This seat was established on September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 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 |
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 |
Detroit (?) (c. 1898) |
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Horace Harmon Lurton
January 3, 1910 – July 12, 1914 |
Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School (year) |
Previous clerkship |
Harvey D. ("Harry") Jacob |
1910 |
1914 |
Georgetown (1913) |
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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 |
Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School (year) |
Previous clerkship |
James Edward Doyle |
1941 |
1942 |
Columbia (1940) |
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Victor Brudney |
1942 |
October 3, 1942 (Byrnes resigned) |
Columbia (1940) |
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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 |
Clerk |
Started |
Finished |
School (year) |
Previous clerkship |
J. Keith Mann |
1949 |
1950 |
Indiana (1949) |
Rutledge |
Lawrence Russell Taylor, Jr. |
1949 |
1950 |
Indiana (1949) |
none |
Charles D. Kelso |
1950 |
1951 |
Chicago (1950) |
none |
Abner J. Mikva |
1951 |
1952 |
Chicago (1951) |
none |
Raymond W. Gray, Jr. |
1951 |
1952 |
Indiana (1951) |
none |
William K. Bachelder |
1952 |
1953 |
Northwestern (1951) |
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Harry L. Wallace |
1952 |
1953 |
Harvard (1952) |
none |
Gerald Levenberg |
1953 |
1954 |
Indiana (1953) |
none |
James R. Wimmer |
1953 |
1954 |
Yale (1953) |
none |
Thomas Milton Lofton |
1954 |
1955 |
Indiana (1954) |
none |
Samuel C. Butler |
1954 |
1955 |
Harvard (1954) |
none |
Laurence Sherman Fordham |
1954 |
1955 |
Harvard (1954) |
none |
Robert H. Cole |
1955 |
1956 |
Harvard (1955) |
none |
Richard T. Conway |
1955 |
1956 |
Indiana |
none |
Richard S. Rhodes |
1956 |
1956 |
Indiana (1953) |
none |
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William Brennan
October 16, 1956 – July 20, 1990 |
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David Souter
October 9, 1990 – June 29, 2009 |
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Sonia Sotomayor
August 8, 2009 – present |
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