Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Chief Justice Roberts

Okay, so Chief Justice John Roberts can’t administer an oath of office to save his life. But he can hire brilliant and fabulous law clerks:

1. James McDonald (UVA 2007 / Sutton)

2. Stephen Sachs (Yale 2007 / S. Williams)

2. Erik Zimmerman (Stanford 2007/Wilkinson)

They join the previously hired Roman Martinez (Yale 2008 / Kavanaugh), filling up JGR’s chambers for October Term 2009.

We also hear that Justice Samuel A. Alito is done hiring for OT 2009. In addition to Jaynie Randall’s previously reported hiring, we can now add:

1. Amit Agarwal (Georgetown / Kavanaugh)

2. K. Winn Allen (UVA / Sutton)

If you know the identity of the fourth Alito clerk, please drop us a line. We hear that SAA is a bit secretive about his clerk hiring, which strikes us as a bit silly. As a former prosecutor, Justice Alito should be familiar with the inevitable discovery doctrine. Why guard the identities of Supreme Court clerks so jealously, when they’re all going to be made public eventually by the Court’s Public Information Office?

Updated lists of Supreme Court clerks, for OT 2009 and OT 2010, after the jump.

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OCTOBER TERM 2009 SUPREME COURT CLERK HIRES (as of January 27, 2009)

Chief Justice John G. Roberts

1. Roman Martinez (Yale 2008 / Kavanaugh)

2. James M. McDonald (UVA 2007 / Sutton)

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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 (Chicago 2008 / O’Scannlain)

4. Katherine Twomey (UVA 2008 / Wilkinson)

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy

1. Scott Keller (University of Texas 2007 / Kozinski)

2. ?

3. ?

4. ?

Justice David H. Souter

1. ?

2. ?

3. ?

4. ?

Justice Clarence Thomas

1. Elizabeth Papez (Harvard 1999 / Boggs)

2. Marah Stith (Yale 2006 / O’Scannlain)

3. ?

4. ?

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. ?

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (retired):

1. Joshua Deahl (U. Michigan 2006 / Benavides)

OCTOBER TERM 2010 SUPREME COURT CLERK HIRES (as of December 3, 2008)

Chief Justice John G. Roberts

1. ?

2. ?

3. ?

4. ?

Justice John Paul Stevens

1. ?

2. ?

3. ?

4. ?

Justice Antonin Scalia

1. ?

2. ?

3. ?

4. ?

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy

1. ?

2. ?

3. ?

4. ?

Justice David H. Souter

1. ?

2. ?

3. ?

4. ?

Justice Clarence Thomas

1. ?

2. ?

3. ?

4. ?

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

1. Amy Bergquist (U. Minnesota 2007 / W. Fletcher / J. Tunheim (D. Minn.))

2. David Newman (Yale 2006 / Katzmann / Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.))

3. ?

4. ?

Justice Stephen G. Breyer

1. Erika Myers (Stanford 2008 / Kozinski)

2. Natalie Ram (Yale 2008 / Calabresi)

3. David Zionts (Harvard 2008 / Garland)

4. ?

Justice Samuel Alito

1. ?

2. ?

3. ?

4. ?

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (retired):

1. ?

SCOTUS Clerk Hiring [Clerkship Notification Blog]

List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States [Wikipedia]

Earlier: Prior ATL coverage of Supreme Court clerks (scroll down)