Alma mater

Harvard College

76 U.S. federal judges studied here. See where it ranks among law schools by judges produced.

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
William Cushing	A.B.	Associate Justice	1751
David Sewall	A.B.	Judge	1755
John Lowell		Judge	1760
John Pickering		Judge	1761
Benjamin Bourne		Judge	1775
Samuel Hitchcock		Judge	1777
David Leonard Barnes		Judge	1780
Elijah Paine	A.B.	Judge	1781
John Davis		Judge	1781
Joseph Story		Associate Justice	1798
Willard Hall		Judge	1799
Ashur Ware	A.B.	Judge	1804
Peleg Sprague	A.B.	Judge	1812
Edward Greely Loring	A.B.	Judge	1821
James Dandridge Halyburton	A.B.	Judge	1823
John James Gilchrist		Judge	1828
Edward Henry Durell		Judge	1831
Edward Fox		Judge	1834
Charles Pinckney James		Associate Justice	1838
John Lowell	A.B.	Judge	1843
William Adams Richardson	A.B.	Chief Justice	1843
Horace Gray	B.A.	Associate Justice	1845
John Chandler Bancroft Davis	A.B.	Judge	1847
Thomas John Morris	A.B.	Judge	1856
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.	A.B.	Associate Justice	1861
Frederic Dodge	B.A.	Judge	1867
William Henry Moody	A.B.	Associate Justice	1876
Augustus Noble Hand	A.B.	Judge	1890
James Madison Morton Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1891
Fredrick William Dallinger	A.B.	Judge	1893
Learned Hand	A.B.	Judge	1893
Francis Joseph William Ford	A.B.	Judge	1904
Henry Jacob Friendly	A.B.	Judge	1923
Giles Sutherland Rich	B.S.	Judge	1926
Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1927
Harry Andrew Blackmun	A.B.	Associate Justice	1929
Walter Roe Mansfield	A.B.	Judge	1932
Herbert Naaman Maletz	A.B.	Judge	1935
Edward Thaxter Gignoux	A.B.	Judge	1937
Franklin S. Billings Jr.	B.S.	Judge	1943
Robert Joseph Ward	B.S.	Judge	1945
John T. Noonan Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1946
Robert Porter Patterson Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1947
Sidney Oslin Smith Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1947
Levin Hicks Campbell	A.B.	Judge	1948
A. David Mazzone	B.A.	Judge	1950
Patrick Anthony Conmy	B.A.	Judge	1955
Alan David Lourie	A.B.	Judge	1956
Charles Proctor Sifton	B.A.	Judge	1957
Timothy B. Dyk	A.B.	Judge	1958
Charles Robert Wolle	A.B.	Judge	1959
Pierre Nelson Leval	A.B.	Judge	1959
David Hackett Souter	B.A.	Associate Justice	1961
Charles R. Breyer	A.B.	Judge	1963
Danny Julian Boggs	A.B.	Judge	1965
Harris L. Hartz	A.B.	Judge	1967
William A. Fletcher	B.A.	Judge	1968
John Gilpin Heyburn II	A.B.	Judge	1970
Dan A. Polster	A.B.	Judge	1972
William Francis Kuntz II	A.B.	Judge	1972
Merrick B. Garland	A.B.	Judge	1974
Michael Chertoff	A.B.	Judge	1975
Amy Berman Jackson	A.B.	Judge	1976
John Glover Roberts Jr.	A.B.	Chief Justice	1976
Philip A. Brimmer	A.B.	Judge	1981
Lewis Jeffrey Liman	A.B.	Judge	1983
Paul Adam Engelmayer	B.A.	Judge	1983
Stephen Andrew Higginson	A.B.	Judge	1983
Daniel Paul Collins	A.B.	Judge	1985
Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1988
David Jeremiah Barron	B.A.	Judge	1989
Todd Michael Hughes	A.B.	Judge	1989
Theodore David Chuang	B.A.	Judge	1991
Richard Franklin Boulware II	A.B.	Judge	1993
Daniel Aaron Bress	A.B.	Judge	2001
William Hitz		Associate Justice	–

Source: FJC Biographical Directory. Data last verified 2026-08-15. Verify against the primary source before relying.