| This seat was established by the Constitution and organized on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 [see 1 Stat. 73]. |
| Morrison Waite |
March 4, 1874 – March 23, 1888 |
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Melville Fuller
October 8, 1888 –
July 4, 1910
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Edward Douglass White
December 19, 1910 –
May 19, 1921
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William Howard Taft
July 11, 1921 –
February 3, 1930
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Charles Evans Hughes
February 24, 1930 –
June 30, 1941
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| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| Wendell Mischler |
1930 |
1930 |
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Taft |
| Reynolds Robertson |
1930 |
1934 |
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Taft |
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Harlan Fiske Stone
July 3, 1941 –
April 22, 1946
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Fred M. Vinson
June 24, 1946 –
September 8, 1953
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Earl Warren
October 5, 1953 –
June 23, 1969
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Warren E. Burger
June 23, 1969 –
September 26, 1986
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William Rehnquist
September 26, 1986 –
September 3, 2005
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John Glover Roberts, Jr.
September 29, 2005 –
present
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| This seat was established on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 [see 1 Stat. 73]. |
| William Burnham Woods |
January 5, 1881 – May 14, 1887 |
| Lucius Q. C. Lamar |
January 18, 1888 – January 23, 1893 |
| Howell Edmunds Jackson |
March 4, 1893 – August 8, 1895 |
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Rufus Wheeler Peckham
January 6, 1896 –
October 24, 1909
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| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| Jesse C. Ball |
1895 |
1904 |
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| John E. Hoover |
1904 |
1905 |
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| S. Edward Widdifield |
1904 |
1909 |
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| Horace Harmon Lurton |
January 3, 1910 – July 12, 1914 |
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James Clark McReynolds
October 12, 1914 –
January 31, 1941
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| James F. Byrnes |
July 8, 1941 – October 3, 1942 |
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Wiley Blount Rutledge
February 15, 1943 –
September 10, 1949
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Sherman Minton
October 12, 1949 –
October 15, 1956
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William Brennan
October 16, 1956 –
July 20, 1990
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David Souter
October 9, 1990 –
present
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| This seat was established on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 [see 1 Stat. 73]. |
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Horace Gray
January 9, 1882 –
September 15, 1902
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
December 8, 1902 –
January 12, 1932
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Benjamin N. Cardozo
March 14, 1932 –
July 9, 1938
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| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. |
1936 |
1938 |
Harvard (1935) |
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Felix Frankfurter
January 30, 1939 –
August 28, 1962
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Arthur J. Goldberg
October 1, 1962 –
July 25, 1965
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Abe Fortas
October 4, 1965 –
May 14, 1969
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Harry Blackmun
June 9, 1970 –
August 3, 1994
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Stephen Breyer
August 3, 1994 –
present
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| This seat was established on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 [see 1 Stat. 73]. |
| Samuel Freeman Miller |
July 21, 1862 – October 13, 1890 |
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Henry Billings Brown
January 5, 1891 –
May 28, 1906
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| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| A. B. Hall |
1890 |
1896 |
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| William Henry Moody |
December 17, 1906 – November 20, 1910 |
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Joseph Rucker Lamar
January 3, 1911 –
January 2, 1916
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Louis Dembitz Brandeis
June 5, 1916 –
February 13, 1939
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William O. Douglas
April 17, 1939 –
November 12, 1975
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John Paul Stevens
December 19, 1975 –
present
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| This seat was established on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 [see 1 Stat. 73]. |
| Samuel Blatchford |
April 3, 1882 – July 7, 1893 |
| Edward Douglass White |
March 12, 1894 – December 18, 1910 |
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Willis Van Devanter
January 3, 1911 –
June 2, 1937
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| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| Mahlon D. Kiefer |
1914 |
1919 |
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| Mahlon D. Kiefer |
1923 |
1924 |
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| Arthur J. Mattson |
1924 |
1929 |
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| John T. McHale |
1929 |
1937 |
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Hugo Black
August 19, 1937 –
September 17, 1971
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Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.
January 7, 1972 –
June 26, 1987
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Anthony Kennedy
February 18, 1988 –
present
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| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| Daniel C. Chung |
February 18, 1988 |
July, 1988 |
Harvard (1987) |
Kennedy |
| Miguel A. Estrada |
February 18, 1988 |
July, 1988 |
Harvard (1986) |
Kearse |
| Peter D. Keisler |
February 18, 1988 |
July, 1988 |
Yale (1985) |
Bork |
| E. Lawrence Vincent |
February 18, 1988 |
July, 1988 |
Texas (1987) |
Kennedy |
| Elizabeth D. Collery (served first half only, replaced by Litman) |
1988 |
1989 |
Harvard (1986) |
D. Ginsburg |
| Miguel A. Estrada (served first half only, replaced by Cordray) |
1988 |
1989 |
Harvard (1986) |
Kearse/Kennedy |
| Thomas G. Hungar |
1988 |
1989 |
Yale (1987) |
Kozinski |
| Peter D. Keisler (served first half only, replaced by Cappuccio) |
1988 |
1989 |
Yale (1985) |
Bork/Kennedy |
| Paul T. Cappuccio (served second half only) |
1988 |
1989 |
Harvard (1986) |
Kozinski/Scalia |
| Richard A. Cordray (served second half only) |
1988 |
1989 |
Chicago (1986) |
Bork/White |
| Harry P. Litman (served second half only) |
1988 |
1989 |
Berkeley (1986) |
Mikva/Marshall |
| Jeanne M. Hauch |
1989 |
1990 |
Yale (1988) |
Winter |
| Gregory E. Maggs |
1989 |
1990 |
Harvard (1988) |
Sneed |
| Michael Mollerus |
1989 |
1990 |
Harvard (1988) |
J. Smith |
| R. Hewitt Pate |
1989 |
1990 |
UVA (1987) |
Wilkinson/Powell |
| J. Randy Beck |
1990 |
1991 |
SMU (1988) |
Higginbotham |
| Jack L. Goldsmith |
1990 |
1991 |
Yale (1989) |
Wilkinson |
| David G. Litt |
1990 |
1991 |
Chicago (1988) |
Goodwin |
| K. John Shaffer |
1990 |
1991 |
Berkeley (1989) |
Kozinski |
| David L. Anderson |
1991 |
1992 |
Stanford (1990) |
Wallace |
| John E. Barry (shared with Burger) |
1991 |
1992 |
Columbia (1985) |
Campbell |
| Ashutosh Bhagwat |
1991 |
1992 |
Chicago (1990) |
Posner |
| Michael C. Dorf |
1991 |
1992 |
Harvard (1990) |
Reinhardt |
| Jacqueline Gerson (Cooper) |
1991 |
1992 |
Chicago (1990) |
Kozinski |
| Bradford A. Berenson |
1992 |
1993 |
Harvard (1991) |
Silberman |
| Adam H. Charnes |
1992 |
1993 |
Harvard (1991) |
Wilkinson |
| Matthew H. Lembke |
1992 |
1993 |
UVA (1991) |
Wilkinson |
| Christopher R. J. Pace |
1992 |
1993 |
Penn (1990) |
Kozinski |
| Miles F. Ehrlich |
1993 |
1994 |
Stanford (1992) |
Norris |
| Gary S. Feinerman |
1993 |
1994 |
Stanford (1991) |
Flaum |
| Nathan A. Forrester |
1993 |
1994 |
Chicago (1992) |
Wilkinson |
| Neil M. Gorsuch (shared with White) |
1993 |
1994 |
Harvard (1991) |
Sentelle |
| Brett M. Kavanaugh |
1993 |
1994 |
Yale (1990) |
Stapleton/Kozinski |
| Susan M. Davies |
1994 |
1995 |
Chicago (????) |
Breyer |
| Michael J. Hirshland |
1994 |
1995 |
UVA (1993) |
Luttig |
| Cheryl A. Krause (Zemelman) |
1994 |
1995 |
Stanford (1993) |
Kozinski |
| Daniel Meron |
1994 |
1995 |
Harvard (1993) |
Silberman |
| Nancy L. Combs |
1995 |
1996 |
Berkeley (????) |
O'Scannlain |
| Ward Farnsworth |
1995 |
1996 |
Chicago (1994) |
Posner |
| Stephen B. Kinnaird |
1995 |
1996 |
Yale (1994) |
Walker |
| Kelly M. Klaus |
1995 |
1996 |
Stanford (1992) |
Orrick (N.D. Cal.) / Rymer |
| John P. Elwood |
1996 |
1997 |
Yale (1993) |
Mahoney |
| F. Allen Ferrell |
1996 |
1997 |
Harvard (1995) |
Silberman |
| Renee B. Lettow (Lerner) |
1996 |
1997 |
Yale (1995) |
S. Williams |
| Anthony J. Vlatas |
1996 |
1997 |
Columbia (1994) |
Leisure (S.D.N.Y.) / Kozinski |
| Stephanos Bibas |
1997 |
1998 |
Yale (1994) |
Higginbotham |
| Raymond M. Kethledge |
1997 |
1998 |
Michigan (1993) |
Guy |
| Harry P. Susman |
1997 |
1998 |
Texas (1996) |
Kozinski |
| Christopher S. Yoo |
1997 |
1998 |
Northwestern (1995) |
Randolph |
| Lisa Grow (Sun) |
1998 |
1999 |
Harvard (1997) |
Luttig |
| Howard C. Nielson |
1998 |
1999 |
Chicago (1997) |
Luttig |
| Edward S. Pallesen |
1998 |
1999 |
Harvard (1997) |
Leval |
| John-Christopher Rozendaal |
1998 |
1999 |
Texas (1997) |
D. Ginsburg |
| James F. Bennett |
1999 |
2000 |
Vanderbilt (1995) |
Edmondson |
| William A. Burck |
1999 |
2000 |
Yale (1998) |
Kozinski |
| Stephen M. Nickelsburg |
1999 |
2000 |
UVA (1998) |
Wilkinson |
| Michael Y. Scudder |
1999 |
2000 |
Northwestern (1998) |
Niemeyer |
| Grant M. Dixton |
2000 |
2001 |
Harvard (1999) |
Luttig |
| Brett C. Gerry |
2000 |
2001 |
Yale (1999) |
Silberman |
| Kevin J. Miller |
2000 |
2001 |
Chicago (1999) |
J. Smith |
| Eugene M. Paige |
2000 |
2001 |
Harvard (1999) |
Kozinski |
| Steven A. Engel |
2001 |
2002 |
Yale (2000) |
Kozinski |
| John C. Neiman |
2001 |
2002 |
Harvard (2000) |
Niemeyer |
| Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz |
2001 |
2002 |
Yale (1999) |
Easterbrook |
| Alexander Willscher |
2001 |
2002 |
Chicago (2000) |
Wilkinson |
| Rachel L. Brand |
2002 |
2003 |
Harvard (1998) |
Fried (Mass.) |
| Brian R. Matsui |
2002 |
2003 |
Stanford (1999) |
Levi (E.D. Cal.) / Rymer |
| Igor V. Timofeyev |
2002 |
2003 |
Yale (2001) |
Kozinski |
| Michael F. Williams |
2002 |
2003 |
Georgetown (2001) |
D. Ginsburg |
| Bertrand-Marc Allen |
2003 |
2004 |
Yale (2002) |
Luttig |
| Edward C. Dawson |
2003 |
2004 |
Texas (2002) |
Carnes |
| Orin S. Kerr |
2003 |
2004 |
Harvard (1997) |
Garth |
| Chi T. Kwok |
2003 |
2004 |
Yale (2002) |
Kozinski |
| Andrew C. Baak |
2004 |
2005 |
Chicago (2003) |
Posner |
| Kathryn R. Haun |
2004 |
2005 |
Stanford (2000) |
Kozinski |
| Michael E. Scoville |
2004 |
2005 |
Harvard (2003) |
Luttig |
| Matthew C. Stephenson |
2004 |
2005 |
Harvard (2003) |
S. Williams |
| David M. Cooper |
2005 |
2006 |
Stanford (2004) |
Garland |
| Randy J. Kozel |
2005 |
2006 |
Harvard (2004) |
Kozinski |
| Jeffrey A. Pojanowski |
2005 |
2006 |
Harvard (2004) |
Roberts |
| Zachary S. Price |
2005 |
2006 |
Harvard (2003) |
Blake (D. Md.) / Tatel |
| David Foster |
2006 |
2007 |
Harvard (2005) |
Kozinski |
| Lisa Marshall |
2006 |
2007 |
Yale (2005) |
Leval |
| Eric Murphy |
2006 |
2007 |
Chicago (2005) |
Wilkinson |
| Mark Yohalem |
2006 |
2007 |
Harvard (2005) |
Rymer |
| Michael Chu |
2007 |
[[]] |
Harvard (2006) |
D. Ginsburg |
| Stephen Cowen |
2007 |
[[]] |
Chicago (2006) |
D. Ginsburg |
| Andrianna Kastanek |
2007 |
[[]] |
Northwestern (2005) |
Ripple |
| C.J. Mahoney |
2007 |
[[]] |
Yale (2006) |
Kozinski |
| Ashley Keller |
2008 |
[[]] |
Chicago (2007) |
Posner |
| Travis Lenkner |
2008 |
[[]] |
Kansas (2005) |
Kavanaugh |
| Steven Shepard |
2008 |
[[]] |
Yale (2007) |
Kozinski |
| Chris Walker |
2008 |
[[]] |
Stanford (2006) |
Kozinski |
| Scott Keller |
2009 |
[[]] |
Texas (2007) |
Kozinski |
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| This seat was established on February 24, 1807 by the Seventh Circuit Act [[see 2 Stat. 420]]. |
| Thomas Stanley Matthews |
May 17, 1881 – March 22, 1889 |
|
David Josiah Brewer
January 6, 1890 –
March 28, 1910
|
| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| Frederick J. Haig |
1893 |
1910 |
|
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| Charles Evans Hughes |
October 10, 1910 – June 10, 1916 |
|
John Hessin Clarke
October 9, 1916 –
September 18, 1922
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George Sutherland
October 2, 1922 –
January 17, 1924
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Stanley Forman Reed
January 31, 1938 –
February 25, 1957
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Charles Evans Whittaker
March 25, 1957 –
March 31, 1962
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Byron White
April 16, 1962 –
June 28, 1993
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
August 10, 1993 –
present
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| This seat was established on March 3, 1837 by the Eighth and Ninth Circuits Act [[see 5 Stat. 176]]. |
|
John Marshall Harlan
December 10, 1877 –
October 14, 1911
|
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| Mahlon Pitney |
March 18, 1912 – December 31, 1922 |
|
Edward Terry Sanford
February 19, 1923 –
March 8, 1930
|
| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| William R. Loney |
1922 |
1930 |
|
|
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|
Owen Josephus Roberts
June 2, 1930 –
July 31, 1945
|
| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| William R. Loney |
1930 |
1931 |
|
Sanford |
| Albert J. Schneider |
1930 |
1945 |
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Harold Hitz Burton
October 1, 1945 –
October 13, 1958
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Potter Stewart
October 14, 1958 –
July 3, 1981
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Sandra Day O'Connor
September 25, 1981 –
January 31, 2006
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Samuel Alito
January 31, 2006 –
present
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| This seat was established on March 3, 1863 by the Tenth Circuit Act [[see 12 Stat. 794]]. |
|
Stephen Johnson Field
May 20, 1863 –
December 1, 1897
|
| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| Irwin B. Linton |
1889 |
1895 |
|
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| Clarence M. York |
1896 |
1897 |
|
Fuller |
|
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Joseph McKenna
January 26, 1898 –
January 5, 1925
|
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Harlan Fiske Stone
March 2, 1925 –
July 2, 1941
|
| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| Robert G. Cogswell |
1925 |
1925 |
|
McKenna |
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Robert H. Jackson
July 11, 1941 –
October 9, 1954
|
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John Marshall Harlan II
March 28, 1955 –
September 23, 1971
|
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William Rehnquist
January 7, 1972 –
September 26, 1986
|
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Antonin Scalia
September 26, 1986 –
present
|
|
| This seat was established on April 10, 1869 by the Circuit Judges Act of 1869 [see 16 Stat. 44]. |
| Joseph Philo Bradley |
March 23, 1870 – January 22, 1892 |
| George Shiras, Jr. |
October 10, 1892 – February 23, 1903 |
|
William R. Day
March 2, 1903 –
November 13, 1922
|
| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| Rufus Day |
1907 |
1911 |
|
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| Rufus Day |
1917 |
1919 |
|
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|
Pierce Butler
January 2, 1923 –
November 16, 1939
|
| Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School(year) |
Previous clerkship |
| John F. Cotter |
1923 |
1929 |
Columbus |
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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
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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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