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John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 was sworn in as the seventeenth chief justice of the United States today after a 78-to-22 Senate confirmation vote, making him the first graduate of Harvard College or Harvard Law School (HLS) to lead the Supreme Court...
Roberts graduated from Harvard College in three years, earning a summa cum laude degree in history. He went on to HLS, where he served as the managing editor of the Harvard Law Review and eventually graduated magna cum laude...
...even deeper shade of Crimson. Six of the Court’s nine justices have ties to Harvard. David H. Souter ’61 graduated from the College, while Justices Souter, Stephen G. Breyer, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony M. Kennedy hold Harvard Law degrees. Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended HLS for two years before transferring to Columbia...
...late Chief Justice Rehnquist also held an M.A. in government from the University. Of the 109 justices in Supreme Court history, 18 have attended HLS, with 14 of these graduating...
Director of Communications at HLS Michael A. Armini said that he did not know of any plans to invite Roberts to campus, but added that he is “sure it will happen...