List of Law Schools Attended By United States Supreme Court Justices - Four or More Justices

Four or More Justices

  • Harvard Law School – 19 alumni; 15 graduates
    • Harry Blackmun
    • Louis Brandeis
    • William J. Brennan, Jr.
    • Stephen Breyer
    • Henry Billings Brown – also studied law at Yale, did not receive law degree from either
    • Harold Hitz Burton
    • Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    • Felix Frankfurter
    • Melville Fuller – did not graduate; Chief Justice
    • Ruth Bader Ginsburg – graduated from Columbia Law School
    • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
    • Elena Kagan
    • Anthony Kennedy
    • William Henry Moody – did not graduate
    • Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. - LLM graduate
    • John Roberts – Chief Justice
    • Edward Terry Sanford
    • Antonin Scalia
    • David Hackett Souter
  • Yale Law School – 10 alumni, 8 graduates
    • Samuel Alito
    • Henry Billings Brown – also studied law at Harvard, did not receive law degree from either
    • David Davis
    • Abe Fortas
    • Sherman Minton - won a scholarship for post-graduate courses, attended Indiana University
    • George Shiras, Jr. - did not graduate
    • Sonia Sotomayor
    • Potter Stewart
    • Clarence Thomas
    • Byron White
  • Columbia Law School – 7 alumni, 4 graduates
    • Benjamin N. Cardozo – completed two years, did not graduate
    • William O. Douglas
    • Ruth Bader Ginsburg – also attended Harvard Law School
    • Charles Evans Hughes – Chief Justice
    • Joseph McKenna – studied at the law school, did not graduate
    • Stanley Forman Reed – also attended University of Virginia School of Law, did not graduate from either
    • Harlan Fiske Stone – Chief Justice

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