Law Clerks

Supreme Court Clerks for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

Justice O'Connor hired four law clerks per year during her time as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. Each clerk serves for one year and completes critical legal work, including researching the background behind cases, making recommendations and arguments on how they should be decided, and writing drafts of opinions. Click on any one of them below to see more information, including a list of opinions by Justice O'Connor during the term they worked at the Court.

Oona A. Hathaway

COURT TERM (OT): 1998
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale Law School

Sandra Slack Glover

COURT TERM (OT): 1998
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Assistant United States Attorney and Appeals Chief, United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut

Traci L. Jones (Lovitt)

COURT TERM (OT): 1998
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Partner, Jones Day

Bradley W. Joondeph

COURT TERM (OT): 1999
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Professor of Law, Santa Clara University

Noah A. Levine

COURT TERM (OT): 1999
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Partner, Wilmer Hale (New York)

Shirley D. Woodward

COURT TERM (OT): 1999
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): CIA intelligence officer; Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

Leslie A. Hakala

COURT TERM (OT): 1999
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Owner, Law Office of Leslie A. Hakala

Jennifer M. Mason McAward

COURT TERM (OT): 2000
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Associate Professor of Law and Director, Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School

Stanley J. Panikowski

COURT TERM (OT): 2000
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Partner, DLA Piper (San Diego)

Tamarra D. Matthews(-Johnson)

COURT TERM (OT): 2000
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Partner, Wilkinson Walsh Law Firm

Richard A. Bierschbach

COURT TERM (OT): 2000
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Dean, Wayne State University Law School (2017-Present); Vice Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University (2015-2016)

Carolyn Joanne Frantz

COURT TERM (OT): 2001
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Senior Counsel, Orrick