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President George W. Bush nominated John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 to be the 17th Chief Justice of the United States Monday. If the Senate confirms him, Roberts will become the first graduate of Harvard College or Harvard Law School (HLS) to serve as chief justice...
Roberts has experienced a meteoric rise to the top since he arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1973. He graduated summa cum laude in History in just three years and went on to graduate magna cum laude from HLS while serving as the Managing Editor of The Harvard Law Review. He went on to clerk for Circuit Judge Henry Friendly and Rehnquist, when Rehnquist was an associate justice on the Supreme Court...
...Harvard Law School (HLS) are also splitting the costs of a summer-long renovation of the HLS Hemenway...
...Looking back on it from this vantage point, if you had to make a list of people [at HLS] that who would be plausible choices for becoming a justice, he would be on the list,” said Robert I. Kantowitz, who served as executive editor at the Law Review alongside Roberts and shared an office with him. “Lots of people were smart and talented, but he had the whole package...
After graduating from HLS, Roberts went to Washington, where he clerked for Rehnquist, who at the time was an associate justice on the Supreme Court. He also clerked for Circuit Judge Henry Friendly, a well known jurist with a non-ideological reputation and to whom Roberts is often compared...