University or College Trained
These justices were educated at the equivalent of what would today be an undergraduate level, but did not receive legal education at the graduate level, the model under which law schools in the U.S. are currently organized.
- Brigham Young University
- George Sutherland – Also attended University of Michigan Law School
- Carleton College
- Pierce Butler
- Case Western Reserve University
- John Hessin Clarke
- Centre College
- Frederick Moore Vinson – Chief Justice
- College of Philadelphia
- James Wilson – also attended the Universities of St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, Scotland
- College of William and Mary
- John Marshall – Chief Justice
- Philip Pendleton Barbour
- Bushrod Washington
- John Blair
- Columbia University
- John Jay – Chief Justice
- Samuel Blatchford
- Emory University
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
- Middlebury College
- Samuel Nelson
- Princeton University – Princeton has no law school, but 11 Supreme Court Justices studied at the institution for their undergraduate work. Ellsworth, Paterson, and Pitney were college-trained at Princeton and did not attend law school.
- Oliver Ellsworth – Chief Justice
- William Paterson
- Mahlon Pitney
- William Johnson Jr
- Brockholst Livingston
- Smith Thompson
- James Moore Wayne
- John Marshall Harlan
- Samuel Alito Jr
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Elena Kagan
- Rutgers University
- Joseph P. Bradley
- Saint Joseph's University
- Joseph McKenna – also took law courses at Columbia Law School but was not enrolled in a degree program
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Frank Murphy
- University of Georgia
- John Archibald Campbell
- University of Michigan
- William R. Day
- Washington and Lee University
- Thomas Todd
- Wesleyan University
- David Josiah Brewer (1851–1854, transferred to and graduated from Yale)
- Yale University
- David Josiah Brewer (transferred from Wesleyan University)
- William Strong
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