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After a brief pause, Schumer repeated, “Professor Ford,” to which Roberts echoed, “Professor Ford.”
If confirmed as the seventeenth chief justice, Roberts will be the first graduate of Harvard College or Harvard Law School to hold that position, as well as the youngest chief justice in more than two centuries.
When John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 left Harvard College—graduating one year ahead of his class—a roommate surmised that the next time he saw Roberts, “it would be in a picture from the White House.”
But long before climbing the Washington ladder, Roberts was a straight-laced conservative in Leverett House with plans to preside over a lecture hall—not the nation’s highest court.
“He’s a very bright, very focused person who has always had a good sense of humor, hasn’t taken himself too seriously, and has been very accomplished—from graduating summa cum laude in three years to law school, clerkships, jobs...