Lists of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

The justices with links to their past and present law clerks: • John Roberts (clerks) • Brett Kavanaugh (clerks) • Ketanji Brown Jackson (clerks) • Sonia Sotomayor (clerks) • Elena Kagan (clerks) • Amy Coney Barrett (clerks) • Samuel Alito (clerks) • Neil Gorsuch (clerks) • Clarence Thomas (clerks) == Lists by seat ==

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice) • List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 1) • List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 2) • List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 3) • List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 4) • List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 6) • List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 8) • List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 9) • List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 10) Note: There are no official numbers for the individual seats of associate justice. The numbering of associate justice seats 1–4 reflects the order of precedence of the inaugural justices to occupy those seats, which was based upon the seniority of their commission from President George Washington following their confirmation by the U.S. Senate. The fifth original associate justice seat, and the simultaneously created seventh and eighth seats, are numbered according to the order in which each seat's first occupant received their commission from the president following Senate confirmation. Seats six, nine, and 10 are numbered according to the order in which each was created by statute. Also, due to the several changes in the size of the Court since it was established in 1789, two seats have been abolished, both as a result of the Judicial Circuits Act of 1866 (and before the Court established the practice of hiring law clerks). Consequently, neither "seat 5" nor "seat 7" has a list article. Also, the seat numbers in these articles are not derived from official United States federal government sources, but are used as a way of organizing and detailing the succession of justices over the years since the first set of justices were confirmed by the United States Senate. == Notable clerks ==

• First female: Lucile Lomen (1941) from 1944 • First Orthodox Jewish male: Louis Henkin in 1946 • First African American male: William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. in 1948 • First African American female: Karen Hastie Williams in 1974 • First Hispanic American female: Anna Durand in 1983 • First South Asian male: Vikram Amar in 1989 • First Hispanic American male (Chief Justice of the United States): Ted Cruz in 1996 • First Orthodox Jewish female: Rochelle Lee Shoretz in 1998 • First Vietnamese American male to clerk for two Justices: Joseph T. Thai in 2000 • First Asian American female: Neomi Rao in 2001 • First blind male: Isaac Lidsky in 2008 • First female of Native Hawaiian ancestry: Kamaile A. Nichols (Turčan) in 2016 • First Native American (Chickasaw): Tobi Merritt Edwards Young in 2018 • First blind female: Laura Wolk in 2019 == References ==