Harvard Law Alumni on the U.S. Supreme Court
Post Date: July 21, 2005
Throughout history, 18 justices of the Supreme Court have attended Harvard Law School. (Fourteen graduated from the law school and four attended for a year or more.) The following is a list of the alumni and their years of service on the court:
Benjamin R. Curtis LL.B. 1832, served from 1851-57
Horace Gray LL.B. 1849, served from 1882-1902
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. LL.B. 1866, served from 1902-32
Louis D. Brandeis LL.B. 1877, served from 1916-39
Edward Terry Sanford LL.B. 1889, served from 1923-30
Felix Frankfurter LL.B. 1906, served from 1939-62
Harold H. Burton LL.B. 1912, served from 1945-58
William J. Brennan Jr. LL.B. 1931, served from 1956-90
Harry A. Blackmun LL.B. 1932, served from 1970-94
Lewis F. Powell LL.M. 1932, served from 1971-1987
Antonin G. Scalia LL.B. 1960, serving from 1986-present
Anthony Kennedy LL.B. 1961, serving from 1987-present
David Souter LL.B. 1966, serving from 1990-present
Stephen G. Breyer LL.B. 1964, serving from 1994-present
John G. Roberts J.D. 1979, serving from 2005-present
Harvard Law School attendees (non-grads)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, attended 1956-58, serving from 1993-present
William H. Moody, attended 1876-77, served from 1906-1910
Henry Billings Brown, attended 1859, served from 1891-1906
Melville Weston Fuller, attended 1854-55, served from 1888-1910