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Law Schools That Graduated Supreme Court Justices

There are certain things that today’s sitting Supreme Court justices have in common: All eight have law degrees from Ivy League universities, for instance. But over the last 100 years, the resumes of Supreme Court justices show a lot more variety in their academic backgrounds. U.S. News looked into where Supreme Court justices who were appointed between 1916 and 2016 earned their law degrees, and some interesting patterns emerged.

For one, until the 21st century, the majority of Supreme Court justices had a bachelor’s of law degree, commonly known as an LL.B., rather than a Juris Doctor degree, commonly known as a J.D. In the mid-1960s and early 1970s, U.S. law schools began to replace LL.B. programs with J.D. programs. Even though today a J.D. is the standard entry-level credential for lawyers, it is not a requirement to serve on the Supreme Court. For instance, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has an LL.B. from Columbia University, and former Chief Justice William Rehnquist had an LL.B. from Stanford University. Both ascended to the pinnacle of the legal profession without a J.D.

Another notable pattern is the high proportion of justices who earned their law degrees from elite law schools in the Northeast. Among the 46 justices who were appointed between 1916 and 2016, 25 received law degrees from Ivy League schools. However, over the past century, many justices have been appointed without an Ivy League law school pedigree, and six justices were appointed without law degrees. Among the six without law degrees, three attended law school without receiving a degree and three did not attend law school at all.

It used to be common for aspiring U.S. attorneys to apprentice for an experienced lawyer and learn about the law through work experience rather than in a school setting, and several Supreme Court justices chose this nonacademic route. The Supreme Court justices in the past century who did earn formal law degrees earned those degrees from a variety of schools, including state universities in the South and West. Two of the justices appointed in this past century earned two law degrees – Sherman Minton, who had both an LL.B. from Indiana University—Bloomington and an LL.M. from Yale University, and Lewis Powell, who had both an LL.B. from Washington and Lee University and an LL.M. from Harvard University. Below is a map of the schools where Supreme Court justices who were appointed in the past century earned law degrees, along with the school’s 2017 Best Law Schools ranking, if applicable.

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