October Term 2007 Clerk Hiring: A Request for Information
We're interested in figuring out how many law clerks for the upcoming Supreme Court Term, October Term 2007, are women or minorities. But we don't know all these folks personally (much as we might like to). So we need your help.
After the jump, you'll see a list of the Supreme Court clerks for OT 2007. Check it out. Do you know any of these individuals?
Okay. It appears to us that of the 37 clerks, 14 are women. Is this correct? In terms of clerks with gender-ambiguous names, we've categorized the following as male: Aditya Bamzai (see here), and C.J. Mahoney (the "C." stands for "Curtis").
As for ethnicity, we're speculating -- based largely on surnames -- that the following individuals are Asian American: Aditya Bamzai, Michael Chu, and Bert Huang (whom we know from college, so we're pretty sure about him). But we're sure that we're missing other minority law clerks from our tally.
Can you help us out? If you know of any other OT 2007 clerks who are minorities, or if our tally of female law clerks is off, please note that in the comments (or send us an email).
Update: In case you're wondering, we're collecting this information for a freelance piece we're working on. (In addition to writing for ATL, we freelance for various print publications on the side.)
The full list of OT 2007 clerks appears after the jump. Thanks in advance for your tips!
As always, please notify us of any new SCOTUS clerk hiring by email (subject line: "Supreme Court clerk hiring"). Thanks!
OCTOBER TERM 2007 SUPREME COURT CLERK HIRES (as of April 22, 2007)
Chief Justice John G. Roberts
1. Jason Burnette (UGA 2006 / R. Lanier Anderson)
2. Josh Hawley (Yale 2006 / McConnell)
3. Anton Metlitsky (Harvard 2005 / Garland)
4. Erin Morrow (Yale 2005 / Wilkinson)
Justice John Paul Stevens
1. Todd Gluth (Boalt Hall 2005 / W. Fletcher)
2. Sara Klein (Cardozo 2005 / Barry (3d Cir.) / Lifland (D.N.J.))
3. Kate Shaw (Northwestern 2006 / Posner)
4. Abby Wright (U. Penn. 2006 / Boudin)
Justice Antonin Scalia
1. Aditya Bamzai (University of Chicago/Sutton/OLC)
2. John Bash (Harvard 2006 / Kavanaugh)
3. Bryan Killian (Harvard / Niemeyer)
4. Rachel Kovner (Stanford / Wilkinson)
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
1. Michael Chu (Harvard / D. Ginsburg)
2. Stephen Cowen (U. Chicago / D. Ginsburg)
3. Andrianna ("Annie") Kastanek (Northwestern 2005 / Ripple)
4. C.J. Mahoney (Yale 2006 / Kozinski)
Justice David H. Souter
1. Bert Huang (Harvard 2003 / Boudin)
2. Leslie Kendrick (UVA 2006 / Wilkinson)
3. Michael Mongan (Stanford 2006 / Garland)
4. Micah Smith (Harvard 2006 / Calabresi)
Justice Clarence Thomas
1. Eric McArthur (Chicago 2005 / Luttig)
2. Carrie Severino (Harvard 2005 / Sentelle)
3. Heath Tarbert (U. Penn 2001 / D. Ginsburg)
4. Leila Thompson (NYU / Lambert (D.D.C.) / Sentelle)
Justice Thomas, by the way, is almost done with his October Term 2008 hiring. See here.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1. Ruthanne Deutsch (Georgetown 2004 / Dyk (Fed. Cir.))
2. Brian Fletcher (Harvard 2006 / Garland)
3. Tom Saunders (Yale 2004 / Leval)
4. Zack Tripp (Columbia 2005 / Kearse)
Justice Stephen G. Breyer
1. Michael Bosworth (Yale 2003 / Rakoff (SDNY) / Katzmann)
2. Karen Dunn (Yale 2006 / Garland)
3. Eric Feigin (Stanford 2005 / Wilkinson)
4. Philippa M. Scarlett (Columbia 2003 / A. Williams (7th Cir.))
Justice Samuel Alito
1. James Hunter (Yale 2004 / Alito)
2. Geoffrey Michael (Yale 2000 / Alito)
3. David H. Moore (BYU 1996 / Alito)
4. Jessica Phillips (Northwestern 2006 / Flaum)
Justice Alito has started hiring for OT 2008 too. He has already hired Professor Dana Irwin, a former Third Circuit clerk (but not a former Alito clerk -- she clerked for Chief Judge Anthony Scirica).
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (retired):
1. Heidi Bond (U. Michigan 2006 / Kozinski)
Earlier: October Term 2007 Clerk Hiring: Filling in the Blanks
October Term 2007 Clerk Hiring: It's Almost Over (If It Isn't Already)
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring: A Few More OT 2007 Hires
More SCOTUS Clerk Hiring News: October Term 2007 Hires
SCOTUS Clerk Hiring News: An Errata Sheet
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Update: October Term 2007
(25) Comments
why?
any other OT 08 information?
aditya is an Indian name - male.
11:34:
In my Indian family, there are 3 Aditya, all female.
Aditya Bamzai is a male. Really nice guy, and it is nice to see him rewarded.
So Cardozo, BYU, and Georgetown all sent the same number of clerks to the Court.
Does Stevens have some kind of irrational dislike for anyone who went to an elite school? Even if this year is an anomaly, it is statistically impossible that NONE of the four strongest candidates attended H/Y.
dont forget georgia 1:35
Why do even the most conservative justices not recruit from Liberty and Regent? If we had a non-Catholic among the conservative side of the Court, these schools would probably do much better.
or Boalt, NYU, and UVA 2:29 and 1:35
simple: those schools suck.
Is this a joke? Some people chose their law schools for reasons other than the US News rankings.
regents rep will catch up to it, for now they have to be content with being #1 in doj placement
Heidi Bond is half-Chinese.
http://blog.qiken.org/archives/001054.html
I've heard that Breyer has already hired his two guys for OT 2008. Matthew Price (Harvard '06/Boudin) and Seth Grossman (Yale '05/Reinhardt/Calabresi). This isn't first-hand, though.
Micah Smith is a racial minority.
Ave Maria placed a clerk there recently, I think
Aditya Bamzai and Michael Chu are indeed 'minorities', they're two of 5 recent MBR&M Chicago summers that are on this list.
Ruthanne Deutsch is at least partially a minority from what I remember.
"Does Stevens have some kind of irrational dislike for anyone who went to an elite school? Even if this year is an anomaly, it is statistically impossible that NONE of the four strongest candidates attended H/Y."
You're kidding, right? Blah.
"Why do even the most conservative justices not recruit from Liberty and Regent? If we had a non-Catholic among the conservative side of the Court, these schools would probably do much better."
Wait, you really ARE kidding, aren't you?
what amused me most about the Stevens/irrational dislike comment at 2:27 was when i scrolled up to check out which schools theh clerks acutually went to.
yes, clearly a bunch of inexplicable second raters.
And you know that Posner and Boudin are notorious for hiring second-rate clerks.
Annie Kastanek is a white girl from Minnesota.
Philippa Scarlett is Afro-Caribbean-American.
Philippa Scarlett is Afro-Caribbean-American.