Federal Appellate Judicial Clerks 2009

New home for Law Clerk Addict

2009-04-27T22:19:00.002-04:00

I'm pleased to roll out the brand new home for the Law Clerk Addict. It's the home to much, much more than which judges hired clerks from which schools. Please visit and contribute!

http://www.lawclerkaddict.com/

What you'll find:

-Blog entries for LCA and other contributors

-Mirror site for clerk-related threads and discussion board subjects

-Notifications of recently-posted information on judges contacting or extending offers to applicants

-Full database of federal court of appeals judges, and expanded database of federal district court judges

-Law school demographics, archived annually, of the judges' clerks

-Career history, profile information, and anonymous commentary for each judge

-Daily OSCAR updates

-And more to come in the future!

Please, please, please visit, and help make the 2010-2011 clerkship season a rousing success for LCA!

I'm very happy to take any suggestions, comments, concerns, or thoughts you may have on the site.

Thank you!

Big Changes coming to Law Clerk Addict

2009-04-26T18:17:00.003-04:00

That's all I have for now. But please wait with bated breath! (Among the changes: I will no longer be using Blogger, so know that any site using "lawclerkaddict2010.blogspot.com" and the like is fraudulent.)

What's the 3L v. Graduate clerk breakdown?

2009-02-17T19:25:00.004-05:00

In all, there are 289 3Ls clerking, comprising about 56% of all clerks. About 35% of clerks are graduates, totaling 181 clerks. "Unknown" (47) comprises the remainder.

About 82% of clerks on the 10th Circuit are 3Ls, along with 80% of clerks on the 7th Circuit. In contrast, about 53% of clerks on the 2d Circuit are graduates, and about 60% of clerks on the 3d Circuit.

Which judges hire early?

2009-02-17T19:21:00.005-05:00

Two qualifications of this data.

First, "early" means pre-plan. Now, it's not technically "early" to hire graduates pre-plan, but it's a way of distinguishing when judges move and how quickly.

Second, a listing as "not early" may actually mean early. If a judge hires a clerk on August 1, but it is reported on this site on October 1, then it is recorded as "not early," even though it was an early hire. Note, however, that the converse cannot be true, which means that the "early" hiring statistics are a guaranteed minimum.

3L early 46 9.3%
3L not early 243 49.3%
Grad early 114 23.1%
Grad not early 67 13.6%
Unk early 12 2.4%
Unk not early 35 7.1%

Judges known to have hired 3Ls before Labor Day:
Fisher, Van Antwerpen Sr. (3)
King, Niemeyer, Shedd, Wilkinson, Williams (4)
Barksdale, Benavides, Smith, Southwick, Garwood Sr. (5)
Posner (7)
Ikuta, Kozinski, Reinhardt (9)
Gorsuch, Henry, Kelly, Tymkovich, Baldock Sr., Ebel Sr. (10)
Dubina, Pryor, Cox Sr. (11)

Top 31 law school chart

2009-01-13T11:23:00.005-05:00

Here's a visual representation of the percentage of clerks from the Top 31 law schools. (I apologize for the abbreviations; however, they should be sufficiently readable.) Blue means the clerk will graduate in 2009; red means the clerk was a graduate with prior work experience; pale yellow means the clerk's graduate status is unknown.

Percentage of clerks by school update

2008-09-29T08:42:00.003-04:00

Someone alerted me that at least one school's "class size" used for percentages is incorrect. I checked, and sure enough, a number of schools' denominators (i.e., class size) were incorrect. I'm in the process of updating them. My method takes the ABA 2008 report of matriculation, then subtracting transfers out and adding transfers in. While it isn't the precise Class of 2009 calculation, it approximates the class size post-transfers. I hope to finish that shortly.

Whom do the most prestigious judges hire?

2008-09-24T09:49:00.015-04:00

I've created three lists out of whole cloth. The first are the dozen most prestigious judges, by my own estimation and a variety of factors (exclusivity, productivity, feedability, etc.).

The second and third lists are a bit more unique. They focus on the most ten prestigious appointees of the last two presidents, Bush and Clinton. These are generally younger judges who show signs of the factors of the most prestigious judges (or are on that list), have been mentioned as possible McCain or Obama Supreme Court nominees, and are the most "coveted" if you seek a "younger" judge (although not all are necessarily relatively "young," but might be, e.g., one who can serve as a mentor longer, one who still has significant connections in their prior field of work, etc.).

These are wholly subjective, of course, but I welcome comment.

The Dozen Most Prestigious Federal Appellate Judges:
Boudin: Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Yale
Calabresi: Cornell, Harvard, NYU, Yale
Easterbrook: Chicago, Harvard
Garland: Harvard, Harvard, Michigan, Yale
Kozinski: Chicago, Harvard, Northwestern, Tulane
O'Scannlain: Cornell, Virginia, Yale, Yale
Posner: Chicago, Harvard, NYU
Reinhardt: Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, Yale
Sentelle: Duke, Harvard, Harvard
Tatel: Duke, Georgetown, Stanford
Wilkinson: Northwestern, Stanford, Virginia, Virginia
S. Williams (Sr.): Berkeley, Chicago, Yale

Top Ten Bush Appointees:
Callahan: George Mason, Harvard
Colloton: GWU, Harvard, Stanford, Yale
Griffith: Georgetown, Yale, Yale, Yale
Gorsuch: Duke, Harvard, Harvard, Vanderbilt
Ikuta: Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, UCLA
Kavanaugh: Harvard, Harvard, Yale, Yale
McConnell: Harvard, Minnesota, Yale, Yale
Pryor: Alabama, Duke, Michigan
Sutton: Chicago, Harvard, Harvard
Sykes: Georgetown, Northwestern, Northwestern, Yale

Top Ten Clinton Appointees:
Cabranes: Boston College, Penn, Yale
Calabresi: Cornell, Harvard, NYU, Yale
W. Fletcher: Berkeley, Berkeley, Stanford, Yale
Garland: Harvard, Harvard, Michigan, Yale
Katzmann: Fordham, Georgetown, NYU, Yale
Motz: Harvard, Harvard, Maryland, Michigan
Sotomayor: NYU, Stanford, Virginia, Yale
Tatel: Duke, Georgetown, Stanford
Wardlaw: Harvard, Notre Dame, Stanford
Wood: Chicago, Harvard, Northwestern

About this blog

2008-09-23T12:00:00.000-04:00

I've only included clerks hired this year. A two-year clerk in the second year of a clerkship for 2009-2010, for instance, would not be included [but a clerk working a second year would be bracketed]. A career clerk would not be listed.

Feel free to post anonymously. It's not the most readable format, but if you search using Ctrl+F, it makes it extremely easy to find the information you want, all on one page. It's also easy for me to edit, and I don't have to host a Web page.

If possible, please report whether the clerk hired is a Class of 2009 law school student or a clerk who has graduated earlier. Graduate clerks are designated with a school name in italics.

Do not confuse this site with the Clerkship Notification Blog. This site is not intended to be a resource for information on which judges are hiring or who has begun interviewing. It is only intended to log which judges have hired from which schools. Judges who did not hire (or are reported as not expecting to hire) any clerks this term (e.g., some senior judges, those with only career clerks) are so noted. Inactive judges are not listed.

Do not tell me that I'm missing information or about how inaccurate my information is. If it's inaccurate and you can correct the errata, then tell me what to correct and I'll do so. If it's inaccurate but you have no factual information that can remedy the errata, save some anecdotal evidence of "at least a dozen" people who're clerking, or that "I can think of at least three that aren't listed," but you fail to name who they're clerking for, I'll ignore your comments. It's utterly unproductive.

This site focuses solely on federal appellate clerks. There are numerous other resources for Supreme Court clerks, and it does not track staff attorneys. It also looks only at clerks who will work the 2009-2010 term.

Distribution of clerks by law school tier

2008-09-21T11:00:00.009-04:00

Distribution of clerks by law school tiers, calculated for 516 total clerks. (Cf. 2008.)

T1	489	94.8%
T2	19	3.7%
T3	5	1.0%
T4	3	0.6%

T31	460	89.1%
others	56	10.9%

T18	402	77.9%
others	114	22.1%

T14	370	71.7%
others	146	28.3%

T6	210	40.7%
others	306	59.3%

HYS	155	30.0%
others	361	70.0%

Percentage of clerks by school

2008-09-19T19:00:00.010-04:00

(The percentage represents the % of a given class that will be clerking for the 2009-2010 term (excluding all second-year clerks). The denominators for class size include both full-time and part-time students. The numerators are not adjusted to exclude alumni from current students who will clerk, and they include both alumni and current students.)

2	Stanford	19.7%
1	Yale	16.7%
2	Harvard	14.5%
7	Chicago	9.7%
7	Penn	9.6%
12	Duke	8.6%
9	Virginia	7.2%
9	Michigan	7.1%
9	Northwestern	5.4%
5	NYU	5.4%
12	Cornell	4.6%
22	Notre Dame	4.6%
25	W&L	4.4%
15	Vanderbilt	4.3%
6	Berkeley	4.2%
4	Columbia	3.8%
16	Texas	3.7%
32	Alabama	3.4%
22	Minnesota	2.7%
14	Georgetown	2.7%
46	BYU	2.7%
26	Boston College	2.3%
27	Iowa	1.9%
32	Georgia	1.7%
16	UCLA	1.6%
20	GWU	1.6%
27	Illinois	1.4%
55	Baylor	1.3%
142	North Dakota	1.3%
108	Mississippi	1.2%
30	Washington	1.1%
163	Mississippi College	1.1%
44	Davis	1.0%
59	Temple	1.0%
30	W&M	1.0%
22	Emory	0.9%
179	Ave Maria	0.8%
27	Fordham	0.8%
38	George Mason	0.8%
21	Boston U	0.8%
51	Utah	0.8%
86	Catholic	0.7%
42	Maryland	0.7%
19	WUSTL	0.7%
105	Arkansas	0.6%
46	American	0.6%
137	Samford	0.6%
36	Indiana	0.5%
86	LSU	0.5%
18	USC	0.5%
46	Florida	0.4%
125	Texas Tech	0.4%
95	South Carolina	0.4%
38	North Carolina	0.4%
63	Brooklyn	0.4%
73	Pittsburgh	0.4%
44	Tulane	0.4%
36	Wisconsin	0.3%
95	St. Louis	0.3%
86	Denver	0.3%
82	San Diego	0.3%
63	Loyola Marymount	0.2%

Total clerks by school

2008-09-19T18:14:00.012-04:00

2	Harvard	86
2	Stanford	36
1	Yale	33
9	Virginia	29
9	Michigan	28
5	NYU	27
7	Penn	25
7	Chicago	20
12	Duke	18
14	Georgetown	18
4	Columbia	16
16	Texas	16
9	Northwestern	14
6	Berkeley	12
12	Cornell	9
15	Vanderbilt	9
20	GWU	9
22	Notre Dame	9
22	Minnesota	7
16	UCLA	6
25	W&L	6
26	Boston College	6
32	Alabama	6
27	Fordham	4
27	Iowa	4
32	Georgia	4
46	BYU	4
27	Illinois	3
46	American	3
59	Temple	3
19	WUSTL	2
21	Boston U	2
22	Emory	2
30	W&M	2
30	Washington	2
38	George Mason	2
42	Maryland	2
44	Davis	2
46	Florida	2
55	Baylor	2
63	Brooklyn	2
86	Catholic	2
108	Mississippi	2
163	Mississippi College	2
18	USC	1
36	Indiana	1
36	Wisconsin	1
38	North Carolina	1
44	Tulane	1
51	Utah	1
63	Loyola Marymount	1
73	Pittsburgh	1
82	San Diego	1
86	Denver	1
86	LSU	1
95	South Carolina	1
95	St. Louis	1
105	Arkansas	1
125	Texas Tech	1
137	Samford	1
142	North Dakota	1
179	Ave Maria	1
32	Colorado	0
32	Ohio State	0
38	Arizona	0
38	Hastings	0
43	Wake Forest	0
46	SMU	0
46	UConn	0

[other schools outsides the top tier]

Clerks by school

2008-09-18T11:00:00.009-04:00

517 clerks as of March 12 (list does not include clerks serving a second year)

Wiener		5	Alabama
Batchelder		6	Alabama
Baldock	Sr.	10	Alabama
Carnes		11	Alabama
Dubina		11	Alabama
Pryor		11	Alabama
Sloviter		3	American
Wollman		8	American
Prost		Fed	American
Shepherd		8	Arkansas
Smith		3	Ave Maria
DeMoss	Sr.	5	Baylor
Garwood	Sr.	5	Baylor
Gregory		4	Berkeley
Jones		5	Berkeley
Bea		9	Berkeley
Hawkins		9	Berkeley
Ikuta		9	Berkeley
Pregerson		9	Berkeley
Schroeder		9	Berkeley
Tallman		9	Berkeley
Thomas		9	Berkeley
W. Fletcher		9	Berkeley
W. Fletcher		9	Berkeley
Williams	Sr.	DC	Berkeley
Selya	Sr.	1	Boston College
Cabranes		2	Boston College
Wesley		2	Boston College
Barry		3	Boston College
Briscoe		10	Boston College
Hartz		10	Boston College
Selya	Sr.	1	Boston U
Martin		6	Boston U
Winter	Sr.	2	Brooklyn
Greenberg	Sr.	3	Brooklyn
Bybee		9	BYU
M. Smith		9	BYU
N.R. Smith		9	BYU
Wallace	Sr.	9	BYU
Kanne		7	Catholic
Brown		DC	Catholic
Elrod		5	Chicago
Elrod		5	Chicago
Smith		5	Chicago
Wiener		5	Chicago
Sutton		6	Chicago
Bauer	Sr.	7	Chicago
Cudahy	Sr.	7	Chicago
Easterbrook		7	Chicago
Posner		7	Chicago
Wood		7	Chicago
Loken		8	Chicago
Bybee		9	Chicago
Clifton		9	Chicago
Kozinski		9	Chicago
McKeown		9	Chicago
Rymer		9	Chicago
Rymer		9	Chicago
Ginsburg		DC	Chicago
Randolph		DC	Chicago
Williams	Sr.	DC	Chicago
Lynch		1	Columbia
Feinberg	Sr.	2	Columbia
Jacobs		2	Columbia
Kearse	Sr.	2	Columbia
Livingston		2	Columbia
Chagares		3	Columbia
Chagares		3	Columbia
McKee		3	Columbia
Benavides		5	Columbia
Gibbons		6	Columbia
Murphy		8	Columbia
Berzon		9	Columbia
McKeown		9	Columbia
Reinhardt		9	Columbia
Thomas		9	Columbia
Randolph		DC	Columbia
Calabresi		2	Cornell
Hall		2	Cornell
Duncan		4	Cornell
Evans		7	Cornell
B. Fletcher	Sr.	9	Cornell
Canby	Sr.	9	Cornell
O'Scannlain		9	Cornell
T. Nelson	Sr.	9	Cornell
Prost		Fed	Cornell
Aldisert	Sr.	3	Davis
Birch		11	Davis
Lucero		10	Denver
Lynch		1	Duke
King		4	Duke
Jolly		5	Duke
Jolly		5	Duke
Rogers		6	Duke
Siler	Sr.	6	Duke
Murphy		8	Duke
Gorsuch		10	Duke
Henry		10	Duke
Black		11	Duke
Black		11	Duke
Edmondson		11	Duke
Pryor		11	Duke
Tjoflat		11	Duke
Tjoflat		11	Duke
Tjoflat		11	Duke
Sentelle		DC	Duke
Tatel		DC	Duke
Haynes		5	Emory
Carnes		11	Emory
Fay	Sr.	11	Florida
Wilson		11	Florida
Katzmann		2	Fordham
Keith	Sr.	6	Fordham
Hartz		10	Fordham
Kelly		10	Fordham
Gruender		8	George Mason
Callahan		9	George Mason
Torruella		1	Georgetown
Katzmann		2	Georgetown
Wesley		2	Georgetown
Chagares		3	Georgetown
Fisher		3	Georgetown
Fuentes		3	Georgetown
Roth	Sr.	3	Georgetown
Garza		5	Georgetown
Haynes		5	Georgetown
Gilman		6	Georgetown
Sykes		7	Georgetown
McKeown		9	Georgetown
Tymkovich		10	Georgetown
Birch		11	Georgetown
Brown		DC	Georgetown
Griffith		DC	Georgetown
Tatel		DC	Georgetown
Dyk		Fed	Georgetown
Anderson		11	Georgia
Carnes		11	Georgia
Cox	Sr.	11	Georgia
Dubina		11	Georgia
Duncan		4	GWU
King		4	GWU
Williams		4	GWU
Gibbons		6	GWU
Rogers		6	GWU
Colloton		8	GWU
Wallace	Sr.	9	GWU
Barkett		11	GWU
Moore		Fed	GWU
Boudin		1	Harvard
Boudin		1	Harvard
Boudin		1	Harvard
Howard		1	Harvard
Howard		1	Harvard
Lipez		1	Harvard
Lynch		1	Harvard
Lynch		1	Harvard
Selya	Sr.	1	Harvard
Torruella		1	Harvard
Calabresi		2	Harvard
Kearse	Sr.	2	Harvard
Kearse	Sr.	2	Harvard
Livingston		2	Harvard
Livingston		2	Harvard
Raggi		2	Harvard
Sack		2	Harvard
Wesley		2	Harvard
Aldisert	Sr.	3	Harvard
Ambro		3	Harvard
Garth	Sr.	3	Harvard
Roth	Sr.	3	Harvard
Motz		4	Harvard
Motz		4	Harvard
Clement		5	Harvard
Dennis		5	Harvard
Elrod		5	Harvard
Garza		5	Harvard
Higginbotham	Sr.	5	Harvard
Jolly		5	Harvard
Owen		5	Harvard
Owen		5	Harvard
Boggs		6	Harvard
Cole		6	Harvard
Cook		6	Harvard
Keith	Sr.	6	Harvard
Moore		6	Harvard
Rogers		6	Harvard
Sutton		6	Harvard
Sutton		6	Harvard
Easterbrook		7	Harvard
Evans		7	Harvard
Posner		7	Harvard
Wood		7	Harvard
Colloton		8	Harvard
Gruender		8	Harvard
Loken		8	Harvard
Melloy		8	Harvard
Smith		8	Harvard
Bea		9	Harvard
Berzon		9	Harvard
Berzon		9	Harvard
Callahan		9	Harvard
Farris	Sr.	9	Harvard
Fisher		9	Harvard
Ikuta		9	Harvard
Kozinski		9	Harvard
M. Smith		9	Harvard
N.R. Smith		9	Harvard
Paez		9	Harvard
Paez		9	Harvard
Reinhardt		9	Harvard
Wardlaw		9	Harvard
Briscoe		10	Harvard
Gorsuch		10	Harvard
Gorsuch		10	Harvard
Henry		10	Harvard
Holmes		10	Harvard
Lucero		10	Harvard
McConnell		10	Harvard
Tymkovich		10	Harvard
Anderson		11	Harvard
Hull		11	Harvard
Hull		11	Harvard
Marcus		11	Harvard
Brown		DC	Harvard
Garland		DC	Harvard
Garland		DC	Harvard
Ginsburg		DC	Harvard
Kavanaugh		DC	Harvard
Kavanaugh		DC	Harvard
Rogers		DC	Harvard
Sentelle		DC	Harvard
Sentelle		DC	Harvard
Silberman	Sr.	DC	Harvard
Linn		Fed	Harvard
Beezer	Sr.	9	Illinois
Silverman		9	Illinois
Tallman		9	Illinois
Tinder		7	Indiana
Moore		6	Iowa
Melloy		8	Iowa
Melloy		8	Iowa
Riley		8	Iowa
Pregerson		9	Loyola Marymount
Jones		5	LSU
Motz		4	Maryland
Bybee		9	Maryland
Leval	Sr.	2	Michigan
Walker	Sr.	2	Michigan
Smith		3	Michigan
Motz		4	Michigan
Smith		5	Michigan
Clay		6	Michigan
Clay		6	Michigan
Cole		6	Michigan
Cook		6	Michigan
Gibbons		6	Michigan
Griffin		6	Michigan
Kennedy	Sr.	6	Michigan
Kethledge		6	Michigan
Kethledge		6	Michigan
McKeague		6	Michigan
Suhrheinrich	Sr.	6	Michigan
Loken		8	Michigan
Gould		9	Michigan
Gould		9	Michigan
Hawkins		9	Michigan
Kleinfeld		9	Michigan
Lucero		10	Michigan
Tymkovich		10	Michigan
Pryor		11	Michigan
Garland		DC	Michigan
Bryson		Fed	Michigan
Lourie		Fed	Michigan
Moore		Fed	Michigan
Barry		3	Minnesota
Kanne		7	Minnesota
Bright	Sr.	8	Minnesota
Bye		8	Minnesota
Loken		8	Minnesota
Ebel	Sr.	10	Minnesota
McConnell		10	Minnesota
Southwick		5	Mississippi
Southwick		5	Mississippi
Barksdale		5	Mississippi College
Southwick		5	Mississippi College
Gregory		4	North Carolina
Bright	Sr.	8	North Dakota
Winter	Sr.	2	Northwestern
Hardiman		3	Northwestern
Niemeyer		4	Northwestern
Wilkinson		4	Northwestern
Garza		5	Northwestern
Gilman		6	Northwestern
Siler	Sr.	6	Northwestern
Flaum		7	Northwestern
Sykes		7	Northwestern
Sykes		7	Northwestern
Wood		7	Northwestern
Kozinski		9	Northwestern
M. Smith		9	Northwestern
Dyk		Fed	Northwestern
Fisher		3	Notre Dame
Hardiman		3	Notre Dame
Batchelder		6	Notre Dame
Cook		6	Notre Dame
Manion	Sr.	7	Notre Dame
Wardlaw		9	Notre Dame
Kelly		10	Notre Dame
Edmondson		11	Notre Dame
Wilson		11	Notre Dame
Calabresi		2	NYU
Feinberg	Sr.	2	NYU
Jacobs		2	NYU
Katzmann		2	NYU
Leval	Sr.	2	NYU
Pooler		2	NYU
Raggi		2	NYU
Sotomayor		2	NYU
Walker	Sr.	2	NYU
Wesley		2	NYU
Fuentes		3	NYU
Fuentes		3	NYU
Fuentes		3	NYU
Greenberg	Sr.	3	NYU
McKee		3	NYU
Rendell		3	NYU
Michael		4	NYU
Higginbotham	Sr.	5	NYU
Stewart		5	NYU
Clay		6	NYU
Cole		6	NYU
Posner		7	NYU
Noonan	Sr.	9	NYU
Edwards	Sr.	DC	NYU
Ginsburg		DC	NYU
Rogers		DC	NYU
Clevenger	Sr.	Fed	NYU
Cabranes		2	Penn
Walker	Sr.	2	Penn
Wesley		2	Penn
Garth	Sr.	3	Penn
Jordan		3	Penn
McKee		3	Penn
Rendell		3	Penn
Rendell		3	Penn
Roth	Sr.	3	Penn
Scirica		3	Penn
Scirica		3	Penn
Scirica		3	Penn
Scirica		3	Penn
Niemeyer		4	Penn
King		5	Penn
Prado		5	Penn
Kethledge		6	Penn
Martin		6	Penn
White		6	Penn
White		6	Penn
Arnold	Sr.	8	Penn
Wollman		8	Penn
Canby	Sr.	9	Penn
Hartz		10	Penn
Tjoflat		11	Penn
Fisher		3	Pittsburgh
Greenberg	Sr.	3	Rutgers-Camden
Dubina		11	Samford
Cook		6	San Diego
Shedd		4	South Carolina
Murphy		10	St. Louis
Parker		2	Stanford
Sack		2	Stanford
Sotomayor		2	Stanford
Straub		2	Stanford
Ambro		3	Stanford
Chagares		3	Stanford
Gregory		4	Stanford
Wilkinson		4	Stanford
Dennis		5	Stanford
Haynes		5	Stanford
Jones		5	Stanford
Owen		5	Stanford
Boggs		6	Stanford
Cudahy	Sr.	7	Stanford
Colloton		8	Stanford
Bybee		9	Stanford
Clifton		9	Stanford
D. Nelson	Sr.	9	Stanford
Farris	Sr.	9	Stanford
Fisher		9	Stanford
Graber		9	Stanford
Ikuta		9	Stanford
Paez		9	Stanford
Rymer		9	Stanford
Tashima	Sr.	9	Stanford
Thomas		9	Stanford
Thomas		9	Stanford
W. Fletcher		9	Stanford
Wardlaw		9	Stanford
Kravitch	Sr.	11	Stanford
Marcus		11	Stanford
Brown		DC	Stanford
Rogers		DC	Stanford
Tatel		DC	Stanford
Gajarsa		Fed	Stanford
Linn		Fed	Stanford
Van Antwerpen	Sr.	3	Temple
Van Antwerpen	Sr.	3	Temple
Bye		8	Temple
Barksdale		5	Texas
King		5	Texas
Owen		5	Texas
Southwick		5	Texas
Boggs		6	Texas
Cole		6	Texas
Gibbons		6	Texas
McKeague		6	Texas
Rogers		6	Texas
Benton		8	Texas
Bea		9	Texas
Anderson		11	Texas
Carnes		11	Texas
Ginsburg		DC	Texas
Mayer		Fed	Texas
Moore		Fed	Texas
Benavides		5	Texas Tech
Kozinski		9	Tulane
Ikuta		9	UCLA
M. Smith		9	UCLA
Pregerson		9	UCLA
Reinhardt		9	UCLA
Tashima	Sr.	9	UCLA
Tashima	Sr.	10	UCLA
Fernandez	Sr.	9	USC
Murphy		10	Utah
Michael		4	Vanderbilt
Prado		5	Vanderbilt
Clay		6	Vanderbilt
Gilman		6	Vanderbilt
Merritt	Sr.	6	Vanderbilt
Kanne		7	Vanderbilt
Benton		8	Vanderbilt
Gorsuch		10	Vanderbilt
Henderson		DC	Vanderbilt
Stahl	Sr.	1	Virginia
Jacobs		2	Virginia
Livingston		2	Virginia
Sotomayor		2	Virginia
Hardiman		3	Virginia
Duncan		4	Virginia
King		4	Virginia
Michael		4	Virginia
Niemeyer		4	Virginia
Wilkinson		4	Virginia
Wilkinson		4	Virginia
Barksdale		5	Virginia
Clement		5	Virginia
Clement		5	Virginia
Clement		5	Virginia
Garwood	Sr.	5	Virginia
Haynes		5	Virginia
Smith		5	Virginia
Boggs		6	Virginia
Daughtrey		6	Virginia
Gilman		6	Virginia
Kethledge		6	Virginia
Merritt	Sr.	6	Virginia
Beezer	Sr.	9	Virginia
O'Scannlain		9	Virginia
Black		11	Virginia
Edmondson		11	Virginia
Kravitch	Sr.	11	Virginia
Tjoflat		11	Virginia
Cowen	Sr.	3	W&L
Agee		4	W&L
Williams		4	W&L
Elrod		5	W&L
Martin		6	W&L
Baldock	Sr.	10	W&L
Silverman		9	W&M
Kelly		10	W&M
Gould		9	Washington
Kleinfeld		9	Washington
Gould		9	Wisconsin
Shepherd		8	WUSTL
Ebel	Sr.	10	WUSTL
Boudin		1	Yale
Torruella		1	Yale
Cabranes		2	Yale
Cabranes		2	Yale
Calabresi		2	Yale
Katzmann		2	Yale
Leval	Sr.	2	Yale
Raggi		2	Yale
Sack		2	Yale
Sotomayor		2	Yale
Smith		5	Yale
Flaum		7	Yale
Flaum		7	Yale
Sykes		7	Yale
Colloton		8	Yale
Gruender		8	Yale
Berzon		9	Yale
Fisher		9	Yale
McKeown		9	Yale
O'Scannlain		9	Yale
O'Scannlain		9	Yale
Reinhardt		9	Yale
W. Fletcher		9	Yale
McConnell		10	Yale
McConnell		10	Yale
Garland		DC	Yale
Griffith		DC	Yale
Griffith		DC	Yale
Griffith		DC	Yale
Kavanaugh		DC	Yale
Kavanaugh		DC	Yale
Rogers		DC	Yale
Williams	Sr.	DC	Yale

Public service announcements

2008-09-07T18:20:00.003-04:00

As this is the busy hiring season, I'll do my best to keep on top of things. If you for some reason are uncomfortable posting a clerkship lead, please e-mail me at lawfirmaddict [at] gmail [dot] com. All tips will remain anonymous, as they have for several years.

Additionally, it appears that multiple reportings of clerks hired from fourth-tier law schools have been false. I do not know the course of this systematic abuse of the otherwise generally accurate information gleaned from this site and other similar sites. I am contemplating further measures to ensure accuracy without restricting the access of otherwise undocumented reports of hires.

Pre-Plan Statistics - August 10

2008-08-09T23:03:00.007-04:00

Let's provide a little perspective for future reference. All numbers below reflect calculations for clerks reported by August 10. (I hope to follow up occasionally at different stages of the process.)

Federal judges are supposed to follow "the plan" (with respect to rising 3Ls), which means they are not even supposed to receive applications until September 2, 2008. Yet 136 federal appellate clerks have already been hired for 2009-2010, some graduates, some 3Ls. Many 3Ls apply without even knowing that a judge has hired any graduates. A breakdown is below.

While just 23 appellate clerks are 3Ls, a whopping 101 clerks are graduates. Which judges have definitely hired 3Ls so far? (Remember, not all hires may be listed on this site.)

King (4), Benavides (5), Smith (5), Southwick (5), Posner (7), Ikuta (9), Kozinski (9), Gorsuch (10), Hartz (10), Henry (10), Kelly (10), Tymkovich (10), Ebel Sr. (10), Dubina (11), Pryor (11), Cox Sr. (11)

Of course, the Second Circuit already has 18 graduates as clerks (not including, of course, unreported clerks and unknown clerks); the Third Circuit, 16; the Fifth Circuit, 11; the Ninth Circuit, 17; and the DC Circuit, 10.

Contrast that to the Tenth Circuit, which, while hiring just four graduates reported so far, has nine 3Ls. Or the Eleventh, with just four graduates reported so far but five 3Ls.

(Take all analyses with a grain of salt; recall that incomplete data may skew what has been reported. These statistics, at the very least, represent a minimum.)

Which schools have pushed their graduates most successfully before August 10? It's uncertain the effect a school's career services office may have on graduates--are graduates left on their own, or does career services help facilitate graduate clerkship placement? Chicago has six graduates so far; Columbia, four; Georgetown, nine; GWU, four; Harvard, 10; NYU, nine; Stanford, six; Virginia, 11; and Yale, six.

Which schools offer a helping hand if you want to go off-plan before August 10? So far, Harvard has at least four 3Ls placed, and Duke and Michigan each have three 3Ls placed. (None have been reported from Yale, Columbia, or NYU; and one each from Stanford and Chicago.)

EDIT: Some arguably misleading language in the earliest paragraphs has been altered. Also, Reinhardt hired a 3L, not a grad, prior to August 10.

2010-2011 hires

2008-06-18T13:33:00.000-04:00

Please put hires for 2010-2011 here. These will be saved for next year's list.

Welcome!

2008-04-10T21:53:00.002-04:00

A new year means a new set of clerks! Apart from the general provisions below, I wanted to draw your attention to a couple of items.

First, I'd like to track which clerks are graduates (marked in italics) as opposed to clerks that are hired as 3Ls for the year after their graduation. Please let me know if the clerk hired is a "graduate" or "3L." Unknown clerks will be underlined.

Second, feel free to correct me, particularly in these early stages. Among other things, I'm working from last year's list of which judges (generally senior) who don't hire clerks or have only career clerks. Those lists may change, but right now I have the working list of them designated as "none" below. Additionally, if you know of a judge who's passed away, been recently confirmed, or has taken senior status, please let me know if I've failed to update the page.

1st Circuit

2008-03-28T16:12:00.016-04:00

Boudin: Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Yale
Howard: Harvard, Harvard
Lipez: Harvard
Lynch: Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Harvard
Torruella: Georgetown, Harvard, Yale
Selya (Sr.): Boston College, Boston U, Harvard
Stahl (Sr.): Virginia
Campbell (Sr.): None
Cyr (Sr.): None

2d Circuit

2008-03-28T16:11:00.031-04:00

Cabranes: Boston College, Penn, Yale, Yale
Calabresi: Cornell, Harvard, NYU, Yale
Hall: Cornell
Jacobs: Columbia, NYU, Virginia
Katzmann: Fordham, Georgetown, NYU, Yale
Livingston: Columbia, Harvard, Harvard, Virginia
Parker: Stanford
Pooler: NYU
Raggi: Harvard, NYU, Yale
Sack: Harvard, Stanford, Yale
Sotomayor: NYU, Stanford, Virginia, Yale
Straub: Stanford
Wesley*: Boston College, Georgetown, Harvard, NYU, Penn
Feinberg (Sr.): Columbia, NYU
Kearse (Sr.): Columbia, Harvard, Harvard
Leval (Sr.): Michigan, NYU, Yale
Walker (Sr.): Michigan, NYU, Penn
Winter (Sr.): Brooklyn, Northwestern
Miner (Sr.): None

*Five reported clerks

Unavailable: Cardamone (Sr.), McLaughlin (Sr.), Newman (Sr.)

3d Circuit

2008-03-28T16:10:00.028-04:00

Ambro: Harvard, Stanford
Barry: Boston College, Minnesota
Chagares: Columbia, Columbia, Georgetown, Stanford
Fisher: Georgetown, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh
Fuentes: Georgetown, NYU, NYU, NYU
Hardiman: Northwestern, Notre Dame, Virginia
Jordan: Penn
McKee: Columbia, NYU, Penn
Rendell: NYU, Penn, Penn
Scirica: Penn, Penn, Penn, Penn
Sloviter: American
Smith: Ave Maria, Michigan
Aldisert (Sr.): Davis, Harvard
Cowen (Sr.): W&L
Garth (Sr.): Harvard, Penn
Greenberg (Sr.): Brooklyn, NYU, Rutgers-Camden
Roth (Sr.): Georgetown, Harvard, Penn
Van Antwerpen (Sr.): Temple, Temple
Nygaard (Sr.): None

Unavailable: Stapleton (Sr.), Weis (Sr.)

4th Circuit

2008-03-28T16:09:00.023-04:00

Agee: [Richmond], W&L, [W&M]
Duncan: Cornell, Harvard, Harvard
Gregory: Berkeley, North Carolina, Stanford
King: Duke, GWU, Virginia
Michael: NYU, Vanderbilt, Virginia
Motz: Harvard, Harvard, Maryland, Michigan
Niemeyer: Northwestern, Penn, Virginia
Shedd: South Carolina
Wilkinson: Northwestern, Stanford, Virginia, Virginia
Williams: GWU, W&L
Traxler: None
Hamilton (Sr.): None
Wilkins (Sr.): None

5th Circuit

2008-03-28T16:08:00.031-04:00

Barksdale: Mississippi College, Texas, Virginia
Benavides: Columbia, Texas Tech
Clement: Harvard, Virginia, Virginia, Virginia
Dennis: Harvard, Stanford
Elrod: Chicago, Chicago, Harvard, W&L
Garza: Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern
Haynes: Emory, Georgetown, Stanford, Virginia
Jolly: Duke, Duke, Harvard
Jones: Berkeley, LSU, Stanford
King: Penn, Texas
Owen: Harvard, Harvard, Stanford, Texas
Prado: Penn, Vanderbilt
Southwick: Mississippi, Mississippi, Mississippi College, Texas
Smith: Chicago, Michigan, Virginia, Yale
Stewart: NYU
Wiener: Alabama, Chicago
DeMoss (Sr.): Baylor
Garwood (Sr.): Baylor, Virginia
Higginbotham (Sr.): Harvard, NYU

Unavailable: Davis, Duhé (Sr.), Reavley (Sr.)

6th Circuit

2008-03-28T16:07:00.027-04:00

Batchelder: Alabama, Notre Dame
Boggs: Harvard, Texas, Stanford, Virginia
Clay: Michigan, Michigan, NYU, Vanderbilt
Cole: Harvard, Michigan, NYU, Texas
Cook: Harvard, Michigan, Notre Dame, San Diego
Daughtrey: Virginia
Gibbons: Columbia, GWU, Michigan, Texas
Gilman: Georgetown, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Virginia
Griffin: Michigan
Kethledge: Michigan, Michigan, Penn, Virginia
Martin: Boston U, Penn, W&L
McKeague: Michigan, Texas
Moore: Harvard, Iowa
Rogers: Duke, GWU, Harvard, Texas
Sutton: Chicago, Harvard, Harvard
White: Penn, Penn
Keith (Sr.): Fordham, Harvard
Kennedy (Sr.): Michigan
Merritt (Sr.): Vanderbilt, Virginia
Siler (Sr.): Duke, Northwestern
Suhrheinrich (Sr.): Michigan
Guy (Sr.): None
Nelson (Sr.): None

Unavailable: Norris (Sr.), Ryan (Sr.)

7th Circuit

2008-03-28T16:06:00.014-04:00

Easterbrook: Chicago, Harvard
Evans: Cornell, Harvard
Flaum: Northwestern, Yale, Yale
Kanne: Catholic, Minnesota, Vanderbilt
Posner: Chicago, Harvard, NYU
Sykes: Georgetown, Northwestern, Northwestern, Yale
Tinder: Indiana
Wood: Chicago, Harvard, Northwestern
Bauer (Sr.): Chicago
Cudahy (Sr.): Chicago, Stanford
Manion (Sr.): Notre Dame

Unavailable: Rovner, Williams, Coffey (Sr.), Ripple (Sr.)

8th Circuit

2008-03-28T16:05:00.015-04:00

Benton: Vanderbilt, Texas
Bye: Minnesota, Temple
Colloton: GWU, Harvard, Stanford, Yale
Gruender: George Mason, Harvard, Yale, [Harvard/Michigan State]
Loken: Chicago, Harvard, Michigan, Minnesota
Melloy: Harvard, Iowa, Iowa
Murphy: Columbia, Duke
Riley: Iowa
Shepherd: Arkansas, WUSTL
Smith: Harvard
Wollman: American, Penn
Arnold (Sr.): Penn
Bright (Sr.): Minnesota, North Dakota
Hansen (Sr.): None
Magill (Sr.): None

Unavailable: Beam (Sr.), Bowman (Sr.), Gibson (Sr.)

9th Circuit

2008-03-28T16:04:00.049-04:00

Bea: Berkeley, Harvard, Texas
Berzon: Columbia, Harvard, Harvard, Yale
Bybee: BYU, Chicago, Maryland, Stanford
Callahan: George Mason, Harvard
Clifton: Chicago, Stanford
Fisher: Harvard, Stanford, Yale
W. Fletcher: Berkeley, Berkeley, Stanford, Yale
Gould: Michigan, Michigan, Washington, Wisconsin
Graber: Stanford
Ikuta: Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, UCLA
Kozinski: Chicago, Harvard, Northwestern, Tulane
Kleinfeld: Michigan, Washington
McKeown: Chicago, Columbia, Georgetown, Yale
O'Scannlain: Cornell, Virginia, Yale, Yale
Paez: Harvard, Harvard, Stanford
Pregerson: Berkeley, Loyola Marymount, UCLA
Reinhardt: Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, Yale
Rymer: Chicago, Chicago, Stanford
Schroeder: Berkeley
Silverman: Illinois, W&M
M. Smith: BYU, Harvard, Northwestern, UCLA
N.R. Smith: BYU, Harvard
Tallman: Berkeley, Illinois
Thomas: Berkeley, Columbia, Stanford, Stanford
Wardlaw: Harvard, Notre Dame, Stanford
Beezer (Sr.): Illinois, Virginia
Farris (Sr.): Harvard, Stanford
Fernandez (Sr.): USC
B. Fletcher (Sr.): Cornell
Hawkins (Sr.): Berkeley, Michigan
D. Nelson (Sr.): Stanford
T. Nelson (Sr.): Cornell
Noonan (Sr.): NYU
Tashima (Sr.): Stanford, UCLA, UCLA
Wallace (Sr.): BYU, GWU
Boochever (Sr.): None
Canby (Sr.): Cornell, Penn
Leavy (Sr.): None
Skopil (Sr.): None
Trott (Sr.): None

Unavailable: Rawlinson, Alarcon (Sr.), Browning (Sr.), Brunetti (Sr.), Goodwin (Sr.), Hall (Sr.), Hug (Sr.), Thompson (Sr.)

10th Circuit

2008-03-28T16:03:00.020-04:00

Briscoe: Boston College, Harvard
Gorsuch: Duke, Harvard, Harvard, Vanderbilt
Hartz: Boston College, Fordham, Penn
Henry: Duke, Harvard
Holmes: Harvard
Kelly: Fordham, Notre Dame, W&M
Lucero: Denver, Harvard, Michigan
McConnell: Harvard, Minnesota, Yale, Yale
Murphy: St. Louis, Utah
Tymkovich: Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan
Baldock (Sr.): Alabama, W&L
Ebel (Sr.): Minnesota, WUSTL
Anderson (Sr.): None
Brorby (Sr.): None
Porfilio (Sr.): None

Unavailable: O'Brien, Tacha, Holloway (Sr.), McKay (Sr.), McWilliams (Sr.), Seymour (Sr.),

11th Circuit

2008-03-28T16:02:00.022-04:00

Anderson: Georgia, Harvard, Texas
Barkett: GWU
Birch: Davis, Georgetown
Black: Duke, Duke, Virginia
Carnes: Alabama, Emory, Georgia, Texas
Dubina: Alabama, Georgia, Samford
Edmondson: Duke, Notre Dame, Virginia
Hull: Harvard, Harvard
Marcus: Harvard, Stanford
Pryor: Alabama, Duke, Michigan
Tjoflat*: Duke, Duke, Duke, Penn, Virginia
Wilson: Florida, Notre Dame
Cox (Sr.): Georgia
Fay (Sr.): Florida
Kravitch (Sr.): Stanford, Virginia
Hill (Sr.): None

*five reported clerks

DC Circuit

2008-03-28T16:01:00.017-04:00

Brown: Catholic, Georgetown, Harvard, Stanford
Garland: Harvard, Harvard, Michigan, Yale
Griffith: Georgetown, Yale, Yale, Yale
Ginsburg: Chicago, Harvard, NYU, Texas
Henderson: Vanderbilt
Kavanaugh: Harvard, Harvard, Yale, Yale
Randolph: Chicago, Columbia
Rogers: Harvard, NYU, Stanford, Yale
Sentelle: Duke, Harvard, Harvard
Tatel: Duke, Georgetown, Stanford
Edwards (Sr.): NYU
Silberman (Sr.): Harvard
Williams (Sr.): Berkeley, Chicago, Yale

Unavailable: Buckley (Sr.)

Federal Circuit

2008-03-28T16:00:00.015-04:00

Bryson: Michigan
Dyk: Georgetown, Northwestern
Gajarsa: Stanford
Linn: Harvard, Stanford
Lourie: Michigan
Mayer: Texas
Moore: GWU, Michigan, Texas
Prost: American, Cornell
Clevenger (Sr.): NYU
Archer (Sr.): None
Plager (Sr.): None

Unavailable: Michel, Newman, Rader, Schall, Friedman (Sr.)