Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland
Judge Garland is brilliant, careful, and extremely devoted to getting the law right. The judge was a demanding boss, but he is also extremely kind. He looks out for his clerks, and it is a relationship that continues long after the clerkship.
— Colleen E. Roh Sinzdak, a senior associate at Hogan Lovells and former law clerk to Chief Judge Merrick Garland and Chief Judge John Roberts, explaining Judge Garland’s success as a SCOTUS “feeder judge” to Kimberly Robinson of Bloomberg BNA (whose article also looks at whether Judge Garland feeds more clerks to the left or the right of the Court).