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Harvard Law School

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Judges

JudgeDegreeRoleYear
John James GilchristJudge1831
Edward FoxJudge1837
John Power KnowlesLL.B.Judge1838
Ogden Hoffman Jr.LL.B.Judge1842
John LowellLL.B.Judge1845
William Adams RichardsonLL.B.Chief Justice1846
Walter Smith CoxLL.B.Associate Justice1847
Horace GrayLL.B.Associate Justice1849
Addison BrownLL.B.Judge1854
William Gardner ChoateLL.B.Judge1854
Edward Coke BillingsLL.B.Judge1855
Edward T. GreenLL.B.Judge1858
Hiram KnowlesLL.B.Judge1860
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.LL.B.Associate Justice1866
Andrew Coyle BradleyLL.B.Associate Justice1867
Charles Cleaves ColeLL.B.Associate Justice1867
Elmer Bragg AdamsJudge1868
Frederic DodgeLL.B.Judge1869
Andrew McConnell January CochranLL.B.Judge1877
Louis Dembitz BrandeisLL.B.Associate Justice1877
Francis Cabot LowellLL.B.Judge1879
William SchofieldLL.B.Judge1883
Walter Irving McCoyLL.B.Chief Justice1886
Julian William MackLL.B.Judge1887
Edward Terry SanfordLL.B.Associate Justice1889
George Albert CarpenterLL.B.Judge1891
George Hutchins BinghamLL.B.Judge1891
John Percy NieldsLL.B.Judge1892
Simon Louis AdlerJudge1892
Augustus Noble HandLL.B.Judge1894
James Arnold LowellLL.B.Judge1894
James Madison Morton Jr.LL.B.Judge1894
Learned HandLL.B.Judge1896
Fredrick William DallingerLL.B.Judge1897
William DenmanLL.B.Judge1897
Thomas Walter SwanLL.B.Judge1903
Smith HickenlooperLL.B.Judge1904
Felix FrankfurterLL.B.Associate Justice1906
Francis Joseph William FordLL.B.Judge1906
Harold LouderbackLL.B.Judge1908
John Christopher MahoneyLL.B.Judge1908
Joseph Lamb BodineLL.B.Judge1908
Frederick Voris FollmerLL.B.Judge1909
William Caldwell ColemanLL.B.Judge1909
Francis BiddleLL.B.Judge1911
Harold Hitz BurtonLL.B.Associate Justice1912
Edward Jordan DimockLL.B.Judge1914
Henry White EdgertonLL.B.Associate Justice1914
Herbert Funk GoodrichLL.B.Judge1914
Thurman Wesley ArnoldLL.B.Associate Justice1914
James Patrick LeamyLL.B.Judge1915
Robert Porter Patterson Sr.LL.B.Judge1915
William ClarkLL.B.Judge1915
Calvert MagruderLL.B.Judge1916
John Clyde BowenLL.B.Judge1916
Shackelford Miller Jr.LL.B.Judge1917
John Biggs Jr.LL.B.Judge1922
James Cullen GaneyLL.B.Judge1923
John Ries BartelsLL.B.Judge1923
William Carey MathesLL.B.Judge1924
Edward William DayLL.B.Judge1925
Joseph Edward LumbardLL.B.Judge1925
Charles Ferguson PaulLL.B.Judge1926
Mendon MorrillLL.B.Judge1926
Henry Jacob FriendlyLL.B.Judge1927
Peter WoodburyLL.B.Judge1927
Mosher Joseph BlumenfeldLL.B.Judge1928
William Alvah StewartLL.B.Judge1928
Allan Kuhn GrimLL.B.Judge1929
Anthony JulianJ.D.Judge1929
Bernard Martin DeckerLL.B.Judge1929
Edward Cochrane McLeanLL.B.Judge1929
Irving Loeb GoldbergLL.B.Judge1929
Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr.LL.B.Judge1930
Dudley Baldwin BonsalLL.B.Judge1930
Edward DumbauldLL.M.Judge1930
George Luzerne Hart Jr.LL.B.Judge1930
Inzer Bass WyattLL.B.Judge1930
Murray Irwin GurfeinLL.B.Judge1930
Orrin Grimmell JuddLL.B.Judge1930
Charles Merton MerrillLL.B.Judge1931
Howard Francis CorcoranLL.B.Judge1931
William Joseph Brennan Jr.LL.B.Associate Justice1931
Bailey AldrichLL.B.Judge1932
Harold Montelle StephensS.J.D.Judge1932
Harry Andrew BlackmunLL.B.Associate Justice1932
Jesse William Curtis Jr.J.D.Judge1932
Lewis Franklin Powell Jr.LL.M.Associate Justice1932
Philip Nichols Jr.J.D.Judge1932
William Henry HastieS.J.D.Judge1933
Ben Clarkson ConnallyLL.M.Judge1934
John Francis Dooling Jr.LL.B.Judge1934
John Helm PrattLL.B.Judge1934
Ozell Miller TraskLL.B.Judge1934
Percy Whitman KnappLL.B.Judge1934
Walter Roe MansfieldLL.B.Judge1935
Clement Furman Haynsworth Jr.LL.B.Judge1936
Arthur Stephen LaneLL.B.Judge1937
Francis Lund Van DusenLL.B.Judge1937
Malcolm MuirLL.B.Judge1938
Robert Joseph KelleherJ.D.Judge1938
Cecil F. PooleLL.M.Judge1939
Herbert Naaman MaletzLL.B.Judge1939
Irving HillLL.B.Judge1939
William Percival GrayLL.B.Judge1939
Edward Thaxter GignouxLL.B.Judge1940
Frank Albert KaufmanLL.B.Judge1940
James Bryan McMillanLL.B.Judge1940
Walter Joseph CummingsLL.B.Judge1940
Wilbur Frank Pell Jr.J.D.Judge1940
Willis William RitterS.J.D.Judge1940
Herbert Young Cho ChoyJ.D.Judge1941
Thomas Roberts McMillenLL.B.Judge1941
Bailey BrownLL.B.Judge1942
James Braxton Craven Jr.LL.B.Judge1942
Myron L. GordonLL.B.Judge1942
Wade Hampton McCree Jr.LL.B.Judge1944
Donald S. VoorheesJ.D.Judge1946
George Neves LeightonLL.B.Judge1946
Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr.LL.B.Judge1946
Frank Morey CoffinLL.B.Judge1947
James Lowell OakesLL.B.Judge1947
Andrew Augustine CaffreyLL.M.Judge1948
Charles E. Stewart Jr.LL.B.Judge1948
Francis Dominic Murnaghan Jr.LL.B.Judge1948
John Cooper GodboldJ.D.Judge1948
John Patrick FullamJ.D.Judge1948
Malcolm Richard WilkeyLL.B.Judge1948
Paul Hitch RoneyLL.B.Judge1948
Robert FirthLL.B.Judge1948
S. Arthur SpiegelLL.B.Judge1948
Thomas Morrow ReavleyJ.D.Judge1948
Vincent Lyons BroderickLL.B.Judge1948
William Leonard HungateLL.B.Judge1948
Lunsford Richardson PreyerLL.B.Judge1949
Paul Allen SimmonsJ.D.Judge1949
Robert Joseph WardLL.B.Judge1949
Walter Evan Black Jr.LL.B.Judge1949
Frank Joseph BattistiJ.D.Judge1950
Howard Frederic SachsJ.D.Judge1950
John Joseph GibbonsLL.B.Judge1950
Richard OwenLL.B.Judge1950
Stanley Seymour BrotmanLL.B.Judge1950
William Judson Holloway Jr.LL.B.Judge1950
William Marcellin HoevelerLL.B.Judge1950
Garnett Thomas EiseleLL.M.Judge1951
Leonard Burke SandLL.B.Judge1951
Levin Hicks CampbellLL.B.Judge1951
Samuel James Ervin IIILL.B.Judge1951
William W SchwarzerLL.B.Judge1951
Edmund V. LudwigLL.B.Judge1952
Edward Cornelius Reed Jr.J.D.Judge1952
Leonard I. GarthLL.B.Judge1952
Walter Jay SkinnerJ.D.Judge1952
H. Lee SarokinLL.B.Judge1953
John Francis GerryLL.B.Judge1953
John T. Noonan Jr.LL.B.Judge1954
James Kenneth LoganLL.B.Judge1955
Norman H. StahlLL.B.Judge1955
Robert Ernest KeetonS.J.D.Judge1956
Ronald Rene LagueuxLL.B.Judge1956
Rya Weickert ZobelLL.B.Judge1956
James Byron MoranLL.B.Judge1957
John C. LiflandLL.B.Judge1957
William D. HutchinsonJ.D.Judge1957
Bruce Marshall SelyaLL.B.Judge1958
David Aldrich NelsonLL.B.Judge1958
Joseph Tyree Sneed IIIS.J.D.Judge1958
Zita Leeson WeinshienkJ.D.Judge1958
Peter Collins DorseyLL.B.Judge1959
Walter King StapletonLL.B.Judge1959
Antonin ScaliaLL.B.Associate Justice1960
John Spencer LettsLL.B.Judge1960
Paul Edward PlunkettJ.D.Judge1960
Richard Sheppard ArnoldLL.B.Judge1960
Anthony McLeod KennedyJ.D.Associate Justice1961
Atsushi Wallace TashimaLL.B.Judge1961
Laurence Hirsch SilbermanLL.B.Judge1961
Marvin J. GarbisJ.D.Judge1961
Robert Lanier Anderson IIILL.B.Judge1961
Salvador E. CasellasLL.M.Judge1961
Stephen Fain WilliamsJ.D.Judge1961
Timothy B. DykJ.D.Judge1961
David G. TragerLL.B.Judge1962
Gilbert Stroud Merritt Jr.LL.M.Judge1962
Gladys KesslerLL.B.Judge1962
John Corbett O'MearaLL.B.Judge1962
Lawrence E. KahnJ.D.Judge1962
Paul Ramon MatiaJ.D.Judge1962
Richard Allen PosnerLL.B.Judge1962
Diarmuid Fionntain O'ScannlainJ.D.Judge1963
Ferdinand Francis FernandezLL.M.Judge1963
Lee Roy WestLL.M.Judge1963
Pierre Nelson LevalJ.D.Judge1963
Judith Ann Wilson RogersLL.B.Judge1964
Michael BoudinLL.B.Judge1964
Roger Leland WollmanLL.M.Judge1964
Stephen Gerald BreyerLL.B.Associate Justice1964
Thomas Penfield JacksonLL.B.Judge1964
James B. LokenLL.B.Judge1965
James Block ZagelJ.D.Judge1965
James Knoll GardnerJ.D.Judge1965
Jane Richards RothLL.B.Judge1965
Joseph Eron IrenasJ.D.Judge1965
Stephanie Kulp SeymourJ.D.Judge1965
Stephen S. TrottLL.B.Judge1965
Barbara Jacobs RothsteinLL.B.Judge1966
David Hackett SouterLL.B.Associate Justice1966
Ronald Lee GilmanJ.D.Judge1967
William G. YoungLL.B.Judge1967
A. Howard MatzJ.D.Judge1968
Andrew Jay KleinfeldJ.D.Judge1969
David Brock HornbyJ.D.Judge1969
James G. CarrLL.B.Judge1969
Jed Saul RakoffJ.D.Judge1969
Kimba Maureen WoodJ.D.Judge1969
Lewis A. KaplanJ.D.Judge1969
Morris Sheppard ArnoldLL.M.Judge1969
Thomas Selby Ellis IIIJ.D.Judge1969
Allyne R. RossJ.D.Judge1970
David H. CoarLL.M.Judge1970
George Z. SingalJ.D.Judge1970
Reginald C. LindsayJ.D.Judge1970
John George KoeltlJ.D.Judge1971
Mark Lawrence WolfJ.D.Judge1971
Stanley MarcusJ.D.Judge1971
William Haskell AlsupJ.D.Judge1971
Deborah A. BattsJ.D.Judge1972
George A. O'Toole Jr.J.D.Judge1972
Harris L. HartzJ.D.Judge1972
John W. SedwickJ.D.Judge1972
Richard Brooke JacksonJ.D.Judge1972
Henry Harold Kennedy Jr.J.D.Judge1973
Karen Nelson MooreJ.D.Judge1973
James Randolph SpencerJ.D.Judge1974
Jeremy D. FogelJ.D.Judge1974
Margaret M. MorrowJ.D.Judge1974
Neil Vincent WakeJ.D.Judge1974
Catherine C. BlakeJ.D.Judge1975
Edward Earl CarnesJ.D.Judge1975
Faith S. HochbergJ.D.Judge1975
Frederick J. MartoneLL.M.Judge1975
Ricardo H. HinojosaJ.D.Judge1975
Colleen McMahonJ.D.Judge1976
Dan A. PolsterJ.D.Judge1976
Patti B. SarisJ.D.Judge1976
Reena RaggiJ.D.Judge1976
Richard Gaylore StearnsJ.D.Judge1976
Robert Lewis HinkleJ.D.Judge1976
Thomas W. Thrash Jr.J.D.Judge1976
Amy Mil TotenbergJ.D.Judge1977
B. Lynn WinmillJ.D.Judge1977
Mark Allan GoldsmithJ.D.Judge1977
Merrick B. GarlandJ.D.Judge1977
Susan Laura CarneyJ.D.Judge1977
William Francis Kuntz IIJ.D.Judge1977
Michael ChertoffJ.D.Judge1978
Amy Berman JacksonJ.D.Judge1979
Beth Labson FreemanJ.D.Judge1979
John Glover Roberts Jr.J.D.Chief Justice1979
William Joseph Kayatta Jr.J.D.Judge1979
Christine M. ArguelloJ.D.Judge1980
Dale S. FischerJ.D.Judge1980
Geoffrey William CrawfordJ.D.Judge1980
John A. MendezJ.D.Judge1980
Lawrence Joseph VilardoJ.D.Judge1980
F. Dennis Saylor IVJ.D.Judge1981
Joseph A. Greenaway Jr.J.D.Judge1981
Matthew F. KennellyJ.D.Judge1981
Michael H. SimonJ.D.Judge1981
Richard J. LeonLL.M.Judge1981
Susan Oki MollwayJ.D.Judge1981
David C. GodbeyJ.D.Judge1982
Laura Taylor SwainJ.D.Judge1982
Philip Ray MartinezJ.D.Judge1982
Debra Ann LivingstonJ.D.Judge1984
Patrick Joseph SchiltzJ.D.Judge1985
Elena KaganJ.D.Associate Justice1986
Josephine L. StatonJ.D.Judge1986
Andrew Patrick GordonJ.D.Judge1987
Cormac J. CarneyJ.D.Judge1987
Cornelia Thayer Livingston PillardJ.D.Judge1987
Edgardo RamosJ.D.Judge1987
Michael Joseph JuneauJ.D.Judge1987
Paul Adam EngelmayerJ.D.Judge1987
Patricia Ann MillettJ.D.Judge1988
Vernon Speede BroderickJ.D.Judge1988
Denzil Price Marshall Jr.J.D.Judge1989
George Carol Hanks Jr.J.D.Judge1989
Gregory George KatsasJ.D.Judge1989
John Kenneth BushJ.D.Judge1989
Robert Leon WilkinsJ.D.Judge1989
Victor Allen BoldenJ.D.Judge1989
Wilhelmina Marie WrightJ.D.Judge1989
Derrick Kahala WatsonJ.D.Judge1991
Jacqueline Scott CorleyJ.D.Judge1991
Jane Louise KellyJ.D.Judge1991
Neil M. GorsuchJ.D.Associate Justice1991
Jennifer Walker ElrodJ.D.Judge1992
John Zihun LeeJ.D.Judge1992
Mark R. FilipJ.D.Judge1992
Cathy BissoonJ.D.Judge1993
John William HolcombJ.D.Judge1993
Katherine Polk FaillaJ.D.Judge1993
Lucy Haeran KohJ.D.Judge1993
Matthew Frederick LeitmanJ.D.Judge1993
Robert Michael Dow Jr.J.D.Judge1993
Andrew Lamar Carter Jr.J.D.Judge1994
David Jeremiah BarronJ.D.Judge1994
Denise Jefferson CasperJ.D.Judge1994
Raúl Manuel Arias-MarxuachLL.M.Judge1994
Theodore David ChuangJ.D.Judge1994
Kirk Edward SherriffJ.D.Judge1995
Sherilyn Peace GarnettJ.D.Judge1995
Kenly Kiya KatoJ.D.Judge1996
Ketanji Brown JacksonJ.D.Associate Justice1996
Andrew George SchoplerJ.D.Judge1997
Julie RikelmanJ.D.Judge1997
Kevin Christopher NewsomJ.D.Judge1997
Nina Nin-Yuen WangJ.D.Judge1997
Stephanie Agli GallagherJ.D.Judge1997
Joshua David WolsonJ.D.Judge1999
Thomas Lee Kirsch IIJ.D.Judge1999
Ana Cecilia ReyesJ.D.Judge2000
J. Philip CalabreseJ.D.Judge2000
Jonathan Allen KobesJ.D.Judge2000
Kenneth Kiyul LeeJ.D.Judge2000
Tiffany Patrice CunninghamJ.D.Judge2001
Dominic William LanzaJ.D.Judge2002
Sanket Jayshukh BulsaraJ.D.Judge2002
Rita Faye LinJ.D.Judge2003
Stephen Henley LocherJ.D.Judge2003
Andrew Stephen OldhamJ.D.Judge2005
Jia Michelle CobbJ.D.Judge2005
Lawrence James Christopher VanDykeJ.D.Judge2005
Lee Philip RudofskyJ.D.Judge2005
Andrew Lynn BrasherJ.D.Judge2006
Micah William Janso SmithJ.D.Judge2006
Patrick Joseph BumatayJ.D.Judge2006
John Frank MurphyJ.D.Judge2007
Justin Reed WalkerJ.D.Judge2009
Julia Eleanor KobickJ.D.Judge2010
Amir Hatem Mahdy AliJ.D.Judge2011
Bradley Nelson GarciaJ.D.Judge2011
Zachary Maxwell BluestoneJ.D.Judge2016
Andrew Gordon MagrathJudge
Benjamin Robbins CurtisAssociate Justice
Francis Gordon CaffeyJudge
George GrayJudge
Henry Billings BrownAssociate Justice
J. Spencer BellJudge
James Marshall CarterJudge
Kimbrough StoneJudge
Ruth Bader GinsburgAssociate Justice
Stanley Nelson BarnesJudge
Victor Baynard WoolleyJudge
William Henry MoodyAssociate Justice

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