Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Sparkle Bright Like A Diamond

Here are the Supreme Court clerks selected for October Term 2013 and October Term 2014 to date. For a list of law clerks for October Term 2012, i.e., the clerks who are currently at the Court, click here.

If you have additions or corrections, please email us (subject line: “SCOTUS clerk hiring”). Thank you!

OCTOBER TERM 2013 SUPREME COURT CLERK HIRES (as of February 15, 2013)

Chief Justice John G. Roberts
1. Morgan Goodspeed (Harvard 2012 / Kavanaugh)
2. Michael Huston (Michigan 2011 / Kethledge)
3. Judson O. Littleton (Texas 2008 / Randolph)
4. Matthew Shapiro (Yale 2012 / Wilkinson)

Justice Antonin Scalia
1. Katherine Mims Crocker (UVA 2012 / Wilkinson)
2. Kevin King (Northwestern 2010 / Niemeyer / Randolph)
3. Paul Mezzina (Harvard 2008 / Kavanaugh)
4. Ryan Walsh (Chicago 2012 / O’Scannlain)

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
1. Greg Dubinsky (Yale 2011/Kavanaugh/Feinerman (N.D. Ill.))
2. Matthew X. Etchemendy (Stanford 2012 / Garland)
3. Katherine Meeks (U. Penn. 2012 / Kozinski)
4. Michael Murray (Yale 2009 / O’Scannlain)

Justice Clarence Thomas
1. Katherine Yarger (Duke 2008 / Gorsuch / Eid (Colo.))
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1. Kelsi Brown Corkran (Chicago 2005 / Tatel)
2. Devi Rao (Columbia 2010 / McKeown)
3. Daniel Rubens (Harvard 2008 / Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.) / Katzmann)
4. Burden Walker (Harvard 2010 / S. Williams)

Justice Stephen G. Breyer
1. Mark Savignac (Harvard 2011 / Posner / Feinerman (N.D. Ill.))
2. Thomas Schmidt (Yale 2011 / Garland)
3. Julia Sheketoff (NYU 2010 / Sentelle / Gleeson (E.D.N.Y.))
4. Sara Aronchick Solow (Yale 2011 / Scirica / Baylson (E.D. Pa.))

Justice Samuel Alito
1. Zina Bash (Harvard 2007 / Kavanaugh)
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Justice Sonia Sotomayor
1. Fred Smith (Stanford 2007 / Thompson (M.D. Ala.) / Parker)
2. Sparkle L. Sooknanan (Brooklyn 2010 / Vitaliano (E.D.N.Y.) / Calabresi)
3. Aaron Tang (Stanford 2011 / Wilkinson)
4. Daniel Winik (Yale 2011 / Reinhardt)

Justice Elena Kagan
1. Sophia Brill (Yale 2011 / Garland)
2. Ian Fein (Berkeley 2011 / W. Fletcher / J. Rogers)
3. Jason Murray (Harvard 2011 / Gorsuch)
4. Mitchell Reich (Harvard 2012 / Garland)

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (retired):
1. Julia Malkina (Yale 2011 / Kavanaugh)

Justice David H. Souter (retired):
1. ?

Justice John Paul Stevens (retired)
1. Aaron Zelinsky (Yale 2010 / Griffith)

OCTOBER TERM 2014 SUPREME COURT CLERK HIRES (as of February 15, 2013)

Chief Justice John G. Roberts
1. Kathryn Cherry (Yale 2013 / Kavanaugh)
2. Chris Michel (Yale 2013 / Kavanaugh)
3. ?
4. ?

Justice Antonin Scalia
1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Justice Clarence Thomas
1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Justice Stephen G. Breyer
1. Michael Gervais (Yale 2011 / Kozinski)
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Justice Samuel Alito
1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Justice Sonia Sotomayor
1. Michael Pollack (NYU 2011 / J.R. Brown)
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Justice Elena Kagan
1. Will Dreher (Harvard 2013 / Kavanaugh)
2. Elizabeth Wilkins (Yale 2013 / Garland)
3. Daniel Hemel (Yale 2012 / Boudin)
4. ?

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (retired):
1. ?

Justice David H. Souter (retired):
1. ?

Justice John Paul Stevens (retired)
1. ?

Do you have a hire we haven’t reported yet, or an addition or correction to any of this information? Please email us (subject line: “SCOTUS clerk hiring”). Thanks!

Sparkle Sooknanan ’10 to Clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor [Brooklyn Law School]
Lucky 36: What It Takes to Land a Supreme Court Clerkship [ABA Journal]
In Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices [Amazon (affiliate link)]
List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States [Wikipedia]