Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: An Overview of October Term 2009 (Sans Souter)

above the law ^ | 4/15/09 | David Lat

[mathprof]

Yesterday we learned the identities of Justice Clarence Thomas's outstanding law clerks for October Term 2009. With the very interesting exception of Justice David Souter -- who appears not to have hired yet, but email us if we're wrong -- the justices are done hiring for OT 2009.

Based on the SCOTUS clerk roster thus far, here are the top five feeder schools:

1. Harvard: 8
1. Yale: 8
3. UVA: 4
4. Georgetown: 2
4. Michigan: 2

And here are the top five eight feeder judges (note the four-way tie for fifth):

1. J. Harvie Wilkinson (4th Cir.): 4
2. D. Ginsburg (D.C. Cir.): 3
2. O'Scannlain (9th Cir.): 3
2. Sutton (6th Cir.): 3
5. Garland (D.C. Cir.): 2
5. Kavanaugh (D.C. Cir.): 2
5. Kozinski (9th Cir.): 2
5. Reinhardt (9th Cir.): 2

Check out the full lists, for OT 2009 and OT 2010, after the jump.

If you're aware of SCOTUS clerk hiring news not previously reported in these pages -- e.g., Souter hires for OT 2009, or hires by any justice for OT 2010 -- or if you notice an error, please email us (subject line: "SCOTUS clerk hiring"). Thanks.

OCTOBER TERM 2009 SUPREME COURT CLERK HIRES (as of April 15, 2009)

Chief Justice John G. Roberts
1. Roman Martinez (Yale 2008 / Kavanaugh)
2. James M. McDonald (UVA 2007 / Sutton)
3. Stephen Sachs (Yale 2007 / S. Williams)
4. Erik Zimmerman (Stanford 2007 / Wilkinson)

Justice John Paul Stevens
1. Hyland Hunt (U. Michigan 2008 / D. Ginsburg)

2. Adam Jed (Harvard 2008 / Calabresi)
3. Merritt McAlister (University of Georgia 2007 / Anderson (11th Cir.))
4. David Pozen (Yale 2007 / Garland)

Justice Antonin Scalia
1. Jonathan Bond (GWU 2008 / Sutton)
2. Steven Lehotsky (Harvard 2002 / D. Ginsburg)
3. Daniel M. Sullivan (U. Chicago 2008 / O'Scannlain)
4. Katherine Twomey (UVA 2008 / Wilkinson)

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
1. Daniel Epps (Harvard 2008 / Wilkinson)
2. Allon Kedem (Yale 2005 / Leval / Kravitz (D. Conn.))
3. Scott Keller (University of Texas 2007 / Kozinski)
4. Misha Tseytlin (Georgetown 2006 / Kozinski / Brown (D.C. Cir.))

Justice David H. Souter
1. ?
2. ?

3. ?
4. ?

Justice Clarence Thomas
1. Tyler R. Green (U. Utah 2005 / McConnell / Cassell (D. Utah))
2. Brian Morrissey (Notre Dame 2007 / O'Scannlain)

3. Elizabeth Papez (Harvard 1999 / Boggs)
4. Marah Stith (Yale 2006 / O'Scannlain)

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1. Elizabeth Barchas (Harvard 2008 / Garland)
2. Pamela Bookman (UVA 2006 / Sack)
3. Vincent Levy (Columbia 2007 / D. Ginsburg)
4. John Rappaport (Harvard 2006 / Reinhardt)

Justice Stephen G. Breyer
1. Andrew Crespo (Harvard 2008 / Reinhardt)
2. Bessie Dewar (Yale 2006 / W. Fletcher / L. Pollak (E.D. Pa.))
3. Chris Fonzone (Harvard 2007 / Wilkinson)
4. Jennifer Nou (Yale 2008 / Posner)

Justice Samuel Alito
1. Amit Agarwal (Georgetown / Kavanaugh)
2. K. Winn Allen (UVA / Sutton)

3. Jaynie Randall (Yale 2006 / M. Patel (N.D. Cal.) / Cabranes)
4. Lucas Townsend (Seton Hall 2004 / Ackerman (D.N.J.) / Trump Barry)

[mathprof]

Wants to spend more time with mommy?

[yawningotter]

The problem with these law clerks from “elite” law schools is that their schools are overrun with far left wing professors who are teaching what they think the law should be rather than what it actually is. If I were a judge, I would rather have someone who worked their way through school over someone who believes he is entitled to the job based on his school.

[Past Your Eyes]

Please let it be. Come back to New Hampshire and live the life of obscurity you so richly deserve.

[caddie]

Gee, it amazes me that these guys are technically so well versed in the law but you know full well that any and all of them would have no problem at all backing a gun seizure law.

They would just make a hell of a pretty document and have wonderful, crystalline arguments about why it was OK.

Same thing with abortion, and soon, euthanasia.

They are pharisees. They know the techniques and fine points of the law, but they are absolutely clueless about it.

They have no functioning, thinking intellects, no guts, no integrity, no souls. They parrot the liberal line.

All of them, all the liberal Supremes and their butt-boys. With the exception of Scalia and Thomas and maybe one other.

The rest, worthless.

A bright fifth grader has a better grasp of the Constitution than do those ass clowns.