List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 10)
Professor John Yoo, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall (2012). A graduate of Yale Law School, he clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas in the 1994 Term.
Law clerks have assisted Supreme Court Justices in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882.[1] 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.[2]
The following is a table of Supreme Court law clerks serving the Justice holding Seat 10.
This seat was established on April 10, 1869 by the Circuit Judges Act of 1869 16 Stat. 44. |
Joseph Philo Bradley
March 23, 1870 –
January 22, 1892 |
Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School (year) |
Previous clerkship |
Charles Wood |
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Eldwin Raphael Hayden |
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George Shiras, Jr.
October 10, 1892 –
February 23, 1903 |
Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School (year) |
Previous clerkship |
Eldwin Raphael Hayden |
1893 |
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William R. Day
March 2, 1903 –
November 13, 1922 |
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Pierce Butler
January 2, 1923 –
November 16, 1939 |
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Frank Murphy
February 5, 1940 –
July 19, 1949 |
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Tom C. Clark
August 24, 1949 –
June 12, 1967 |
Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School (year) |
Previous clerkship |
Percy D. Williams, Jr. |
1949 |
1949 |
Harvard (1946) |
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Donald F. Turner |
1950 |
1951 |
Yale (1950) |
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Stuart W. Thayer |
1951 |
1952 |
Yale (1951) |
none |
C. Richard Walker |
1951 |
1952 |
Chicago (1950) |
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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) |
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Ellis H. McKay |
1953 |
1954 |
Penn (1953) |
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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) |
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Harry L. Hobson |
1956 |
1957 |
NYU (1956) |
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Robert Gorman |
1957 |
1958 |
Notre Dame (1957) |
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William D. Powell |
1957 |
1958 |
SMU (1957) |
none |
Charles H. Phillips |
1958 |
1959 |
USC (1958) |
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Max O. Truitt, Jr. |
1958 |
1959 |
Yale (1958) |
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Larry E. Temple |
1959 |
1960 |
Texas (1959) |
none |
Cecil Wray, Jr. |
1959 |
1960 |
Yale (1959) |
none |
Carl Estes, II |
1960 |
1961 |
Texas (1960) |
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Malachy T. Mahon |
1960 |
1961 |
Fordham (1960) |
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James E. Knox |
1961 |
1962 |
Houston (LLB 1961?; JD 1964) |
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Burk W. Mathes, Jr. |
1961 |
1962 |
Harvard (1961) |
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Raymond L. Brown |
1962 |
1963 |
Mississippi (1962) |
none |
Martin J. Flynn |
1962 |
1963 |
Indiana (1962) |
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James L. McHugh, Jr. |
1963 |
1964 |
Villanova (1963) |
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James H. Pipkin, Jr. |
1963 |
1964 |
Harvard (1963) |
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Michael Maupin |
1964 |
1965 |
Virginia (1964) |
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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) |
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Marshall Groce |
1966 |
1967 |
St. Mary's (1966) |
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Stuart Philip Ross |
1966 |
1967 |
GW (1966) |
none |
J. Larry Nichols (shared with Warren) |
1967 |
1968 |
Michigan (1967) |
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Jerry W. Snider (shared with Burger) |
1969 |
1970 |
Houston (1969) |
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C. Taylor Ashworth (shared with Brennan) |
1971 |
1972 |
Texas (1971) |
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Thomas Wilson Reavley |
1972 |
1973 |
Harvard (1972) |
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Stafford Hutchinson |
1973 |
1974 |
Texas (1971) |
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William M. Hannay |
1974 |
1975 |
Georgetown (1975) |
Bright (8th Cir.) |
Thomas D. Corrigan |
1975 |
1976 |
Case Western (1975) |
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J. Thomas Marten |
1976 |
1977 |
Washburn (1976) |
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Thurgood Marshall
October 2, 1967 –
October 1, 1991 |
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Clarence Thomas
October 23, 1991 –
present |
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