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The Judicial Code (28 U.S.C. § 671) provides that the clerk is appointed, and may be removed, by order of the Supreme Court. The clerk's duties are prescribed by the statute and by Supreme Court Rule 1, and by the court's customs and practices. The clerk of the Supreme Court is a court clerk.
A law clerk, judicial clerk, or judicial assistant is a person, often a lawyer, who provides direct counsel and assistance to a lawyer or judge by researching issues and drafting legal opinions for cases before the court.
Judicial Clerkship Handbook, USC Gould Law School, 2013-2014, p. 33, Appendix B. "Law Clerks of Chief Justice Earl Warren," Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (2015). Retrieved August 15, 2016.
First Hispanic American male (Chief Justice of the United States): Ted Cruz in 1996 [12] First Orthodox Jewish female: Rochelle Lee Shoretz in 1998 [13] First Vietnamese American male to clerk for two Justices: Joseph T. Thai in 2000 [14] First Asian American female: Neomi Rao in 2001 [15] First blind male: Isaac Lidsky in 2008 [16]
The following is a table of law clerks serving the associate justice holding Supreme Court seat 10 (the Court's tenth associate justice seat by order of creation), which was established on April 10, 1869 by the 41st Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1869 (16 Stat. 44).
Clerk Started Finished School (year) Previous clerkship Hugh W. Baxter 1993 1994 Stanford (1990) Brennan / Blackmun / R. B. Ginsburg David G. Post: 1993 1994 Georgetown (1986) R. B. Ginsburg Margo Schlanger (Bagenstos) 1993 1995 Yale (1993) none Alexandra Anastasia Ekaterina Shapiro (Bach) 1993 1994 Columbia (1991)
Rachel Brand, who was United States Associate Attorney General, clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy during the 2002–03 term. Law clerks have assisted the justices of the United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882. Each justice is permitted to have between three and four law clerks per Court term. Most persons serving in this ...
Supreme Court clerkships are highly prized and the most difficult to secure in the American clerking landscape—they have been called the "brass ring of law clerk fame" [3] and the "ultimate achievement." [4] Feeder clerkships are, consequently, similarly prized as stepping stones to a potential clerkship with the Supreme Court.