larry A. Hammond 1972 1973 Texas (1970) Powell / Black / McGowan (D.C. Cir.) William C. Kelly, Jr. 1972 1973 Yale (1971) Coffin (1st Cir.) J. Harvie Wilkinson III 1972 1973 Virginia (1972) Powell John J. Buckley, Jr. 1973 1974 Chicago (1972) Wisdom (5th Cir.) John C. Jeffries, Jr. 1973 1974 Virginia (1973) none Jack B. Owens 1973 1974 Stanford (1970) David R. Boyd 1974 1975 Virginia (1973) McGowan (D.C. Cir.) Julia Penny Clark 1974 1975 Texas (1973) Craven (4th Cir.) Joel I. Klein 1974 1975 Harvard (1971) Bazelon (D.C. Cir.) Gregory K. Palm 1975 1976 Harvard (1974) Friendly (2d Cir.) Christina B. Whitman 1975 1976 Michigan Leventhal (D.C. Cir.) Carl R. Schenker, Jr. 1975 1976 Stanford (1974) Hufstedler (9th Cir.) Tyler A. Baker III 1976 1977 Stanford (1975) Renfrew (N.D. Cal.) David A. Martin 1976 1977 Yale (1975) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.) James D. Alt 1977 1978 Chicago (1976) L. Morgan (5th Cir.) Nancy J. Bregstein (Gordon) 1977 1978 Penn (1976) Robert D. Comfort 1977 1978 Harvard Samuel Estreicher 1977 1978 Columbia (1975) Leventhal (D.C. Cir.) Eric G. Andersen 1978 1979 BYU (1977) J. C. Wallace (9th Cir.) J. Bruce Boisture 1978 1979 Yale (1977) Gurfein (2d Cir.) Paul B. Stephan 1978 1979 Virginia (1977) L. Campbell (1st Cir.) David L. Westin 1978 1979 Michigan (1977) Lumbard (2d Cir.) Jonathan B. Sallet 1979 1980 Virginia (1978) Tamm (D.C. Cir.) David O. Stewart 1979 1980 Yale (1978) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.) / Bazelon (D.C. Cir.) J. Peter Byrne 1980 1981 Virginia (1979) Coffin (1st Cir.) Paul W. Cane, Jr. 1980 1981 Berkeley (1979) McGowan (D.C. Cir.) R. Gregory Morgan 1980 1981 University of Michigan (1979) J. Edward Lumbard (2d Cir.) Paul M. Smith 1980 1981 Yale (1979) Oakes (2d Cir.) Mary E. Becker 1981 1982 Chicago (1980) Mikva (D.C. Cir.) Richard H. Fallon 1981 1982 Yale (1980) J. S. Wright (D.C. Cir.) David F. Levi 1981 1982 Stanford (1980) Duniway (9th Cir.) John S. Wiley 1981 1982 Berkeley (1980) Coffin (1st Cir.) James O. Browning 1982 1983 Virginia (1981) Seitz (3d Cir.) D. Rives Kistler 1982 1983 Georgetown (1981) C. Clark (5th Cir.) Mark E. Newell 1982 1983 Harvard (1981) Wilkey (D.C. Cir.) Michael F. Sturley 1982 1983 Yale (1981) Kearse (2d Cir.) David A. Charny 1983 1984 Harvard (1982) Wilkey (D.C. Cir.) Robert M. Couch 1983 1984 Washington & Lee (1982) Wisdom (5th Cir.) Joseph E. Neuhaus 1983 1984 Columbia (1982) McGowan (D.C. Cir.) Cammie R. Robinson (Hauptfuhrer) 1983 1984 Virginia (1982) A. Lee Bentley III 1984 1985 Virginia (1983) Haynsworth (4th Cir.) Annmarie Levins 1984 1985 Maine (1983) Oakes (2d Cir.) Daniel R. Ortiz 1984 1985 Yale (1983) S. Breyer (1st Cir.) Lynda Guild Simpson 1984 1985 Chicago (1982) Kearse (2d Cir.) C. Cabell Chinnis 1985 1986 Yale (1984) Wisdom (5th Cir.) Anne M. Coughlin 1985 1986 NYU (1984) Newman (2d Cir.) Michael W. Mosman 1985 1986 BYU (1984) Wilkey (D.C. Cir.) William J. Stuntz 1985 1986 Virginia (1984) L. Pollak (E.D. Pa.) Robert Allen Long 1986 1987 Yale (1985) Wisdom (5th Cir.) Leslie Gielow 1986 1987 Michigan (1985) Oberdorfer (D.D.C.) Andrew D. Leipold 1986 1987 Virginia (1985) Mikva (D.C. Cir.) Ronald J. Mann 1986 1987 Texas (1985) Sneed (9th Cir.) Robert W. Werner 1987 1988 NYU R. Hewitt Pate 1988 1989 Virginia (1987) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) Michael N. Levy 1989 1990 Harvard (1988) Oberdorfer (D.D.C.) George C. Freeman, III 1990 1991 Yale (1989) R. Arnold (8th Cir.) Jeffrey S. Sutton (shared with Scalia) 1991 1992 Ohio State (1990) Meskill (2d Cir.) Rebecca A. Womeldorf (shared with Kennedy) 1992 1993 Washington & Lee (1991) Merhige (E.D. Va.) Deanne E. Maynard 1993 1994 Harvard (1991) S. Harris (D.D.C.) James J. Benjamin (shared with Stevens) 1994 1995 Virginia (1990) J. F. Motz (D. Md.) Mark David Harris (shared with Stevens) 1995 1996 Harvard (1992) Flaum (7th Cir.)
Anthony Kennedy February 18, 1988 – present	Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship Daniel C. Chung February 18, 1988 July 1988 Harvard (1987) Kennedy (9th Cir.) Miguel A. Estrada February 18, 1988 July 1988 Harvard (1986) Kearse (2d Cir.) Peter D. Keisler February 18, 1988 July 1988 Yale (1985) Bork (D.C. Cir.) E. Lawrence Vincent February 18, 1988 July 1988 Texas (1987) Kennedy (9th Cir.) Elizabeth D. Collery (served first half only, replaced by Litman) 1988 1989 Harvard (1986) D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.) Miguel A. Estrada (served first half only, replaced by Cordray) 1988 1989 Harvard (1986) Kennedy / Kearse (2d Cir.) Thomas G. Hungar 1988 1989 Yale (1987) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Peter D. Keisler (served first half only, replaced by Cappuccio) 1988 1989 Yale (1985) Kennedy / Bork (D.C. Cir.) Paul T. Cappuccio (served second half only) 1988 1989 Harvard (1986) Scalia / Kozinski (9th Cir.) Richard A. Cordray (served second half only) 1988 1989 Chicago (1986) B. White / Bork (D.C. Cir.) Harry P. Litman (served second half only) 1988 1989 Berkeley (1986) T. Marshall / Mikva (D.C. Cir.) Jeanne M. Hauch 1989 1990 Yale (1988) R. Winter (2d Cir.) Gregory E. Maggs 1989 1990 Harvard (1988) Sneed (9th Cir.) Michael Mollerus 1989 1990 Harvard (1988) J. E. Smith (5th Cir.) R. Hewitt Pate 1989 1990 Virginia (1987) Powell / Wilkinson (4th Cir.) J. Randy Beck 1990 1991 SMU (1988) P. Higginbotham (5th Cir.) Jack L. Goldsmith 1990 1991 Yale (1989) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) David G. Litt 1990 1991 Chicago (1988) Goodwin (9th Cir.) John Shaffer 1990 1991 Berkeley (1989) Kozinski (9th Cir.) David L. Anderson 1991 1992 Stanford (1990) J. C. Wallace (9th Cir.) Ashutosh Bhagwat 1991 1992 Chicago (1990) Posner (7th Cir.) Michael C. Dorf 1991 1992 Harvard (1990) Reinhardt (9th Cir.) Jacqueline G. Cooper 1991 1992 Chicago (1990) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Bradford A. Berenson 1992 1993 Harvard (1991) Silberman (D.C. Cir.) Adam H. Charnes 1992 1993 Harvard (1991) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) Matthew H. Lembke 1992 1993 Virginia (1991) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) Christopher R. J. Pace 1992 1993 Penn (1990) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Miles F. Ehrlich 1993 1994 Stanford (1992) W. Norris (9th Cir.) Gary Feinerman 1993 1994 Stanford (1991) Flaum (7th Cir.) Nathan A. Forrester 1993 1994 Chicago (1992) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) Brett Kavanaugh 1993 1994 Yale (1990) Kozinski (9th Cir.) / Stapleton (3d Cir.) Susan M. Davies 1994 1995 Chicago S. Breyer (1st Cir.) Michael J. Hirshland 1994 1995 Virginia (1993) Luttig (4th Cir.) Cheryl Ann Krause 1994 1995 Stanford (1993) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Daniel Meron 1994 1995 Harvard (1993) Silberman (D.C. Cir.) Nancy L. Combs 1995 1996 Berkeley (1994) O'Scannlain (9th Cir.) Ward Farnsworth 1995 1996 Chicago (1994) Posner (7th Cir.) Stephen B. Kinnaird 1995 1996 Yale (1994) J. M. Walker (2d Cir.) Kelly M. Klaus 1995 1996 Stanford (1992) Rymer (9th Cir.) / Orrick (N.D. Cal.) John P. Elwood 1996 1997 Yale (1993) Mahoney (2d Cir.) F. Allen Ferrell 1996 1997 Harvard (1995) Silberman (D.C. Cir.) Renee Lettow Lerner 1996 1997 Yale (1995) S. Williams (D.C. Cir.) Anthony J. Vlatas 1996 1997 Columbia (1994) Kozinski (9th Cir.) / Leisure (S.D.N.Y.) Stephanos Bibas 1997 1998 Yale (1994) P. Higginbotham (5th Cir.) Raymond Kethledge 1997 1998 Michigan (1993) Guy (6th Cir.) Harry P. Susman 1997 1998 Texas (1996) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Christopher S. Yoo 1997 1998 Northwestern (1995) Randolph (D.C. Cir.) Lisa Grow Sun 1998 1999 Harvard (1997) Luttig (4th Cir.) Howard C. Nielson, Jr. 1998 1999 Chicago (1997) Luttig (4th Cir.) Edward S. Pallesen 1998 1999 Harvard (1997) Leval (2d Cir.) John Christopher Rozendaal 1998 1999 Texas (1997) D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.) James F. Bennett 1999 2000 Vanderbilt (1995) Edmondson (11th Cir.) William A. Burck 1999 2000 Yale (1998) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Stephen M. Nickelsburg 1999 2000 Virginia (1998) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) Michael Y. Scudder 1999 2000 Northwestern (1998) Niemeyer (4th Cir.) Grant M. Dixton 2000 2001 Harvard (1999) Luttig (4th Cir.) Brett C. Gerry 2000 2001 Yale (1999) Silberman (D.C. Cir.) Kevin J. Miller 2000 2001 Chicago (1999) J. E. Smith (5th Cir.) Eugene M. Paige 2000 2001 Harvard (1999) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Steven A. Engel 2001 2002 Yale (2000) Kozinski (9th Cir.) John C. Neiman 2001 2002 Harvard (2000) Niemeyer (4th Cir.) Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz 2001 2002 Yale (1999) Easterbrook (7th Cir.) Alexander J. Willscher 2001 2002 Chicago (2000) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) Rachel L. Brand 2002 2003 Harvard (1998) Fried (Mass.) Brian R. Matsui 2002 2003 Stanford (1999) Rymer (9th Cir.) / Levi (E.D. Cal.) Igor V. Timofeyev 2002 2003 Yale (2001) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Michael F. Williams 2002 2003 Georgetown (2001) D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.) Bertrand-Marc Allen 2003 2004 Yale (2002) Luttig (4th Cir.) Edward C. Dawson 2003 2004 Texas (2002) Carnes (11th Cir.) Orin Kerr 2003 2004 Harvard (1997) Garth (3d Cir.) Chi T. Kwok 2003 2004 Yale (2002) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Andrew C. Baak 2004 2005 Chicago (2003) Posner (7th Cir.) Kathryn R. Haun 2004 2005 Stanford (2000) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Michael E. Scoville 2004 2005 Harvard (2003) Luttig (4th Cir.) Matthew C. Stephenson 2004 2005 Harvard (2003) S. Williams (D.C. Cir.) David M. Cooper 2005 2006 Stanford (2004) Garland (D.C. Cir.) Randy J. Kozel 2005 2006 Harvard (2004) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Jeffrey A. Pojanowski 2005 2006 Harvard (2004) J. Roberts (D.C. Cir.) Zachary S. Price 2005 2006 Harvard (2003) Tatel (D.C. Cir.) / Blake (D. Md.) David W. Foster 2006 2007 Harvard (2005) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Lisa Marshall Manheim 2006 2007 Yale (2005) Leval (2d Cir.) Eric E. Murphy 2006 2007 Chicago (2005) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) Mark R. Yohalem 2006 2007 Harvard (2005) Rymer (9th Cir.) Michael Chu 2007 2008 Harvard (2006) D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.) Stephen J. Cowen 2007 2008 Chicago (2006) D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.) Andrianna Kastanek 2007 2008 Northwestern (2005) Ripple (7th Cir.) C.J. Mahoney 2007 2008 Yale (2006) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Ashley C. Keller 2008 2009 Chicago (2007) Posner (7th Cir.) Travis D. Lenkner 2008 2009 Kansas (2005) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.) Steven M. Shepard 2008 2009 Yale (2007) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Christopher J. Walker 2008 2009 Stanford (2006) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Daniel Epps 2009 2010 Harvard (2008) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) Allon Kedem 2009 2010 Yale (2005) Leval (2d Cir.) / Kravitz (D. Conn.) Scott Keller 2009 2010 Texas (2007) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Misha Tseytlin 2009 2010 Georgetown (2006) Kozinski (9th Cir.) / J. Brown (D.C. Cir.) Steven J. Horowitz 2010 2011 Harvard (2009) Posner (7th Cir.) Robert E. Johnson 2010 2011 Harvard (2009) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Richard M. Re 2010 2011 Yale (2008) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.) James Y. Stern 2010 2011 Virginia (2009) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) Ishan K. Bhabha 2011 2012 Harvard (2009) Garland (D.C. Cir.) Leah M. Litman 2011 2012 Michigan (2010) Sutton (6th Cir.) Eric S. Nguyen 2011 2012 Harvard (2009) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Justin Walker 2011 2012 Harvard (2009) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.) David Denton 2012 2013 Harvard (2011) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) Josh Patashnik 2012 2013 Stanford (2011) Sutton (6th Cir.) Mark Taticchi 2012 2013 G.W. (2010) Ikuta (9th Cir.) Lauren Willard 2012 2013 Virginia (2011) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Greg Dubinsky 2013 2014 Yale (2011) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.) Matthew X. Etchemendy 2013 2014 Stanford (2012) Garland (D.C. Cir.) Katherine Meeks 2013 2014 Penn (2012) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Michael Murray 2013 2014 Yale (2009) O'Scannlain (9th Cir.) Andrew Bentz 2014 2015 Virginia (2012) Kozinski (9th Cir.) James Crooks 2014 2015 Columbia (2013) Kozinski (9th Cir.) Joshua Matz 2014 2015 Harvard (2012) Reinhardt (9th Cir.) / Oetken (S.D.N.Y.) Caroline Van Zile 2014 2015 Yale (2012) Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.) / Boasberg (D.D.C.) Elana Nightingale Dawson 2015 Northwestern (2011) Kethledge (6th Cir.)/Feinerman (N.D. Ill.) Samir Deger-sen 2015 Yale (2013) Susan Oki Mollway (D. Haw.)/Kozinski (9th Cir.) Andrew Kilberg 2015 Virginia (2014) Wilkinson (4th Cir.) C. Harker Rhodes IV 2015 Stanford (2012) Katzmann (2d Cir.)/Zobel (D. Mass.)