Where are they now? Supreme Court clerks, OT 2007
Following up on posts on a ten-year retrospective on the Supreme Court clerks from October Term 2003, October Term 2004, October Term 2005, and October Term 2006, here's what the clerks from October Term 2007 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
Jason T. Burnette (Georgia 2006 / R. L. Anderson), partner at Jones Day
Joshua Hawley (Yale 2006 / McConnell), attorney general of Missouri
Anton Metlitsky (Harvard 2005 / Garland), partner at O'Melveny
Erin Morrow Hawley (Yale 2005 / Wilkinson), professor at Missouri
Justice John Paul Stevens
Todd Gluth (Berkeley 2005 / W. Fletcher), partner at Cooley
Sara Eisenberg (Cardozo 2005 / Lifland (D.N.J.) / Barry), deputy city attorney of San Francisco
Kate Shaw (Northwestern 2006 / Posner), professor at Cardozo
Abby Wright (Penn 2006 / Boudin), attorney, DOJ
Justice Antonin Scalia
Aditya Bamzai (Chicago 2004 / Sutton), professor at Virginia
John Bash (Harvard 2006 / Kavanaugh), associate counsel, White House (and nominee, U.S. Attorney, W.D. Tex.)
Bryan M. Killian (Harvard 2005 / Niemeyer), partner at Morgan Lewis
Rachel P. Kovner (Stanford 2006 / Wilkinson), assistant to the Solicitor General
Justice Anthony Kennedy
Michael Chu (Harvard 2006 / D. Ginsburg), partner at Kirkland & Ellis
Stephen J. Cowen (Chicago 2006 / D. Ginsburg), of counsel at Jones Day
Annie Kastanek (Northwestern 2005 / Ripple), AUSA, N.D. Ill.
C.J. Mahoney (Yale 2006 / Kozinski), partner at Williams & Connolly (and nominee, Deputy Trade Representative)
Justice David H. Souter
Bert Huang (Harvard 2003 / Boudin), professor at Columbia
Leslie C. Kendrick (Virginia 2006 / Wilkinson), professor at Virginia
Michael J. Mongan (Stanford 2006 / Garland), deputy solicitor general of California
Micah W.J. Smith (Harvard 2006 / Calabresi), AUSA, S.D.N.Y.
Justice Clarence Thomas
Eric McArthur (Chicago 2005 / Luttig), DAAG, DOJ
Carrie Severino (Harvard 2004 / Sentelle), chief counsel and policy director, Judicial Crisis Network
Heath Tarbert (Penn 2001 / D. Ginsburg), nominee, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development
Leila Mongan (NYU 2005 / Sentelle / Lamberth), most recently counsel at Hogan Lovells
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruthanne M. Deutsch (Georgetown 2004 / Dyk), partner at Deutsch Hunt
Brian H. Fletcher (Harvard 2006 / Garland), assistant to the Solicitor General
Thomas G. Saunders (Yale 2004 / Leval), partner at WilmerHale
Zachary D. Tripp (Columbia 2005 / Kearse), assistant to the Solicitor General
Justice Stephen Breyer
Michael Bosworth (Yales 2003 / Katzmann / Kakoff), counsel at MacAndrews & Forbes
Karen Dunn (Yale 2006 / Garland), partner at Boies Schiller
Eric J. Feigin (Stanford 2005 / Wilkinson), assistant to the Solicitor General
Philippa M. Scarlett (Columbia 2003 / A. Williams), formerly DAAG in DOJ
Justice Samuel Alito
James Hunter (Yale 2003 / Alito), partner at Hunter & Kmiec
Geoffrey J. Michael (Yale 2000 / Alito), partner at Arnold & Porter
David H. Moore (BYU 1996 / Alito), general counsel, USAID
Jessica E. Phillips (Northwestern 2006 / Flaum), counsel at Boies Schiller
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Heidi Bond (Michigan 2006 / Kozinski, shared with Kennedy), author
A few thoughts:
Law professors continue to flow from a few justices. Only five law professors among the bunch, and they're spread out a bit more than previous years.
Plenty of government service. There were 15 involvement in government, and not all federal--service in Missouri, California, and San Francisco peppered the resumes of this class.
A small drop in law firms. There were 14 in law firms, down from 19 last year--and those were all partners. This year's includes several counsel & of counsel positions.
All in all, the sample size is consistently too small to draw much comparison from class to class or across classes. But it's worth looking back over the years to see if 10-year retrospectives have changed terribly much!
Update: I mixed up an OT 2008 Ginsburg clerk with an OT 2007 clerk; that has been corrected!