Where are they now? Supreme Court clerks, OT 2006
Following up on posts on a ten-year retrospective on the Supreme Court clerks from October Term 2003, October Term 2004, and October Term 2005, here's what the clerks from October Term 2006 are doing. This list is probably unreliable and has not been fact-checked in any way, except for the links provided (and these links often aren't the best source material).
Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Felicia H. Ellsworth (Chicago 2005 / Boudin), partner at WilmerHale
George W. Hicks, Jr. (Harvard 2005 / J.R. Brown), partner at Bancroft
Keenan D. Kmiec (Berkeley 2004 / Sentelle / Alito (3d Cir.)), partner at Hunter & Kmiec
Paul J. Nathanson (Harvard 2004 / Silberman / Niemeyer), AUSA, E.D. Va.
Justice John Paul Stevens
Nicholas J. Bagley (NYU 2005 / Tatel), professor at Michigan
Chad Golder (Yale 2005 / Garland), AUSA, E.D. Va.
Jamal Greene (Yale 2005 / Calabresi), professor at Columbia
Lauren Sudeall Lucas (Harvard 2005 / Reinhardt), professor at Georgia State
Justice Antonin Scalia
Daniel A. Bress (Virginia 2005 / Wilkinson), partner at Kirkland & Ellis
Louis A. Chaiten (Northwestern 1998 / Sutton), partner at Jones Day
Joshua S. Lipshutz (Stanford 2005 / Kozinski), partner at Gibson Dunn
Hashim Mooppan (Harvard 2005 / Luttig), partner at Jones Day
Justice Anthony Kennedy
David W. Foster (Harvard 2005 / Kozinski), partner at Skadden
Lisa Marshall Manheim (Yale 2005 / Leval), professor at University of Washington
Eric E. Murphy (Chicago 2005 / Wilkinson), Solicitor General of Ohio
Mark R. Yohalem (Harvard 2005 / Rymer), AUSA, C.D. Cal.
Justice David H. Souter
Boris Bershteyn (Yale 2004 / Cabranes), partner at Skadden
David S. Han (Harvard 2005 / Boudin), professor at Pepperdine
Bryan W. Leach (Yale 2005 / Cabranes), CEO at Ibotta
Daniel B. Tenny (Michigan 2005 / Tatel), civil division, appellate, DOJ
Justice Clarence Thomas
John D. Adams (Virginia 2003 / Sentelle), partner at McGuireWoods
David A. Bragdon (Virginia 2002 / S. Williams), AUSA, E.D.N.C.
Adam Conrad (Georgia 2005 / Sentelle), partner at King & Spalding
Brandt Leibe (Yale 2005 / Luttig), partner at King & Spalding
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Kate Andrias (Yale 2004 / Reinhardt), professor at Michigan
Scott Hershovitz (Yale 2004 / W. Fletcher), professor at Michigan
Daphna Renan (Yale 2004 / H. Edwards), professor at Harvard
Arun Subramanian (Columbia 2004 / Jacobs / G. Lynch (S.D.N.Y.)), partner at Susman Godfrey
Justice Stephen Breyer
Jaren Janghorbani (Columbia 2004 / Jacobs / K. Wood (S.D.N.Y.)), partner at Paul Weiss
Tacy F. Flint (Chicago 2004 / Posner), partner at Sidley
Stephen Shackelford (Harvard 2005 / Boudin), partner at Susman Godfrey
Thiru Vignarajah (Harvard 2005 / Calabresi), Deputy Attorney General of Maryland
Justice Samuel Alito
Michael S. Lee (BYU 1997 / Alito (3d Cir.) / Benson (D. Utah)), Senator from Utah
Christopher J. Paolella (Harvard 1999 / Alito (3d Cir.)), partner at Reich & Paolella
Matthew A. Schwartz (Columbia 2003 / Alito (3d Cir.)), partner at Sullivan & Cromwell
Gordon D. Todd (Virginia 2000 / Beam), partner at Sidley
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Justin Driver (Harvard 2004 / Garland), professor at Chicago
A few thoughts:
Law professors continue to flow from a few justices. Nine members of this class went on to be law professors, the same number as last year. Six of those came from two justices, Stevens and Ginsburg. (And it's worth noting that while Ginsburg placed three professors this year, it doesn't match the full four-professor slate from OT 2003!)
More partners, and more boutiques. There were 19 law firm partners this time. Last year, a number were in an "attorney" or "counsel" role, but that doesn't seem to be the case for this class. Additionally, two clerks (Kmiec and Paolella) went on to start their own boutiques.
A Senator! A CEO! That's right, Senator Mike Lee of Utah is the first elected official I've run across in the last several years of doing this. Additionally, Bryan Leach is the CEO of a startup, another first in my review of Supreme Court clerks.
Public interest as government work. Usually, there are a couple clerks in a more policy-oriented public interest position, but this year it's pretty much limited to AUSAs, with an SG and a DAG thrown in for good measure.