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.

Tali F. Farhadian (Weinstein)

COURT TERM (OT): 2004
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): General Counsel, Office of the Kings County District Attorney (Brooklyn)

Joshua A. Klein

COURT TERM (OT): 2004
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Deputy Solicitor General, California Department of Justice

Joel C. Beauvais

COURT TERM (OT): 2004
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Exelon

Amy N. Kapczynski

COURT TERM (OT): 2005
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale Law School

Benjamin J. Horwich

COURT TERM (OT): 2005
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Counsel, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

Alexander (“Sasha”) Volokh

COURT TERM (OT): 2005
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Associate Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law

Justin Driver

COURT TERM (OT): 2006
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Heidi Bond

COURT TERM (OT): 2007
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Author of historical romance novels under the pen name Courtney Milan

Isaac J. Lidsky

COURT TERM (OT): 2008
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Author; CEO; Only blind person to have served as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk

Joshua A. Deahl

COURT TERM (OT): 2009
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Associate Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Kristen E. Eichensehr

COURT TERM (OT): 2010
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Assistant Professor of Law, UCLA Law

Candice Chiu (Wong)

COURT TERM (OT): 2011
NOTABLE LATER ROLE(S): Litigation Associate, Bancroft (Washington, DC)